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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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With the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform due to report Nov. 1, we asked industry leaders, many who made Accounting Today's recently released 2005 Top 100 Most Influential People list, to tell us what sort of tax system they would create.
October 13 -
Bolstered by higher sales and lower costs, consulting giant Accenture posted a 25 percent hike in fourth-quarter profits, to $229.1 million, versus the year-ago period.
October 12 -
Meeting for the first time since July, the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform began focusing discussions on what recommendations will be included in its report, due on Nov. 1.
October 11 -
Adelphia Communications Corp. founder John Rigas and his son, Timothy, were indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of engaging in a $300 million tax evasion scheme. Both men were found guilty of fraud earlier this year in connection with accounting fraud at the bankrupt cable company.
October 10 -
KPMG ANNOUNCES NEW TAX SERVICES HEADS: Moving on from its recent legal troubles, KPMG named vice chairs for its tax services and tax services operations.Shaun T. Kelly, 46, and Frederick S. "Rick" Smith, 49, will take over the respective tax leadership roles effective at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Tax services vice chair James Brasher will assume other significant duties within KPMG's organization, while operations vice chair John Chopack will retire in early 2006, as previously planned.
October 9 -
As the U.S. mobilizes on a number of fronts to assist in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina, the Internal Revenue Service has mobilized as well. The IRS has already released several information releases in response to Hurricane Katrina.There have already been disasters this year involving droughts, floods, tornadoes and other hurricanes. The IRS had released relief guidance earlier this year involving Hurricane Dennis and a tornado in Wyoming. It is seldom, however, that a disaster of the scope and national impact of Hurricane Katrina comes along.
October 9 -
The Streamlined Sales Tax Project, in labor since 2000, officially gave birth on Oct. 1, 2005, when the threshold of 10 states representing at least 20 percent of the population was crossed."There are now 13 full-member states and five more associate states," said SSTP co-chair Scott Peterson, of the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulations. The associate-member states are those that have passed the requisite implementing legislation, but where the legislation had not yet gone into effect by October 1.
October 9