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Accounting firm-focused Web site maker FreeCustomWebsite.com has launched File Manager, an integrated client portal, as part of its suite of Internet-based accounting tools.

Enterprise resource planning product maker Epicor Software Corp. has released Epicor eMarketing and eSurveys tools as a Software-as-a-Service offering, providing customers with a deployment and licensing model as businesses continue to embrace the cloud.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has signed a deal with German authorities that will allow officials to conduct joint inspections of auditing firms in both the U.S. and Germany.

“Only two things in life are certain,” Marc Albaum tells his clients. “I can help you with the other one.”

Recent hires, promotions, awards, credentials and designations for staff and partners at accounting firms across the country.

Recent accounting firm activity

Taxpayers around the country are encountering longer wait times on IRS phone lines and at Taxpayer Assistance Centers due to budget cuts at the agency.

Jim Pitrat, the assurance and advisory practice leader at Top 100 Firm SingerLewak LLP, will become managing partner of the Top 100 Firm effective July 1, succeeding current MP David Krajanowski.

The Internal Revenue Service is having trouble coping with an enormous backlog of requests for offers in compromise from taxpayers who are struggling with the tough economy.

An Internal Revenue Service employee and her boyfriend have been charged with participating in a tax refund scam revolving around the Telephone Excise Tax Refund.

A top Swiss court ruled Switzerland may not hand over the bank details of a Credit Suisse client to U.S. tax authorities, in a potential setback to solving a dispute between the two countries.

Small business owners are losing some of their optimism and planning to do less hiring in the months ahead, according to a widely cited survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.

A new Internal Revenue Service team looking at the business activities of the ultra-wealthy has missed its own goals, reviewing only one privately held company and 10 partnerships in fiscal 2011, said a Syracuse University research group on Tuesday.

The Internal Revenue Service could increase its revenue by an estimated $20 million a year if it took steps to ensure that fraud indicators are recognized and properly investigated during field audits of individual tax returns, according to a new report.

Kevin McGrath has been selected to succeed Frank Arford as CEO of global accounting network Crowe Horwath International. Arford will be retiring at the end of June, and McGrath is due to take up his new post on July 1.

The Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board is urging Congress to restore recent budget cuts at the agency to improve enforcement and taxpayer service.

Cloud-based business intelligence platform provider Indicee Inc. has partnered with global cloud integration provider Pervasive Software to give customers and prospects access to Indicee analytics in the cloud with Pervasive’s cloud and on-premises data connectivity software.

I had the unexpected surprise yesterday of lunching with Karl Rove, known as the architect of President George W. Bush’s election campaigns.

President Obama told a crowd of students and supporters that Congress should vote to approve his plan to ensure that millionaires don’t pay lower tax rates than the middle class.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talked about how tax policies need to emphasize economic growth during a speech Tuesday, in which he also took aim at President Obama’s budget.