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Tax News & IRS Insights for Accounting Professionals
Accounting Today delivers news and analysis for accounting and tax professionals on federal and state tax developments, IRS guidance,information reporting, and operational implications for practices and clients. Our coverage focuses on legislative and procedural shifts that tax practitioners must monitor in planning, compliance, and advisory contexts.
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CCH has added two new treatises on estate planning and research and development tax incentives to its CCH Expert Treatise Library.
April 23 -
Intuit saw an 11 percent increase in per-unit sales of its TurboTax Online product.
April 23 -
The manager of an H&R Block branch in Southern California has been charged with using the identities of his former tax preparation clients to file false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
April 20 -
Its been said that you cant tell the players without a scorecard. Where I need a scorecard is to figure out which tax provisions expired at the end of 2011, and those slated to give up the ghost at the end of 2012. Luckily, the Joint Economic Committee has a Web site that lists all of the expiring provisions of recent memory, together with the dates they expired or will expire.
April 19 -
The House has approved Republican-backed legislation to provide a tax cut of up to 20 percent for one year to companies with fewer than 500 employees.
April 19 -
The large differences in excise tax rates for various smoking products are prompting consumers with a tobacco habit to shift their smoking habits to pipes and larger cigars, according to a new government study.
April 18 -
Financial executives in the medical device industry say the new excise tax included in the health care reform law will take a major impact on reducing their bottom line, according to a new survey by KPMG.
April 18
