Practice management

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More than four out of 10 working Americans will have had an accountant prepare their taxes this year, primarily because they believe that that's the way to get the largest refund. More than half won't do their own taxes, instead going to an accountant, friend or family member.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed a sharply worded reply with a federal appeals court to a group of tax preparers who won rulings from a lower court striking down the IRS’s authority to regulate the tax preparation profession.

The IRS claims that refunds totaling just over $917 million may be waiting for an estimated 984,400 taxpayers who did not file a federal income tax return for 2009. The IRS estimates that half the potential refunds for 2009 exceed $500.

Everybody knows the danger of sending things inadvertently in an email. Beda Singenberger’s case shows you also have to be pretty careful when you mail things the old-fashioned way.

Accounting and consulting firm Fuoco Group said Thursday that it is introducing a new Fuoco Commercial Funding business to help private and institutional investors access financing for real estate deals.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday they plan to begin developing a proposal for overhauling the nation’s Tax Code.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Private Companies Practice Section released the results of its 2012 PCPS Succession Survey not long ago, and it provides us with data from nearly 1,000 firms across the U.S. on how they are dealing (or not) with succession.

A majority of business leaders believe tax reform should be separated from reforms to government entitlement programs and deficit reduction, according to a new poll.

The Internal Revenue Service has found that changes in Form 8863, Education Credits, are delaying more than 600,000 tax returns, many of which appear to come from H&R Block.

A former Internal Revenue Service official has pleaded guilty to violating a criminal conflict of interest law and illegally disclosing confidential audit information while he was an IRS employee.

Ten multinational U.S.-based corporations, including Apple, Merck, Microsoft and Pfizer, each increased their foreign profits by $5 billion or more last year, continuing a trend in which U.S. corporations held more of their money in low-tax countries.

House Republicans and Senate Democrats are introducing competing budget plans with starkly different tax proposals.

The chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp R-Mich., released a set of proposals Tuesday discussion draft aimed at reforming the tax laws for small businesses.

The Internal Revenue Service has programs that are supposed to improve its ability to identify taxpayers who represent a potential danger to IRS employees, but many IRS employees are unaware that such protections even exist, according to a new government report.

A federal court has denied for a second time H&R Block’s attempt to prevent Intuit from airing two TV commercials for TurboTax that poke fun at part-time tax preparers who work for retail tax chains like Block.

The IRS recently made it clear that even if taxpayers engage a third party to perform a cost segregation analysis, they cannot avoid penalties for aggressive positions taken in the cost segregation report.

The former manager of an H&R Block outlet pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he used the identities of his former tax prep clients to file false tax returns seeking fraudulent tax refunds.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax practitioners that they cannot electronically file Form 8839, Qualified Adoption Expenses, this year, but instead must mail the forms to the IRS.

A law firm representing a trio of independent tax preparers has filed a strongly worded response to the Internal Revenue Service’s motion for a stay on a judge’s ruling that invalidated the IRS’s testing and continuing education requirements for tax preparers.