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Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The CPA, consultant and Business Learning Institute Thought leader has set out on a 2,826 mile cross-country journey where he will walk from San Diego, Calif. to Ocean City, Md.

Almost everyone uses Facebook to connect with friends and family. And YouTube is the place for sharing and watching videos. Great for fun, but not for real work. Have you ever considered bringing people together “socially” like YouTube or Facebook—but for getting work done, instead of avoiding it?

Financial losses from social media are among the top concerns of internal auditors, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving the Mega Millions jackpot some serious competition, with tax refunds totaling $760 million ready to be handed over to an estimated 918,600 taxpayers who did not file a federal income tax return for 2010.

The NAEA’s collection of ridiculous things tax clients believe

The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has held a pair of family estate executors liable for the unpaid taxes of the estate.

Epicor Software Corporation and CPA firm Plante Moran announced a strategic alliance to deliver the next-generation enterprise resource planning solution to the firm’s growing manufacturing client base.

A majority of public companies may be able to avoid the need to file their financial reports using Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, technology if a congressional bill gets signed into law.

Americans' confidence in their ability to afford a comfortable retirement has recovered slightly from the record lows of the past five years, primarily among those participating in retirement plans, but overall their actual preparations for retirement haven't improved, according to a new survey.

The majority of small-business owners expect to see a bigger return on investment from technology than from new employees this year, according to a new survey.

An Internal Revenue Service employee took home a computer thumb drive containing unencrypted data on 20,000 fellow workers, the agency said in a statement.

CCH is warning participants in the NCAA college hoops March Madness brackets that any of their winnings in the office pool will be subject to taxes.

With data breaches estimated to cost an average of $5.4 million per incident, businesses need to be aware of five office tools that are particularly vulnerable, according to experts.

When your nonprofit clients understand the conditions that lead to fraud, they are better equipped to reduce risk.

New York State has been going after tax evaders under an aggressive new tax collection program, suspending the driver’s licenses of 8,900 New Yorkers who failed to pay their state taxes and collecting over $56 million, 34 percent more than had been projected.

A federal court may allow the convicted former chief of a telecommunications company to deduct more than $44 million from his taxes after he was forced to forfeit the amount of stock gains he realized from insider trading.

Thomson Reuters has integrated its UltraTax CS tax prep software with its AdvanceFlow cloud-based engagement management software.

Consumer finance site WalletHub has released a report on the states with the highest and lowest taxes.

The American Institute of CPAs has released a list of 10 suggestions for individual taxpayers and their preparers filing tax returns this season.