Practice and client management

Firm contributes five years of funding for top instructors

Viewpost, a B2B network for electronic invoicing, payments and cash management, has partnered with MasterCard issuer Comdata so its clients can pay suppliers via virtual credit card.

The New York firm, whose co-MPs both lost parents to the disease, participates in fundraising walks and donates $50,000 to the organization.

Taxaroo has relaunched its online tax preparation service as a tax practice management system.

Attracting new clients or selling new or additional services to existing clients, for the most part, is a learned skill.

A roundup of recent expansions, additions, new services and other news from firms across the country.

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee, Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, has introduced legislation to make changes in Social Security, including raising the retirement age.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that next tax season will begin on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, while warning some taxpayers to expect longer waits for their tax refunds.

You help your clients manage their business finances and scale up to the next level. But it’s just as important to help them close a business that’s no longer active.

Terry Putney, the CEO of Transition Advisers, talks with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood about making a cultural fit in a firm merger.

President-elect Donald Trump, who won the hearts and minds of millions of working-class voters, may help deliver a multibillion-dollar bonanza to America’s wealthiest families.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax stories.

Donald Trump must confront major tax issues when deciding what to do with his real estate empire and other businesses in order to avoid conflicts of interest as he assumes the presidency.

The House passed legislation this week enabling veterans who were injured in combat to recover any income taxes improperly collected by the Department of Defense on their disability severance payments.

Ohio Supreme Court votes to uphold Ohio’s Commercial Activity Tax against a Constitutional nexus challenge.

The Taxpayer Advocate Service is falling behind in implementing several recommended changes in its processes, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Koch Industries Inc., the influential private firm headed by billionaire Republican supporters Charles and David Koch, slammed a key element of the House Republicans’ plan to overhaul corporate taxes, saying it would raise prices for American consumers and “could be devastating” to the economy.

McDonald’s Corp. shrugged off Brexit by announcing plans to switch its non-U.S. tax base to the U.K., ditching tiny Luxembourg where its fiscal arrangements are under attack from European Union regulators.

The personal finance company Credit Karma has debuted Credit Karma Tax, an online self-directed tax preparation service that provides free federal and state tax preparation, along with free electronic filing, for Credit Karma members.

KPMG has released a report providing an overview of the tax reform process in Washington, D.C., as the incoming Trump administration prepares to push for the biggest tax overhaul in three decades with Republicans dominating both houses of Congress and the executive branch of government next year.