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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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A free guide for CPAs to sales and use tax has been released by sales tax technology provider SpeedTax.
January 27 -
The Internal Revenue Service is considering requiring some business taxpayers to report uncertain tax positions on their tax returns, according to Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglas Shulman.
January 26 -
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden previewed some of the major themes in the presidents upcoming State of the Union address, including a proposal to increase some tax credits for middle-class families.
January 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service listed the guidelines for the tax deductions that taxpayers can take for the contributions they make toward Haiti earthquake relief this year.
January 26 -
Switzerlands Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the agreement for UBS to disclose the identities of 4,450 U.S.-based taxpayers to the IRS violates the countrys banking secrecy laws.
January 25 -
BMG CPAs LLP has created iDonatedIt, an iPhone and iPod Touch application that calculates, tracks, and reports non-cash charitable donations.
January 25 -
Liberty Tax Service has taken a cue from the Subway sandwich shop chain and hired a Jared-like customer as the official spokesman for its eSmartTax.com online tax prep service.
January 22
