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The firms that benefit most are not treating AI as a replacement for the accountant's judgment. They are treating it as infrastructure: the parts that should have been automated years ago finally being automated.
July 10
University of Denver -
Using his personhood; SNAP redemptions; Ponzi-like payments; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
July 9 -
After decades of drawing in tens of thousands of new residents, Jersey City has suddenly found itself teetering on the financial brink.
July 9 -
Accounting firms have been fielding offers from a growing number of private equity investors as PE money continues to pour into the accounting sector.
July 9 -
If you have high-net-worth clients with capital gains, retire the old playbook for qualified opportunity zones. The program is now a recurring planning regime.
July 9
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Smolin, Lupin & Co. acquired Vitolo & Associates, expanding its advisory and accounting capabilities and growing its presence in New Jersey.
July 9 -
As many as 100 former and current staff members at the bank were swept up in the Cum-Ex tax probe.
July 9 -
AI has raised the bar for what counts as good service in clients' eyes, meaning the humans will need to up their game, perhaps through the use of AI.
July 9 -
Financial reporting and automation solutions provider Inscope announced a new release that uses agentic AI to produce a review-ready disclosure checklist.
July 9 -
If things continue at this pace, it won't be surprising if CPA firms have a 40-to-one agent-to-human ratio in the near future and need a new operating model.
July 9
BlackLine -
AI-coded apps are changing the dynamics between software vendors and accounting firms, but the market impact so far has been small.
July 9 -
The IRS provided an electronic way to file a protective claim for a possible tax refund related to the COVID-19 pandemic ahead of a July 10 deadline.
July 8 -
Final regulations identify charitable remainder annuity trusts as "listed transactions," akin to tax shelters that need to be disclosed to avoid penalties.
July 8 -
A new Automatic Exemption from Penalty process aims to provide relief for taxpayers with a history of usually filing and paying their taxes on time.
July 8 -
Judgment about property improvements used to be defined by personal biases and loose, anecdotal evidence. Financial tracking is changing that.
July 8
Ximplifi -
The Top 25 Firm acquired Mid-Atlantic Regional Leader Kreischer Miller in Horsham, Pennsylvania.
July 8 -
The protection against probes of past tax filings was part of a settlement in which Trump agreed to drop a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS.
July 8 -
AI is shifting the economics of build-versus-buy as more firms turn to apps created not by software vendors but by code generators such as Claude, Replit, or Cursor.
July 8 -
The billable hour was always just a stand-in for something harder to measure. AI has finally made that obvious.
July 8
Blue J -
The time saved by using AI is being eroded by the time spent verifying its outputs.
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