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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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Regional powerhouse J.H. Cohn has expanded its New York tax practice with the addition of tax consulting firm Becker & Co. LLC.
February 7 -
Just in time for consideration by President Bush's new bipartisan panel on tax reform, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson told Congress that the complexity of the Internal Revenue Code is the most serious problem facing both taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service.
February 7 -
President George W. Bush has named two former senators to lead a new nine-member bipartisan panel charged with arriving at options to reform the tax code.
February 7 -
In his State of the Union address this week, President Bush pushed his plan to overhaul Social Security and add optional private accounts for younger workers, as the White House unveiled some new details of how that plan would work.
February 4 -
The Internal Revenue Service has revised the form used by municipalities and other issuers of tax-exempt bonds to make arbitrage-related payments.
February 4 -
The Internal Revenue Service can use the efforts of CPAs and other tax practitioners as a springboard to leverage IRS initiatives to improve taxpayer compliance, Tom Purcell, chair of the American Institute of CPAs' Tax Executive Committee, told the IRS Oversight Board.
February 3 -
Thomas Wilson, former Large and Mid-Size Business Division industry director for the telecommunications, media, high technology, publishing, entertainment, sports and gaming industries at the Internal Revenue Service, has joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a managing director in the Washington National Tax Service's IRS Service Team, the Big Four firm said.
February 3