Tax tools

Identity theft protection company LifeLock is reaching out to the Internal Revenue Service and offering technology to protect taxpayers against the threat of tax fraud.

Sage North America has partnered with cloud-based sales tax automation service provider Avalara to form the Accountants Resource Center for Sage Accountants Network members.

Uncertainty lingers over whether Congress will extend all or some of the tax cuts and incentives set to expire at the end of the year.

The Internal Revenue Service saved approximately $10.2 million in equipment costs in fiscal year 2011 by implementing virtual server technology, according to a new government report.

CCH Small Firm Services and the National Association of Tax Professionals have expanded the benefits they are offering to tax and accounting professionals from their partnership.

New River Innovation has released Beyond415 version 2.2, the latest version of its flagship software for post-filing issues, which includes an updated interface, client gateway, expandability and additional reporting features.

BNA Software, a Bloomberg BNA business, has launched BNA Income Tax Planner Web, an online version of the company’s income tax software that provides several new features and lower maintenance costs.

Julie and Brett Redden are in a hurry for the paperwork to go through for the six-year-old girl they are planning to adopt from China.

In a decision that could have far-reaching impact, an Illinois state court judge has ruled that the state’s Amazon law, passed to tax online sales of instate affiliates, is unconstitutional.

CCH has added two new treatises on estate planning and research and development tax incentives to its CCH Expert Treatise Library.

Intuit saw an 11 percent increase in per-unit sales of its TurboTax Online product.

Teresa Mackintosh has joined CCH as executive vice president and general manager of tax. She will head CCH's Tax business unit, serving tax professionals in accounting firms.

Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has renewed and expanded its agreement with the Tax Executives Institute, an international association of 7,000 corporate tax professionals.

Bloomberg BNA has published the latest edition of its “Tax Essentials: Individuals” reference as both a printed book and an e-book that can be downloaded from Apple’s iBooks store.

CCH has reorganized its publishing groups, creating and eliminating several positions at the accounting and tax research and software provider, while focusing more on the company's mobile technology development.

CCH plans to introduce a new Open Integration Platform to enable customers and outside vendors to integrate their applications and customized software with CCH’s cloud system.

CCH has introduced CCH Integrator, which combines the company’s tax research products with other tax compliance products for multinational corporations.

Baby Boomers nearing retirement age will have many factors to consider in choosing where to live in retirement, including state taxes, according to CCH tax experts.

Thomson Reuters has released ONESOURCE Property Tax version 9.5, a Web-based offering that now supports Microsoft SQL Server, allowing tax professionals to leverage data from other systems for access to all property tax related information.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has entered into an agreement with automated document generation product developer HotDocs Corp. to develop applications for the Thomson Reuters Checkpoint online information system.