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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has introduced a bill aimed at extending tax relief to Americans in danger of losing their homes.

As companies continue to experience an increase in the frequency of tax-related audits, due to sales and use tax complexity, new levels of enforcement and other factors, they are experiencing a corresponding impact on the efficiency of their tax departments.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has acquired BizActions, expanding the company’s marketing services.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board heard testimony from a series of high-profile auditing experts on the advantages and disadvantages of requiring companies to rotate their auditing firms on a regular basis.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added a new item to its agenda to revise the accounting standards for repurchase agreements in response to the problems that led to the collapse of MF Global.

The International Federation of Accountants has published a paper calling for enhanced financial management transparency and accountability in the public sector, especially in the midst of the sovereign debt crisis.

The Financial Accounting Foundation has published a learning guide for the FASB Accounting Standards Codification system to help accountants learn their way around the relatively recent system for organizing U.S. GAAP standards.

More Americans are feeling optimistic about their retirement savings, according to a new survey.

A bill advertised as creating jobs at small businesses and increasing their access to capital from the public markets would also knock down many of the auditing controls protecting investors.

KPMG names nat'l banking and finance leader

The Internal Revenue Service is staffing up with high-powered talent to crack down on companies shifting profits from country to country to lower their tax bills, a hot strategy the agency has targeted before with only limited success.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeing security risks to internal auditors, along with economic uncertainty and regulatory risks.

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., has introduced a Republican-backed alternative to the Obama administration’s fiscal 2013 budget, including a proposal to consolidating the current six individual income tax brackets into just two brackets of 10 and 25 percent.

The accounting scandal at snack maker Diamond Foods in recent months may have shocked shareholders and some California walnut farmers.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided against undertaking a separate project to revise a controversial standard to account for uncertainty in income taxes.

Tax resolution chain TaxMasters has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

IMGCAP(1)]Organizations globally have incredible technology needs.

A former Internal Revenue Service revenue agent has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his involvement with a scam that bilked investors out of more than $8 million by persuading them to buy unregistered securities in various Internet companies.

The phrase “consumerization of IT” could not be used enough by Microsoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner and Dynamics president Kirill Tatarinov, as they claim this is the largest driving force behind their product directions over the foreseeable future, particularly the business applications in its Dynamics line.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations that would require taxpayers with Employer Identification Numbers to periodically provide the IRS with up-to-date information.