August 13, 2015
IRS Warns of Latest Income Tax Scams and ID Theft Schemes
More than 4,000 victims who have collectively reported over $20 million in financial losses as a result of tax scams since October 2013.
August 13, 2015
College Accounting Degree Enrollments Hit All-Time High
The Trends report found optimism from both universities and firms that the growth of the accounting profession will continue. Ninety-seven percent of bachelor’s programs and seventy percent of master’s programs report that they expect their ...
August 13, 2015
Most CPAs Surveyed Had Tax Clients Affected by ID Theft
Resolving issue for clients with IRS often proved difficult, according to AICPA.
August 11, 2015
Florida Woman Accused of Stealing Coworker Identities to Go Shopping
Most victims had something in common: they were employees at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach. Police said some of the victims said they knew Thaddies because she also worked at the hospital.
August 9, 2015
IRS Lacks Ability to Authenticate Foreign Documents for ITIN Applications
This audit was initiated because TIGTA received an IRS employee complaint referred from a Member of Congress alleging that the IRS’s ITIN application processes and procedures do not ensure that documents certified by a foreign issuing agency are ...
August 7, 2015
Accounting and Tax Professionals Urge Congress to Pass Tax Practitioner Bill of Rights
The National Society of Accountants (NSA) has sent a letter to all Members of Congress urging them to enact legislation to support the “Tax Practitioners Bill of Rights,” which NSA issued on June 16, 2015.
August 4, 2015
Hillary Clinton Releases Past Tax Returns with Eye on 2016 Election
If Hillary Clinton is elected president of the United States next year, she’s going to have to take a pay-cut. In an effort to provide greater transparency in her presidential bid, the Democratic frontrunner released eight years worth of tax returns on July 31, all of them joint returns filed with her husband, former President...…
August 4, 2015
Florida Accounting Firms Merge
Cocuy, Burns & Co., P.A., a CPA and consulting firm in Wellington, Fla. and Templeton & Company, LLP, a leading South Florida-based firm, combined practices effective August 1, 2015. Juan Cocuy and Tom Burns became partners in the newly combined firm...
July 29, 2015
New York CPA Society to Host NextGen 2015 Skills Conference Friday
Some of New York’s most ambitious young CPAs will gather in Midtown Friday for NextGen 2015, an annual interactive career development conference hosted by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
July 29, 2015
Concur Partners with Lyft and HotelTonight for Travel Convenience
A 2015 survey of travel managers found that more than 50 percent say the booming on-demand and sharing economies are a top trend impacting travel programs.
July 27, 2015
Senate Committee Approves Tax Extenders Through 2016
Among the many provisions addressed in the bill, business taxpayers would benefit from an extension and expansion of the Research and Experimentation (R&E) Credit, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), and the §179D deduction.
July 24, 2015
4 Facts About the IRS and E-Signatures – Infographic
Taxpayers and preparers are demanding online convenience more than ever. Due to this demand and in an effort to make electronic filling easier, new guidance from the IRS has been issued that will expand the use of electronic signatures on two ...