Subject Root Tag

There weren’t a lot of surprises in the President’s Budget, set at $3.9 trillion for fiscal year 2015, which was released on March 4.

The Bitcoin world reacted with a mixture of acceptance and resignation to a Newsweek magazine report that the creator of the digital currency is a 64-year-old Japanese-American man living in the Los Angeles area.

For the last few weeks the accounting profession’s rumor mill has been buzzing with stories that Rothstein Kass is about to be acquired by KPMG. Is this all just a matter of frantic speculation, or could this rumor actually have some truth to it?

The Internal Revenue Service reported Thursday that more than 48 million tax refunds had been issued by the end of February, a 5.6 percent increase compared to the same period last year, with the size of the average tax refund also up.

nChannel has released its Sage Connector to help retailers, manufacturers and distributors better manage data between Sage 100 and e-commerce and other business systems.

The Internal Revenue Service has created a new video for YouTube that aims to provide useful tax tips for married same-sex couples.

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

Cloud accounting provider Kashoo has released a new update to their iPad app.

Payroll software provider SurePayroll blamed the cold winter weather for an apparent hiring freeze at small businesses in February.

Acumatica, cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions provider for small and medium-sized companies, has appointed Jon Roskill as chief executive officer.

The IFRS Foundation and the International Valuation Standards Council have signed a joint statement of protocols for cooperating on International Financial Reporting Standards and International Valuation Standards in the area of fair value measurement.

Business executives who are CPAs intend to do more hiring and business expansion in the year ahead, according to a new survey from the American Institute of CPAs.

SAP announced Wednesday new offerings for its SAP HANA cloud platform that include simplified pricing, deployment and accessibility options.

House Speaker John Boehner said an IRS official should be held in contempt if she continues to refuse to testify on the agency’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Program Office has issued its second annual program report on how LITCs help thousands of low-income taxpayers across the country with pro bono representation, education and advocacy services.

President Barack Obama is proposing more tax increases for U.S. multinational corporations, seeking ways to prevent them from avoiding taxes by exploiting gaps in international law.

Private sector employers added 139,000 jobs in February, according to payroll giant ADP, with the cold winter weather sapping the hiring numbers.

Paul Blowers has been named chief information officer at Plante Moran.

Technology services provider Brittenford Systems has published a new whitepaper addressing questions on upgrading QuickBooks accounting software to new cloud accounting solutions.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of expanding the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to include private firms that act as contractors and subcontractors for public companies, which could have major implications for accountants.