Tax

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July 26, 2011 

Amazon Fights California Sales Tax Law

Not too long ago, I wrote about “the problem with online sales tax” on our CPATechViews blog. There’s a long-reaching history with states wanting to get reveunes from sales to their residents when the merchant isn’t in that state. It started long before the internet (think mail order catalogues), but e-commerce has certainly aggravated the...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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July 26, 2011 

Conquering the Challenges of Sales & Use Tax

Sales and use tax compliance is an area of widely varying complexity. For many of the smallest entities that conduct taxable transactions, particularly physical retail businesses with only one or two locations, the process of applying the appropriate tax rate and reporting it to their states is often quite simple. And almost all states that...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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July 14, 2011 

2011 Innovation Awards – New River Innovation

CPA Practice Advisor Executive Editor Darren Root, CPA.CITP, presents a 2011 Innovation Award to New River Innovation for the Beyond415 IRS response system, which provides a SaaS-based method for tax and accounting professionals to quickly manage IRS issues and notices. The Awards were announced during a ceremony at the California Accounting & Business Show &…

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June 6, 2011 

6 Steps to Developing an Effective Client Portal Strategy

I think it’s fair to say that just about every accounting and tax practice in the country has given consideration to deploying a client portal in recent years. In fact, current estimates are that the number of firms that have a client portal in place is somewhere in the range of 20% to 40%.

John Higgins

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June 5, 2011 

Illinois Sales Tax Filing Software

Approved by the Illinois Department of Revenue Choice of e-file or Paper File Automatically calculates and validates the return QuickBooks Import option Option to import ST-2 from a text file Illinois Sales & Use Tax forms supported: ST-1, ST-2, PST-2, ST-1x, and ST-2x Business owners – it’s easy and fast, most users file in under...…

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May 26, 2011 

4 Key Components of an Electronic Workflow Process

The term workflow as it relates to tax, accounting and other segments of information administration, is not new to business professionals. The use of technology tools to aid in the control of workflow is, however, on the rise and is helping many organizations of all sizes improve their back office operations. A basic definition of...…

Karl Egnatoff

 CCH Introduces Comtax System to Help International Tax Professionals with Cross-border Transactions

May 9, 2011 

CCH Introduces Comtax System to Help International Tax Professionals with Cross-border Transactions

RIVERWOODS, ILL., May 9, 2011– Calculating cross-border transactions to determine everything from international tax strategies to where it makes sense to do business is now easier with Comtax System software, available in the United States through CCH’s partnership with Comtax. The partnership expands CCH’s portfolio of comprehensive international tax products and software tools that help...…