Tax

CCH has introduced an online service that promises to offer tax professionals a way to get faster access to client documents from the Internal Revenue Service.

An internal revenue agent has sued the IRS for firing her after she insisted on wearing a ceremonial knife on the job.

The latest economic stimulus plan advanced by the incoming administration may approach $1 trillion, with $300 billion in tax cuts or refunds.

The Private Company Financial Reporting Committee met with the Financial Accounting Standards Board to discuss some of the problems that led to deferring controversial rules for accounting for uncertainty in income taxes.

College students attending an Ernst & Young tax career event acknowledged they are seeing more interest on campus in accounting as jobs in the financial industry dry up.

Payroll processor SurePayroll is offering free payroll-processing services to accounting firms for up to one year.

The Internal Revenue Service has sent an advisory to caution taxpayers about how to choose a tax preparer and avoid preparer fraud.

The mausoleum set up by Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general named to succeed Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate by disgraced governor Rod Blagojevich, includes on a list of accomplishments the fact that he was the first non-CPA to be on the board of the Illinois CPA Society.

The Kansas Small Business Development Center has launched an enhanced Web site.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to offer several new ways to help people struggling to meet their tax obligations because of the recession, and will expand its Free File program to allow nearly all taxpayers to electronically file their taxes for free.