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The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new Affordable Care Act Tax Provisions site at IRS.gov/aca to educate individuals and businesses on how the health care law might affect them.

Thomson Reuters has entered into an agreement with Claims-X-Change to provide a Web-based tool to perform nondiscrimination testing of employer-sponsored benefit plans, accessible through its Checkpoint research platform.

Weyrich, Cronin & Sorra, Chartered and Chesapeake Accounting & Bookkeeping Service Inc. have agreed to merge.

Under some circumstances, the provision of services by a corporation to its shareholders is “property” within the meaning of Code Section 317(a), which can result in the IRS finding that there was a constructive dividend to the shareholder.

The Internal Revenue Service has combined parts of several revenue procedures into a new revenue procedure that provides relief to companies that make late elections to become S corporations.

The Motion Picture Association of America has resolved a dispute with Chinese authorities over value-added tax payments that had held up payment for Hollywood movies distributed in China.

AccountMate Software Corp. has formed a strategic partnership with AvidXchange to allow channel partners to help their customers automate their entire accounts payable and payment processes.

Ernst & Young has donated its historical archives dating back to the early 1900s to Case Western Reserve University.

Financial close software developer BlackLine Systems has received a round of investment led by Silver Lake Sumeru to help support the company's global growth strategy.

The American Institute of CPAs has written to the heads of Congress’s main tax-writing committee expressing its opposition to a proposed limitation on the use of the cash method of accounting for partnerships, S corporations, personal service corporations and farmers.

A majority of large U.S. corporate pension plans were underfunded at the end of 2012, but Fitch Ratings said Thursday it believes funding levels at mid-year have improved with recent discount rate increases and strong equity market performance.

Tax research publisher Tax Analysts has filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service, asking a federal court to force the agency to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request and provide training materials used for its guidance in exempt organizations determinations.

I had long suspected that there was a strong disconnect between CPA partners’ perceptions about practice growth initiatives and their actions and behavior.

House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany, R-La., has asked the Government Accountability Office to assess how the Internal Revenue Service examines tax-exempt organizations in the aftermath of recent scandals.

Accounting firm association PrimeGlobal announced Wednesday that Arthur Place, the managing partner of one of the firms in its association, died on Sunday.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the final regulations for how it will release tax return information to the Department of Health and Human Services to assess a taxpayer’s eligibility for help in buying health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

Hein & Associates has expanded its cloud solutions offerings though a new partnership with cloud-based business analytics product maker Adaptive Planning.

FreshBooks has released an Android app for service-based professionals with 1-10 employees who use devices on this mobile platform.

The Financial Accounting Foundation said Wednesday that it plans to start streaming audio from the public sessions of future meetings of its Board of Trustees.

SAP AG has released the SAP ERP Foundation Extension, a new offering designed to enable companies new to SAP to implement a system optimized to their specific needs, as well as deploy SAP more efficiently though their organization.