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November 7, 2017 

The Challenges of Financing Water Infrastructure Projects

Construction firms, utilities, municipalities – all have a stake in addressing how to best finance infrastructure projects heading into 2018. Especially the water industry, which faces a number of unique factors and challenges in getting projects off ...

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November 7, 2017 

AICPA Urges Simplification of Income Taxes

The proliferation of new income tax provisions since the 1986 tax reform effort has led to compliance hurdles for taxpayers, administrative complexity for CPAs and enforcement challenges for the Internal Revenue Service, Edward S. Karl, AICPA vice ...

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November 7, 2017 

Adaptive Insights Adds Financial and Operational Planning

The third major software release of the year, Adaptive Suite 2017.3, brings new features and functions that continue to deliver on the company’s commitment to offer a planning, reporting, and analytics platform that enables businesses to adopt an ...

 10 Million U.S. Taxpayers Faced IRS Penalties in 2016

November 3, 2017 

10 Million U.S. Taxpayers Faced IRS Penalties in 2016

Most of those affected taxpayers can easily reduce or, in some cases, eliminate the penalty by increasing their withholding or adjusting estimated tax payments for the rest of the year. With a little planning, taxpayers can avoid the penalty altogether.

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November 2, 2017 

Examining the GOP Tax Reform Proposal

The current graduated seven-bracket structure would be reduced to four rates of 12%, 25%, 35% and 39.6%. The previous plan was based on only three brackets with a top rate of 35% and didn’t specify income amounts. Thus, this new plans preserves the ...

Ken Berry, JD