Tax

A new mobile app called Swipefin is aiming to become the “Tinder of tax prep” by using the same swipe left and right movements employed by the popular dating app, in this case for tracking deductible business expenses.

Liberty Tax Inc. reported that the total number of customers it served in the U.S. and Canada grew by 2.1%, to 2.2 million, in fiscal 2015. Revenue increased 1.6%, to $162.2 million.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Tax professionals need to juggle multiple commitments—especially during busy season. The long hours, travel and heavy workload can be an endurance test for many. With these demands on fathers’ time, it’s important for them to focus on balancing their professional and personal life in order to remain energized during and outside of work.

The operator of Pender Tax Services, LLC, a tax preparation business in Rosenhayn, N.J., has been indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and nine counts of preparing fraudulent tax returns for her clients.

The owner of a brothel in Salzburg, Austria has found an innovative way to protest what he sees as punitive taxation and regulation of his industry: offering free sex and drinks to patrons all summer.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Republican Senator Rand Paul’s plan to overhaul the U.S. tax system calls for a 14.5 percent federal flat tax for consumers and companies, the elimination of almost all deductions and the abolition of several other levies.

A New Jersey tax preparer was convicted of tax fraud for getting unearned tax refunds for his clients to make extra money for himself.

It’s one of the sweetest employee perks in the hedge-fund world: a chance to invest in Medallion, the wildly profitable fund created by market legend James Simons.