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Memphis CPA firm Watkins Uiberall has teamed up with management consultancy J. William Appling & Associates to form Watkins Uiberall Strategic Consulting Group.

Many accounting firms and their clients are going to continue facing staffing shortages, so a great deal of attention will be paid on attracting and retaining talent. The focus so far has been primarily on entry-level and more senior staff with a few years’ experience. I believe that more firms and businesses will soon also be paying increased attention to retiring and soon-to be-retiring individuals.

The Internal Revenue Service has not always followed the proper procedures when resolving discrepancies in the money owed by taxpayers for the alternative minimum tax, according to a new report.

Intuit has introduced a light-hearted online rock-and-roll jingle generator for small businesses, featuring an Austin Powers look-alike named Tommy Silk.

A tax practitioner has teamed up with a software engineer to create a new tax prep program aimed at preparers who service Spanish-speaking taxpayers, especially undocumented immigrants who are ready to begin filing tax returns.

New Jersey taxpayers are stuck with the heaviest burden in state and local taxes, while Alaska taxpayers pay the least, according to a new study.

The Internal Revenue Service has given companies 30 days to agree to a settlement to close their tax shelters.

Wolf, Weis & Horowitz has merged into Kutchins, Robbins & Diamond, combining two Chicago-area firms.

The National Small Business Association has debuted a Web site intended to educate small-business owners about what it calls "the myriad harmful proposals being promoted by the IRS and Congress to raise revenue."

Troubled housing lender Freddie Mac posted its fourth consecutive quarterly loss and performed even worse than expected by analysts.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have issued a ruling to discourage companies from transferring pension plans to unrelated firms.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a guide sheet for organizations that maintain donor-advised funds to help safeguard against abuses.

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., accused the Internal Revenue Service of falling short on efforts to combat taxpayer identity theft.

The IRS's Taxpayer Advocacy Panel has released an annual report on its activities and recommendations for improving the Internal Revenue Service.

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled against a family's attempt to avoid taxes on $204 million in gain realized on the sale of their business by using a tax shelter.

When I am a loss for the subject of a column, all I have to do is go to the Internet and I quickly find something to write about. What I found is a SEC press release that states the SEC has charged a mutual fund manager with violating socially responsible investing restrictions in socially responsible mutual funds that investors were told would not contain securities issued by companies involved with producing weapons, alcohol, tobacco, or gambling products.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for an "emergency energy rebate" of $1,000 to be offered to families this fall, along with a $50 billion stimulus package to help jump-start job creation.

The Internal Revenue Service has seized over $24 million from two companies that were processing payments for an Internet gambling site, Bodog.com.

The 80 percent e-file goal, in place since it was proposed in the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, was a major contributing factor to the growth in electronic filing, despite the fact that it fell short of the 2007 deadline, according to the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board.