Practice management

H&R Block announced plans to reorganize the company, laying off 350 full-time employees in its Kansas City, Mo., headquarters and closing approximately 200 of its underperforming company-owned offices.

Looking to increase your business leads? Who isn’t? The best kind of lead is one that comes through a referral. While accountants always welcome referrals, they don’t always actively work to get them.

The House held a hearing Wednesday on the use of tax-advantaged health insurance accounts such as flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts for purchasing over-the-counter medications in the wake of the health care reform law.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a company in a significant tax-related ruling that limited the ability of the Internal Revenue Service to pursue taxpayers over tax shelter cases for more than three years, as opposed to six.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Monday on tax reform and its impact on state and local tax and fiscal policy.

In case your clients missed a pivotal tax deduction that could have saved them some serious cash, or you need to fix something on an old return to make sure your clients are in compliance with the IRS, filling out the Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return (Form 1040X) gives taxpayers and preparers another opportunity for an additional refund and potentially avoid headaches triggered by omissions and mistakes.

The U.S. Tax Court is a powerful but obscure institution that has been opening itself up to the public, but only very slowly, and it still lags behind other courts on access.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations relating to the deductibility of lodging expenses when not traveling away from home.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations on the treatment of gains recognized on stock in certain foreign corporations upon distributions.

The advocacy group Common Cause has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against the American Legislative Exchange Council, a tax-exempt organization that promotes business-friendly legislation.

A trip to the post office on Tax Day isn't the same as it used to be.

Lee Storey, the producer and director of an award-winning documentary about the singing group “Up with People,” scored a major victory for filmmakers in a ruling by the U.S. Tax Court.

CCH has added two new treatises on estate planning and research and development tax incentives to its CCH Expert Treatise Library.

The American Society of Tax Problem Solvers has launched a program with 70 of the group’s member firms to help returning combat veterans get their tax problems resolved.

The Internal Revenue Service said in an email to tax professionals Friday that the Freedom of Information Act requires the IRS to release certain information about Preparer Tax Identification Number holders.

The manager of an H&R Block branch in Southern California has been charged with using the identities of his former tax preparation clients to file false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a reminder to tax-exempt organizations not to include Social Security Numbers on publicly disclosed forms.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Sprint Nextel for over $300 million, accusing the wireless phone carrier of deliberately under-collecting and underpaying millions of dollars in New York state and local sales taxes on flat-rate access charges for wireless calling plans.

A Jersey City school teacher has been arrested by special agents working for the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division after he was charged with allegedly preparing fraudulent income tax returns for clients and failing to report some of the income he earned from preparing tax returns.

It’s been said that you can’t tell the players without a scorecard. Where I need a scorecard is to figure out which tax provisions expired at the end of 2011, and those slated to give up the ghost at the end of 2012. Luckily, the Joint Economic Committee has a Web site that lists all of the expiring provisions of recent memory, together with the dates they expired or will expire.