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February 12, 2013 

Pennsylvania voters want the state to privatize the sale of wine and liquor. That's the result of a new survey by the Commonwealth Foundation.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

February 12, 2013 

Rising income tax receipts helped lift Oklahoma tax revenue collections in January to 10.2 percent more than the same month a year ago, state finance officials said Tuesday.

February 12, 2013 

Spectrum Project Management is available as part of the suite of applications that comprise Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum Construction Software product line.

February 12, 2013 

TurboTax this year unveiled a product called CPA select. While this has some benefits for consumers who want a CPA to do their taxes but don’t want to guess at what the cost will be, there are some benefits for up-and-coming CPA firms as well:

Dave McClure

February 12, 2013 

A bill in the North Dakota state legislature that would suspend the state's income tax has failed in committee.

February 12, 2013 

New York's community banks provide most of the loans for the state's small businesses and farms, generating more than half of all small- business loans and almost all small-farm loans even though they hold less than one-fourth of all bank assets in the state, banking regulators said in a new report.

February 12, 2013 

Small-business owners were slightly more optimistic about the economy last month but their outlook remained poor, according to a private survey released Monday.

February 12, 2013 

A man who cashed an income tax refund check for nearly $4 million pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Monday to making a false claim against the IRS and to filing fraudulent, retaliatory liens against two federal judges and two federal prosecutors after his indictment for the false tax return.

February 12, 2013 

An Ohio CPA was found guilty by a federal jury for leading a financial scam that took more than $40 million from investors in Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia.

February 12, 2013 

The AICPA's Advocacy program states that as many as 24 states "anticipate that their 2013 legislature will consider a proposal to tax accounting services."

Isaac M. O'Bannon

February 12, 2013 

FASB has issued its U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy Implementation Guide—Subsequent Events. The guide is the first in a series of XBRL Implementation Guides, which are designed to help Taxonomy users understand how certain disclosures are structured within the Taxonomy, and is available at www.fasb.org.

February 11, 2013 

As many as 25 percent of credit reports may include incorrect information, which can lead to loan denials or higher rates.