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January 16, 2016 

The AICPA has entered into similar content-sharing agreements in the past year with professional accounting organizations in Colombia and Lebanon.

January 16, 2016 

Under the agreement, SmartVault will continue operating as a separate business unit with the same brand, employee base and Houston offices, and will retain its U.S. management team, led by founder Eric Pulaski. Financial details of the acquisition were...

January 15, 2016 

Avalara, Inc. has attained Workday Certified Solution Partner status. Avalara, which is a provider of cloud software for tax compliance, is a Workday software partner. With this certification, Avalara now provides customers with a real-time ...

January 15, 2016 

The firm serves privately-held businesses in various industries, with a strong concentration of clients in the construction, healthcare, professional services, manufacturing and distribution industries. The combination of BDO and Feeley & Driscoll ...

January 15, 2016 

Thomson Reuters has released a special report highlighting key tax developments in 2015 to aid practitioners in 2015 tax return preparation and support 2016 planning.

January 15, 2016 

The Internal Revenue Service will open the nation’s 2016 individual income tax filing season on Jan. 19, with more than 150 million tax returns expected to be filed this year. People will have several extra days to file their tax returns this year. Taxpayers have until Monday, April 18, to file their 2015 tax returns...…

January 15, 2016 

Carson would also eliminate deductions for charitable contributions, mortgage interest and state and local income taxes, while repealing the alternative minimum tax (AMT), the earned income credit and the rules for depreciation.

January 15, 2016 

A new partnership between accounting and business management software provider Sage and small business cloud computing hosting provider Cloud9 Real Time lets accountants connect with their clients’ data in QuickBooks desktop in a hosted environment. Sage View empowers accountants to track client performance, accessing key client data from multiple accounting solutions in one place. Sage View...…

January 14, 2016 

Workers can also expect to see higher starting salaries, more teens in internships, more women and minorities in leadership, and more opportunities to move from low-skill to high-skill jobs, among other trends.

January 14, 2016 

Playing the lottery is a form of gambling. As a result, the usual federal tax rules apply to income and losses resulting from gambling activities. Generally, you can only deduct your losses from wagering up to the annual amount of your income from ...

January 14, 2016 

Since our readers are mostly tax professionals and accountants, what two pieces of advice would you give to a client or family member first, if they had the winning numbers on tonight's Powerball jackpot?

January 14, 2016 

It’s the start of another year and resolutions abound. While laying off the cookies and hitting the gym top nearly everyone’s list, what about making a resolution to transform your firm’s identity by providing advisory and consulting-based services to ...

Jon Baron