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Tax season is finally over. For many, now is a time for some relaxation before ramping back up for summer work.

Thomson Reuters has introduced a Checkpoint Learning Health Care Reform Certificate Program for tax and accounting professionals.

Self-created obstacles to accounting firm growth

The IRS is holding up its end of the chore of filing implications created by the ACA, according to Commissioner John Koskinen’s tax day testimony before a Senate committee.

A tax preparer in Queens, N.Y., has pleaded guilty to 38 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns and four counts of filing false personal income tax returns.

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

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The Web series Nacho Punch recently posted a funny new video for Tax Day satirizing trailers for romantic comedies, this one involving an accountant named Beth and a hapless taxpayer named Ben who fall in love over his taxes.

Scott Fleszar of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting talks with Dan Hood of Accounting Today about how accountants should deal with younger consumers who are accustomed to using mobile devices and Web-based services.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed a $70,000 tax lien against Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor at Wake Forest University and host of an eponymously titled cable TV news and talk show on MSNBC.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have re-introduced legislation that would ban federal contracts for companies that move their headquarters overseas, but only on paper, in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democratic member on the Senate Finance Committee, has introduced legislation to support health coverage for unemployed and retired workers.

The U.S. House voted this week to keep the Internal Revenue Service from hitting the nation’s wealthiest mega-donors with gift taxes for their political contributions.

Scott Fleszar of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting discusses how accountants and tax practitioners can continue to provide value to their clients as advisors, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The candy-maker Mars Inc. rolled out a tongue-in-cheek video this week in time for Tax Day to commemorate a 2013 Tax Court decision in which the court ruled against a taxpayer who tried to write off the cost of a Snickers bar as a tax deduction.

It’s no surprise that tax rates affect economic behavior.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to let taxpayers deduct state sales taxes on their federal returns, a victory for residents of Texas, Florida and other states that lack an income tax.

A new study of consumer spending of tax refunds finds a correlation between how the refunds are perceived and whether taxpayers opt to spend the money right away or save it for later.

The U.S. House voted to repeal the 99-year-old U.S. estate tax amid a partisan clash over whether the government should break up concentrated wealth or make it easier to pass along assets to the next generation.