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December 14, 2016 

Checkpoint Research Platform is an online research system from Thomson Reuters. Checkpoint provides easy access to recent tax laws and primary source materials for federal, state, and international tax, as well as access to tax planning, corporate ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

December 14, 2016 

IntelliConnect, from CCH/Wolters Kluwer offers a web-based research application accessible through common web browsers as well as mobile devices. This year’s release offers a series of product enhancements which include an updated user interface for ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

December 14, 2016 

Bloomberg BNA offers users a variety of information, including accounting policy and practice, compensation planning portfolios, estates, gifts, and trusts portfolios, along with sales and use tax library, and an international tax library.

December 14, 2016 

The sad truth is that for the majority of state sales tax sites, it isn’t easy to get the essential information that you need. Many of them are riddled with outdated design, perplexing navigation and unclear wording that can turn finding simple ...

Scott Peterson

December 14, 2016 

Courts to date have disagreed on this matter. An administrative law judgment initially upheld the department’s audit findings in March 2013. The Fourth District Court of Appeals then found the state to have “impermissibly burdened interstate commerce ...

Gail Cole

December 14, 2016 

Now that we're in the closing weeks of 2016, it's time to finalize year-end tax saving strategies. Accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP has released a collection of Year-End Tax Guides for 2016 to help individual taxpayers and small business owners prepare.

December 14, 2016 

Imports at the nation’s major retail container ports are expected to be up 3.2 percent this month over the same time last year as stores bring in the last of the merchandise for the holiday season, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “There’s...…

December 14, 2016 

Accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP has received a perfect 100 percent score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) – a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT ...

December 13, 2016 

Bermuda, the Netherlands, Ireland and Luxembourg are among the world’s 15 worst corporate tax havens, according to new Oxfam research published today. The report ‘Tax Battles,’ reveals how these tax havens are leading a global race to the bottom on ...

December 13, 2016 

53.5 cents per mile for business miles driven, down from 54 cents for 2016. The business mileage rate decreased half a cent per mile and the medical and moving expense rates each dropped 2 cents per mile from 2016. The charitable rate is set by ...

December 13, 2016 

We all struggle with demands on our time. Some of these are external and work-focused- requests from colleagues, phone call interruptions, and email. But others stem from our own internal weaknesses. In our conversations with session attendees, people ...

December 13, 2016 

In some sectors, respondents expect to spend considerably more time and effort on lease accounting implementation. These sectors include: automotive (77.1 percent); health plans (65.9 percent); health care providers (62.8 percent); industrial products ...