Tax

Thomson Reuters has released courses to help tax practitioners get ready for the Internal Revenue Service’s Registered Tax Return Preparer examination, meet annual continuing professional education requirements, and monitor their progress.

Thomson Reuters has created a set of resources under its Checkpoint Learning brand to help Registered Tax Return Preparers deal with the IRS's new education and testing requirements.

A bill to provide tax credits to small businesses that hire new workers has been blocked by Senate Republicans after Democrats refused to allow GOP-sponsored amendments on extending the Bush individual income tax cuts.

For Americans long subject to the complexities and confusions of the Internal Revenue Code, it may come as a shock to find that some believe the U.S. to be a tax haven.

For accountants, “crunch time” comes around every year, from February to April and then again from June to September.

National tax prep chain Jackson Hewitt Tax Service has launched a tax school in light of the new IRS requirements that preparers secure the RTRP designation.

Legislation to provide tax credits for small businesses that hire new workers has made progress in the Senate, with lawmakers voting 80 to 14 to advance the bill past a procedural hurdle Tuesday, but Senate Democrats blocked an attempt Wednesday by Republicans to add an amendment that would extend the Bush tax cuts for another year.

The top Senate tax writer predicted Democrats in the chamber will back President Barack Obama’s latest push to extend part of the Bush-era tax cuts, calling talk of Democratic dissension “background noise.”

Thomson Reuters said Tuesday that it plans to offer a number of tax and accounting reference handbooks for its Thomson Reuters ProView e-reader software.

Tascet has released technology that it said tax preparers can use to prevent multiple filings of tax returns by fraudsters.