Practice and client management

Last week I moderated an Accounting Today Web Seminar on Tax Office Workflow.

President Barack Obama urged middle-class families who are in danger of seeing their taxes go up next year to begin using Twitter and other forms of communication to urge lawmakers to extend tax cuts for the middle class.

The U.S. Treasury Department and Mexico’s Ministry of Finance have struck a bilateral agreement to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act requiring financial institutions to report the holdings of U.S. and Mexican taxpayers to each other’s tax authorities.

I've never come out on one side or the other with cloud computing, but given my recent experience producing print and electronic content in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, I can say I'm a cloud fan.

Katie Tolin, marketing director at Rea & Associates, talks with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody about how accounting firms can set themselves apart from the competition.

A recent federal appeals court decision has same-sex couples taking note. In Windsor v United States, the court allowed an estate tax marital deduction to the surviving spouse of a same-sex couple, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act definition of marriage as unconstitutional.

Tax Preparer Solutions, a provider of online income tax filing solutions, has launched two software products: Preparer Direct and the TPS White Label Platform, both designed to let distribution partners to provide consumer tax preparation and filing services to customers.

Sage North America, Intacct, and SugarCRM partner Faye Business Systems Group became the latest addition to the national reseller marketing network ERPVAR.com, with the primary goal of promoting its various integration offerings for the publishers it represents.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has revived his calls for increased taxes on the wealthy in the op-ed pages of The New York Times.

A new White House report from the President’s Council of Economic Advisers predicts that allowing tax rates for the middle class to rise and failing to patch the alternative minimum tax would have a negative impact on consumer spending and retailers alike.

We are obviously fans of creating a strong content marketing strategy for professional services firms.

Small tax-exempt organizations that have not filed returns with the Internal Revenue Service for three years will not automatically lose their tax-exempt status if they were affected by Hurricane Sandy.

The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that the governments of the U.S. and Denmark have reached a bilateral agreement to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act to improve international tax compliance.

A Bronx tax preparer has been charged with 46 counts for filing tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service and New York State that contained more than $7 million in fraudulent tax deductions and credits, resulting in over $2.5 million in fraudulent tax refunds.

A New Jersey woman who owned a tax preparation business was sentenced to 18 months in prison for filing false tax returns on behalf of her clients and herself, resulting in a tax loss of nearly $200,000.

Grant Thornton is offer some year-end tax planning tips for both individuals and businesses, and their accountants, facing the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.

BDO USA CEO Wayne Berson talks with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood about the firm's two recent mergers with Argy, Wiltse & Robinson and Asher & Co., and the firm's future plans for expansion.

The Internal Revenue Service has raised the standard mileage rates by 1 cent per mile for next year when calculating the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.

InOrder ERP software developer Morse Data Corp. has published a new white paper designed to give readers an in-depth overview of how to successfully manage a months- or year-long ERP software implementation.