Practice and client management

The concept of quality governance practices within nonprofit organizations is not revolutionary. Historically, however, the role of those charged with the governance of nonprofit organizations - the board of directors - has not always been clearly defined.

Blogging has evolved from hobby of basement-dwellers to corporate mandate, shedding new light on previously guarded niches, subjects and industries - including the mysterious world of accounting.

IRS OFFERS RELIEF TO HURRICANE IRENE VICTIMS

As accountants and tax attorneys, we often find ourselves in conversation with our peers about the constitutionality of state taxation.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to take additional steps in order to expand its audits to include returns from prior or subsequent years when taxpayers being audited may owe substantial taxes.

The merchant card reporting program, in place since January of this year, may pose some problems that were unanticipated by Congress when it was passed as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.

The top factor in a failed hire, aside from performance issues, is a poor skills match, according to 36 percent of chief financial officers interviewed for a Robert Half Finance & Accounting survey.

A pair of executives in a California-based adult entertainment business have pleaded guilty to federal tax charges.

As multinational corporations and lobbyists push for a reduction in the corporate tax rate and a tax holiday on repatriated foreign profits, the tax loopholes that have encouraged companies to shift their income abroad have managed to stay largely intact.

A bipartisan trio of lawmakers have introduced a bill that would update the existing tax law to allow formerly homeless young people to pursue a four-year college education and still qualify for housing built with Low Income Housing Tax Credits.

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee demanded Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service suspend a proposed regulation that would require banks to disclose the amount of interest paid to nonresident aliens.

The Internal Revenue Service’s streamlined installment agreement program has brought in large amounts of revenue from people who owed back taxes, but at least 90,000 taxpayers using a streamlined installment agreement to pay back taxes may still owe the IRS after they complete the terms of their agreement.

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H&R Block said Monday that it plans to add another 100 franchise locations to its 11,000-office network.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain pulled off an upset victory in the Florida straw poll over the weekend, campaigning on his 9-9-9 plan to cut taxes.

A California tax preparer has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States after he was found using the Social Security numbers of deceased persons and stolen employer identification information.

CCH has issued a new Tax Briefing on President Obama’s new deficit reduction plan, with its $1.5 trillion in tax increases.

The plan for Economic Growth and Deficit Reduction recently released by President Obama offers a view into specific tax provisions that Congress may be asked to enact before the end of the year.

A tax preparer in the Bronx has been convicted by a jury on 43 counts, including corruptly impeding the enforcement of the tax laws, filing false tax returns for himself, and preparing numerous false tax returns for others.