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Members of NCCPAP, the National Conference of CPA Practitioners, made their views known to congressional staff and IRS officials during meetings in Washington D.C. last week.

The IRS is refunding test fees to those who took the Registered Tax Return Preparer test.

A phone call between a taxpayer and an Internal Revenue Service collection employee was broadcast on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show when the IRS employee accidentally put himself on hold after calling into Stern’s show.

The House of Representatives voted to revive the tax credit for corporate research and make it a permanent feature of U.S. law.

Improvements are needed to safeguard and protect employers that use payroll providers.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation in the House that would make the current adoption tax credit fully refundable.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a couple who owed more than $22,000 in unpaid taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, lost their case in Tax Court and then argued that the Tax Court violated the U.S. Constitution.

Yahoo! Inc. is pushing ahead with plans to spin off its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. after comments by the IRS triggered a share slump amid concerns the deal could hit a snag.

Any major changes to private equity’s most favored tax break won’t happen until 2017, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said.

In 2013, property taxes on real and personal property owned or leased by businesses accounted for the largest share of total state and local business taxes in the U.S.

House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., explained his tax reform plans Tuesday during a speech before the American Institute of CPAs at the AICPA’s Spring Meeting of Council in Washington, D.C.

Many tax preparers find themselves correcting goofs from clients’ previous preparers.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting’s CCH Small Firm Services has launched a new product bundle that combines tax preparation software with a range of other tools.

The IRS’s scrutiny of tax avoidance in offshore locations has discouraged bidders from taking over reinsurers, potentially reducing the companies’ value.

The American Institute of CPAs’ governing council approved a resolution authorizing the development of two new credentials for fair value measurement at the AICPA’s Spring Meeting of Council in Washington, D.C., on Monday.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

There are accountants who only do accounting and accountants who also do other things such as selling financial products and doing deals with the client. There is nothing wrong with this, but with some very minor exceptions, I never did the other things.

The Supreme Court struck down the state of Maryland’s practice of taxing a resident’s income that was earned and already taxed in another state without providing a full tax credit, ruling Monday that the practice violates the Constitution.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Finter Bank Zurich agreed to pay a $5.4 million penalty and become the third Swiss bank to settle under a U.S. program that lets firms avoid prosecution if they say how they helped American clients avoid taxes.