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The Internal Revenue Service has released the long-awaited final instructions for the 3.8 percent Net Investment Income Tax that was included as part of the Affordable Care Act.

Accounting firm awards, name changes and more…

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

When people get paid in cash, they don’t always tell their tax preparer right away – if at all.

A roundup of recent accounting firm mergers and acquisitions …

The need for training and a disaster recovery plan were the top concerns for member firms polled in accounting association CPAmerica International’s recently released Information Technology Benchmarking Survey.

After starting the year with a wobble, the accounting profession's expectations for economic growth remained uncertain, according to the February edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has drafted a proposed Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for State and Local Governments, listing the order of priority for the types of pronouncements that a state or local government should look to for guidance when preparing their financial statements.

G2 FinTech focuses on a technology niche of helping accountants automate the process of tax preparation for financial firms that need to deal with complex transactions such as wash sales and straddles on a regular basis.

Cloud-based nonprofit software developer Aplos Software has added the ability for nonprofits and churches to accept one-time and recurring donations online to its Aplos Donor Management solution.

If the tax reform proposal unveiled earlier this week by Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp is really “dead on arrival,” as some have suggested, why has virtually every organization with a stake in the tax process made an effort to comment on it? After all, it’s just a discussion draft.

Netsuite and Deloitte have formed an alliance to provide implementation, finance transformation, change management and consulting services to the market.

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

KPMG International has selected John B. Veihmeyer, the chairman and CEO of KPMG’s U.S. firm, as global chairman, succeeding Michael Andrew, who is retiring due to what has been described as a “serious medical condition.”

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that only three weeks after the opening of tax season, it has already received about one-third of the individual income tax returns it expects to receive in 2014.

I’ve heard it said more than once that “accounting is the language of business,” but as some of my colleagues who work in technology departments for their firms know, accounting and tax services can, at times, seem worlds apart from software and systems.

Swizznet's platform now gives customers the option for multi-factor authentication by adding support for Windows Azure Multi-Factor Authentication.

The International Federation of Accountants’ Professional Accountants in Business Committee has issued proposed guidance on supplementary financial measures such as EBITDA, free cash flow and underlying profit.

Martin Lack became the fourth ex-UBS AG banker to plead guilty to aiding wealthy Americans evade taxes, admitting that for 17 years he helped U.S. clients maintain secret overseas accounts.

For a plan unlikely to become law anytime soon, Representative Dave Camp’s proposal to revamp the tax code is causing a lot of agitation among U.S. companies.