Practice management

The Internal Revenue Service has stepped up its efforts this tax season to combat identity thieves who steal taxpayers’ tax refunds, participating in a nationwide sweep that nabbed 389 identity theft suspects last month alone.

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the deadline for including mandatory language in consent forms that tax preparers are expected to send to clients before disclosing or using their tax return information.

For taxpayers who scrambled to make last-minute gifts at the end of 2012 to take advantage of the gift tax exemption and lower tax rate, it was a good thing to do despite the fact that within 23 hours of year’s end, legislation passed averting the return to the old-law $1 million exemption and 55 percent maximum tax rate.

Sir Ken Robinson, a speaker and author with expertise on education, creativity and innovation, describes how firms can follow the model of Zappos in getting staff members more engaged with the firm, during an interview with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee at the Winning Is Everything conference in Las Vegas.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress in the management of its employees but faces continued challenges, according to a new report.

The U.S. Postal Service said Wednesday that it will end Saturday delivery of letters starting in August, but will continue to deliver packages, in an effort to cut costs.

Theodore J. Flynn, the longtime president and CEO of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs, plans to retire at the end of 2013 after 43 years of leading the organization.

State budgets across the country collectively lost an estimated $40 billion in tax revenue due to corporations and individuals shifting their profits and income to offshore tax havens, according to a new report.

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President Obama urged Congress to agree on a combination of tax reform and spending cuts to achieve deficit reduction during a speech Tuesday in which he proposed an alternative to the drastic automatic spending cuts that were part of the budget sequester deal.

U.S. financial institutions may see their reporting burdens rise as a result of a law designed to prevent taxpayers from hiding funds offshore.

The Internal Revenue Service is telling taxpayers to check the qualifications of tax preparers and their history in the aftermath of a stinging defeat in the court.

What has almost 4 million words and is one of the most complex and least transparent documents of the century? Our Tax Code.

Sunday marked the 100th birthday of the U.S. federal income tax with the passage of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution on Feb. 3, 1913.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax preparers to include complete Earned Income Tax Credit checklists with any tax returns they file claiming the tax credit.

The IRS has re-opened its PTIN management and registration site.

In addition to all the usual difficulties of tax season, some preparers are saying that glitches have appeared in their tax prep software as the filing season kicks off.

A federal judge has denied the Internal Revenue Service’s request to suspend his January 18 ruling that struck down the IRS’s tax-preparer scheme as unlawful, but made some important clarifications in a ruling he issued last month.

The Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy has released the fourth edition of its report, “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States,” which claims that in almost all state tax systems, middle- and low-income families pay a greater share of their income in tax than wealthy families.