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President Obama appealed to Congress to balance tax reforms with spending cuts to avoid the painful automatic cuts imposed by the budget sequester deal.
February 19 -
BizLogr Inc. today unveiled MileLogr, an Internet service designed to help taxpayers get tax deductions for the business use of a car by figuring out the distances driven from data in the users calendar.
February 19 -
Calibre CPA Group PLLC has merged Levinson Simon Hein & Bilkey PC into its practice. Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed.
February 19 -
Acumatica has hired former Microsoft Dynamics channel executive Christian Lindberg to the position of vice president of partner solutions, specifically charged with growing the companys ISV channel.
February 19 -
The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that taxpayers need to report Roth individual retirement account conversions from 2010 on their returns this tax season.
February 19 -
An advocacy group and a former congressional candidate have filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service in an effort to force the IRS to enforce its laws prohibiting tax-exempt 501(c)4 groups from engaging in political activity.
February 19 -
Members of Congress have re-introduced legislation aimed at pressuring online Web sites to charge sales taxes to out-of-state customers, combining three competing bills that were introduced in the previous congressional term.
February 19 -
Online accounting software company Xero now offers bank reconciliation on both Apple iOS and Android devices.
February 19 -
CaseWare IDEA and its U.S. distributor Audimation Services Inc. released their IDEA Version Nine audit analytics product with improved analysis and integration features.
February 19 -
Intuit has unveiled its iPad app for QuickBooks Online, which packages the most commonly used business tasks from the Web product and integration with the camera, contacts, push notifications and location services on the mobile device.
February 19 -
The Internal Revenue Service spent about $1.1 million in fiscal year 2011 on 754 BlackBerry smartphones and 13,878 wireless aircards that were not used for three months to a year, according to a new report.
February 19 -
Jack Pohlman has been named a partner and shareholder at Wiltshire, Whitley, Richardson & English PA.
February 19 -
The American Institute of CPAs has written to the Internal Revenue Service expressing its concerns about delays in issuing crucial tax forms.
February 15 -
There is no doubt that the current U.S. Tax Code needs to be seriously reformed. It has grown to become a convoluted mess.
February 15 -
The Indiana CPA Society has released a second white paper on the topic of the future of competency for CPAs, prepared by a board-level task force on that subject.
February 15 -
Legislation has been introduced in Georgia to give the Georgia State Board of Accountancy its own executive director and staff, along with greater financial and operational autonomy, to bring it in line with other state boards of accountancy.
February 15 -
Accounting firm BlumShapiro said Alfred Rosenthal, CPA, a founding partner of the firm, died peacefully in his home surrounded by his loving family and caregivers on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at a vibrant 92 years of age.
February 15 -
A New Jersey tax preparer has been arraigned for allegedly preparing false tax returns designed to bring larger tax refunds for her clients.
February 15 -
A former Internal Revenue Service revenue agent has pleaded guilty to theft of public funds after she was discovered to have inflated the amount of time and travel she spent on cases.
February 15 -
A California man agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with people at Bank Leumi Le-Israel Ltd. and another Israeli bank to hide offshore accounts and income from the Internal Revenue Service, according to U.S. Justice Department court filings and a person familiar with the matter.
February 15