Tax practice

Staff need to develop and grow if firms are going to develop and grow.

Employees who work outside regular hours on their own business can bring valuable experience to a firm.

Become adept at using your time effectively and profitably at your firm.

Understanding client expectations leads to a better experience.

The Internal Revenue Service has begun offering online Tax Pro Accounts that practitioners can use for submitting an authorization request to an individual client’s own taxes online with the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched a campaign this summer to persuade tax professionals to improve their cybersecurity amid an escalating series of ransomware attacks around the world.

A pair of lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation to regulate tax preparers in the latest effort to ferret out unqualified preparers.

The extra funding will mainly be spent on product development.

Clients howl if invoices rise past a certain level, yet your firm’s services can suffer if it holds back in fear of their indignation. Here’s how to strike the right balance.

No, that’s not a typo. You can focus on five figures per hour once you know how best to leverage your time.

The Internal Revenue Service has been pilot testing new technology allowing for secure tax transcript retrieval that can integrate with an accounting firm’s practice management system.

Tax season has the largest concentration of clients and presents the best opportunity to find out what clients think about your services.

Considering how involved tax season is with its many moving parts, there is always room for some improvement.

If you think clients don’t notice when you ignore their messages or send them terse responses days after they’ve reached out to you, think again.

The Big Four firm has bought a large London-based firm that provides U.K. and U.S. personal tax services.

If employees are a company’s greatest assets, then children are a person’s greatest treasure.

If a picture’s worth 1,000 words, how much is a video worth?

Don’t just tell clients their returns have been submitted. Take them on a tour of the highlights.

Just getting through tax season is not a strategy.

If you don’t receive a five-star rating from a client, don’t get angry or brush it off.