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March 5, 2015 

What should you be doing in your payroll practice this month? Here's your Payroll checklist for March.

March 5, 2015 

It’s rare when tax return preparers advise their clients to look a gift horse in the mouth. But it might happen when a taxpayer is affected by the limits for deducting investment interest expenses. Depending on the situation, it may make sense to elect preferential tax treatment for certain long-term capital gains or qualified dividends...…

March 5, 2015 

This new credit product enhances Dealstruck’s existing product suite, which includes a term loan and asset-based line of credit, and makes Dealstruck the first online marketplace lender to offer multiple line-of-credit products.

March 5, 2015 

Business executives are taking a more tempered view when it comes to expectations for profit, revenue and expansion in the coming year, according to the first quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which polls chief executive officers, chief financial off

March 5, 2015 

People pondering their retirement years often conjure images of spending more time on a favorite pastime or traveling around the country or the world. Health concerns can intrude on those idyllic scenes, though, not only affecting enjoyment of life but...

March 5, 2015 

The IRS compiles annually The Dirty Dozen, listing a variety of common scams taxpayers may encounter any time during the year. Many of these con games peak during filing season as people prepare their tax returns or hire someone to do so. Some of the more

March 5, 2015 

Plante Moran, one of the nation’s largest certified public accounting and business advisory firms, has been named to FORTUNE Magazine’s list of “100 Best Companies to Work For” for the 17th consecutive year.

March 4, 2015 

Filing taxes can be daunting, especially for those with complicated tax situations, such as small business owners or freelancers. That’s where Intuit’s QuickBooks Self-Employed comes in.

Taija Sparkman

March 4, 2015 

With a little work and some stick-to-it-iveness, you might be able to save a client hundreds or even thousands of tax dollars on a 2014 return.

March 4, 2015 

Thanks to the new tax extenders law passed at the end of last year – the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (TIPA) – parents with children in college have not one, not two, but three tax breaks to choose from on their 2014 returns. But some of your upper

March 4, 2015 

Certify, Concur and Expensify lead rankings of business expense management programs.

March 4, 2015 

Under the “kiddie tax,” if unearned income of a dependent child who is under age 19 or a full-time student under age 24 exceeds an annual threshold, the excess is taxed at the top rate of the child’s parents. The threshold on 2014 returns is $2,000.