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The Internal Revenue Service is urging taxpayers to resist the urge to call the agency for answers to tax questions as it anticipates an avalanche of phone calls next week and is instead asking them to go online for help.
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Chinese affiliates of the four largest accounting firms have filed an appeal with U.S. regulators to reverse an administrative judges decision to bar them for six months after they stymied investigations of possible accounting fraud.
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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has launched GASB Outlook, a quarterly electronic newsletter designed to keep stakeholders informed about key GASB projects and activities.
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Small-business cloud accounting solution provider FreshBooks has released Journal Entries for QuickBooks and CSV, to make it easier for users to collaborate with their accountants.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has developed a new global standard for automatic exchange of tax information among nations in response to a mandate from finance leaders of the G20 countries to combat tax avoidance and evasion.
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Cloud-based accounting software developer Intacct and subscription commerce developer Zuora has released a connector that allows users to automate and streamline recurring billing and revenue recognition challenges.
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The California Tax Education Council is cautioning tax preparers that they still need to meet state-mandated requirements despite the Internal Revenue Services loss in its court appeal to regulate tax preparers.
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The New York State Society of CPAs is calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to tighten its proposed regulations on crowdfunding, arguing the proposals would loosen the rules to the detriment of unwary investors.
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The International Accounting Education Standards Board has released a paper on the development and management of written examinations for accountants.
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Sage North America has named Donald Deshaies vice president of channel management.
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Armanino LLP has welcomed long time industry leaders Theresa Brown, Ricardo Martinez and Jeremy Sucharski as partners of the firm
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Online accounting software provider Xero announced an expanded U.S. executive team and board of directors Wednesday, appointing Peter Karpas as chief executive officer in North America, Chris Liddell as chairman of the board and Bill Veghte as director of the board.
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The states of Arizona, Washington and New Jersey showed the strongest rates of growth in private sector employment in January, while New York lagged behind, according to payroll giant ADP.
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The late start to tax season will re-arrange software maker Intuit Inc.s revenues by about $120 million, according to the companys latest outlook, released Tuesday.
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Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, has reintroduced legislation to provide tax exemptions to American athletes who win medals in the Olympics.
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An Internal Revenue Service employee who also prepared taxes on the side has been charged with tax fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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Sage North America has released three new mobile solutions that connect with select Sage ERP systems to help businesses access their data from anywhere at any time.
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has excluded credit unions from the definition of public business entities, exempting them from certain reporting provisions under GAAP and giving credit unions more latitude to determine what their reporting requirements should be.
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Some locations of the Planet Fitness health club chain have begun charging some of their members a portion of the indoor tanning services tax mandated by the Affordable Care Act, whether or not they use the tanning services.
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