Practice management

Tax strategies to take your clients into the New Year.

Software, hardware & books for accountants.

Kovel agreements can help you protect clients' confidential information.

It's time to extinguish office disasters before they get out of control.

A roundup of recent mergers & acquisitions among accounting firms.

Are you driving away business?

It's time to embrace disruptive technologies.

A roundup of recent tax news.

With year-end 2014 fast approaching, certain strategies to reduce 2014 tax liability still remain viable.

Tech-savvy practitioners will stand out during filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding individuals and businesses making year-end donations that several important tax law provisions have taken effect in recent years regarding gifting.

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

With the holidays upon us and tax season almost here, now is the perfect time to check in with your clients to discuss their gift-giving plans for the rest of the year.

President Barack Obama’s threatened veto of a $400 billion-plus tax-break bill exposed a widening fault line within the Democratic Party.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to take action to resolve millions of dollars in so-called “frozen credit accounts” that are effectively in a state of limbo, preventing some taxpayers from receiving their tax refunds, according to a new government report.

President Barack Obama would veto a tax-break agreement being negotiated in Congress by Senate Democrats and House Republicans.

With only a few days remaining on Congress's 2014 legislative calendar, there is still no clear answer for whether and how Congress will deal with the nearly 60 "extender" tax provisions—the temporary provisions that have been routinely extended on a one- or two-year basis but were allowed to expire at the end of 2013.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice, regulations and other guidance related to the Affordable Care Act, including information on getting a hardship exemption from the individual mandate for health insurance coverage.

Holiday shoppers who are planning spending sprees at their local stores on Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend will be contending not only with door-buster bargains, but also with sales taxes, which in some states and localities can be much higher or lower than others.

Tax refund fraud associated with prisoner Social Security Numbers remains a growing problem for tax administration despite the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to curb it, according to a new government report.