Practice management

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to reject appeals by EEOC staff to investigate and litigate against accounting firms about their mandatory partner retirement provisions, saying in a letter Monday that the classification of partners as employees would be disruptive to the accounting profession and its business practices.

The Internal Revenue Service will not meet the Treasury Department’s 2015 goal for full compliance with a directive requiring federal agencies to issue identification cards that allow workers to gain access to federally controlled facilities and information systems, according to a new government report that found IRS officials citing the lack of enough funding and staff as the main obstacles.

The Internal Revenue Service did not always issue a notice of its intent to issue a levy on taxpayer assets, according to a new report.

The federal government brought in $3.02 trillion in tax and other revenues in fiscal 2014 – its highest take ever.

Business clients see their accountant as a trusted resource with the knowledge and expertise to help them improve their business and avoid pitfalls.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to prevent improper claims for refunds of excess Social Security tax withholding, according to a recent government report.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

Tax preparers charge an average of $142 for a preparing a 1040 and up to an average of $566 for an 1120, according to a new survey from the NATP.

The IRS announced that professional tax preparers can now register for or renew their PTINs on IRS.gov.

A former UBS AG executive gave a primer on the workings of Swiss bank secrecy to a Florida jury hearing the tax-conspiracy trial of Raoul Weil, who once ran the bank’s global wealth-management business.

As a manager at a CPA firm, I am constantly looking to expand my network in search of developing new opportunities for my firm.

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

Creating a Chief Growth Officer or Chief Marketing Officer position is the trend among larger professional services firms today. It’s a good idea for yours, too.

The Internal Revenue Service paid approximately $33 million for paper tax records storage services in fiscal year 2013, and as of March 2014, and the agency had 5.42 million cubic feet of paper tax records stored at various Federal Records Centers across the country, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service did not always follow its own internal procedures for undelivered tax lien notices, according to a new government report.

Raoul Weil, once the head of UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, didn’t know that “rogue” underlings were helping Americans evade taxes, his lawyer told jurors at the start of a trial in Florida.

AbbVie Inc. may scrap or renegotiate its planned 32.4-billion-pound ($51.5 billion) deal for Dublin-based drugmaker Shire Plc, in what would be the biggest casualty of the U.S. crackdown on so-called tax inversions.

Ireland’s government will phase out a tax shelter used by U.S. companies from Google Inc. to LinkedIn Corp., amid mounting pressure from international authorities.

Accounting and consulting firm Moss Adams LLP has released its annual Year-End Tax Planning Guide outlining some of the key tax issues and potential pitfalls for next year.