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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 group of Democratic lawmakers has introduced a bill that would impose a temporary war surtax beginning in 2011 to pay for the war in Afghanistan.
November 24 -
The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit helped spur a 10.1 percent jump in sales of existing homes in October.
November 24 -
CCH and Grant Thornton have teamed up to produce IFRS Tax Manager, an online guide to International Financial Reporting Standards, aimed at helping tax, audit and accounting professionals comply with tax accounting and reporting standards under IFRS.
November 23 -
CCH Small Firm Services has begun shipping its ATX and TaxWise lines of software for tax year 2009, with links to tax research from CCH.
November 23 -
Most states tax their middle- and low-income families far more heavily than the wealthy, according to a new study by the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy.
November 20 -
Its getting near the end of the year, and tis the season to be compiling lists.
November 19 -
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., introduced the Senates version of the health care reform bill, which includes a new 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery.
November 19
