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Housing recovery may reach all states in 2013

Since 2005, tepid economic growth and high foreclosure rates have depressed home prices, bloating inventories and preventing start activity. In 2013, economists are revising nearly a decade of pessimism and forecasting growth throughout the...

News • January 21st, 2013

Anchin Named Best Place to Work in New York State

Anchin, Block & Anchin, a New York accounting, tax and business management consulting practice, has been named as one of the Best Places to Work for in New York State.

News • January 21st, 2013

Tax Executives List Tax Compliance as Top Focus

Tax leaders are spending more time on tax compliance strategy and planning, according to a recent poll by Thomson Reuters.

News • January 21st, 2013

Michigan Supreme Court Justice charged with bank fraud

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway, retiring Monday after accusations of fraudulent personal real estate dealings, now faces a federal bank fraud charge for allegedly transferring a home she owned in Florida to allow for the short sale of...

News • January 21st, 2013

Gas Taxes Pay for Only a Fraction of Road Spending

Despite being dedicated to fund transportation projects, revenue from gas taxes and tolls pays for only about a third of state and local spending on roads, according to a new analysis...

News • January 21st, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul calls for legal hemp, repealing inheritance tax

Legalizing industrial hemp in Kentucky, passing a federal farm bill and helping young farmers establish themselves were among subjects U.S. Sen. Rand Paul and others discussed during a discussion at the Kentucky Commodities Conference.

News • January 21st, 2013

Former Colorado nonprofit exec pleads guilty to theft

A former nonprofit director accused of stealing more than $73,000 from a charity pleaded guilty to theft Monday in Fremont County, Colorado, District Court.

News • January 20th, 2013

Appeals court rules Wisconsin collective bargaining law is constitutional

A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a decision by a local federal judge and upheld a state law that sharply curtails the collective bargaining rights of public workers in Wisconsin.

News • January 20th, 2013

Forensic audit of Florida county's school budget raises questions

In the wake of the multimillion budget deficit that escaped the attention of Florida's Manatee County school district leadership for months, the community quickly focused on the backgrounds of the district's primary leaders.

News • January 20th, 2013

City sues CPAs over audit; Comptroller admitted $54M theft

A city's former comptroller is heading to prison and the accounting firm that performed municipal audits is being sued for not noticing the theft of $54 million over a decade.

News • January 20th, 2013

Judge: IRS can't regulate tax preparers, says RTRP credential unnecessary

A federal judge on Friday barred the IRS from imposing a series of new regulations, including a competency exam, on hundreds of thousands of tax preparers.

News • January 18th, 2013

Professionals on the Move - January 18, 2013

A weekly roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.

News • January 18th, 2013

Michigan Gov. signs executive order to create insurance, financial services department

Gov. Rick Snyder wasted no time implementing one of his proposals from Wednesday night's State of the State address, signing an executive order Thursday to create the new state Department of Insurance and Financial Services.

News • January 18th, 2013

Adaptive Planning Hires Alliances Executive Carolee Gearhart as VP of Global Channels

Gearhart Joins with Exceptional Experience in Enterprise Channels with SAP and PeopleSoft to Lead Rapidly Expanding Global Partnership Alliances for Adaptive Planning

News • January 17th, 2013

Florida workers feel effect of end of payroll tax cut

A Social Security tax break that was extended to Americans is officially over. The two percent tax break expired in January at the wishes of the US Congress.

News • January 17th, 2013

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