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Only 22 percent of corporate finance and accounting executives are satisfied with the training options available to their employees, according to a new survey by KPMG.

The Treasury Department said it is engaging with more than 50 countries and jurisdictions across the globe to improve international tax compliance and implement the information reporting and withholding tax provisions in the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

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FreshBooks has released an iPad app designed for service-based professional businesses with 1 to 10 employees who use this Apple device.

It may be some time before Congress and the Obama administration decide what to do about the tax rates for next year, so it’s a good idea to plan for various alternative scenarios just in case.

CCH Small Firm Services and Burlington, Vt.-based Evolution by iSystems have partnered to offer payroll services to tax and accounting professionals using the Evolution Payroll, HR and tax management system.

“The world has dramatically changed,” said Jon Baron, Thomson Reuters’ managing director of professional tax and accounting, during his keynote kicking off the 32nd annual Thomson Reuters SYNERGY Users’ Conference for Professional Tax & Accounting Firms in Grapevine, Texas.

Corporate enterprise tax software provider Vertex Inc. has released Vertex Tax Accounting, a product designed to improve global provisioning as well as provide a source for modeling tax planning strategies.

Ellie Baker, co-founder of Baker Newman Noyes, has been selected as the firm's new managing principal.

CCH has introduced the new weekly electronic publication, Global Tax Weekly – A Closer Look, which promises to provide up-to-date analysis and insights into international tax developments.

More than three years after the official end to the recession considered the worst since the Great Depression, U.S. businesses are recovering but not recovered.

The election results, while no surprise, have pretty much left us where we were in terms of tax policy, according to Roger Harris, president of Padgett Business Services.

In one of his last appearances before his departure on November 9, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman touched on a number of issues confronting the service and the accounting profession in general.

In the aftermath of the elections, the payroll tax cut appears to be one of the likely casualties of the scramble to resolve questions over expiring tax cuts and the looming fiscal cliff during the lame-duck session of Congress.

In the wake of Sandy, the IRS has unveiled programs to help victims of the hurricane.

Cloud-based sales and use tax automation provider Avalara is making plans to establish a more international presence, eying regional and country-specific offices - the first of which is currently being established in London.

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The Ohio Society of CPAs has appointed Scott Wiley as president and CEO.

The chances for comprehensive tax reform occurring in the wake of Tuesday’s elections are murky at best, with a divided Congress and a re-elected President who has been unable to persuade Republicans to support his tax policies.