Taxes November 9, 2026
IRS Expands Tax Pro Account to Allow Business Client Payments
Tax professionals can now make certain payments on behalf of their business clients through Tax Pro Account, the IRS announced on Nov. 6.
July 29, 2013
2013 Review of Qutera
Best Firm Fit: Organizations looking for basic QuickBooks or multi-user Sage 50 hosting at an attractive price, or those who need hosted virtual servers. Also, firms with an IT department who need expertise in some, but not all, areas of hosting data online and would like an outside technical resource to serve as a backup...…
July 29, 2013
2013 Review of Swizznet
Best Firm Fit: Firms who need a QuickBooks host and do not need automatic provisioning of configurations and/or new users. Strengths: The company offers the free Open Office productivity suite for those who need a simple, inexpensive tool for editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The only host which offers two factor authentication of users (e.g....…
July 29, 2013
2013 Review of Right Networks
Best Firm Fit:Any company looking to leverage the efficiencies of the cloud to successfully grow their business. Also, firms who are looking to expand their practice and provide higher value to clients by offering them a mobile, collaborative, fully managed environment to access their desktop accounting applications. Strengths: The Company is an authorized host for...…
July 29, 2013
2013 Review of InsynQ
Best Firm Fit: Organizations who use professional tax and accounting applications from multiple providers. InsynQ has a particularly strong reputation for successfully dealing with the challenges of hosting Lacerte Tax and ProSeries Tax Professional, which challenge many providers. Also, as the only provider in this review which offer hosting of Canadian tax and accounting applications...…
July 29, 2013
California governor pushes increase in unemployment insurance taxes
In the closing days of the Legislature last year, California Governor Jerry Brown helped forge a compromise on a sweeping overhaul of the workers' compensation insurance system and persuaded Democratic and Republican lawmakers to pass it into law.
July 29, 2013
Ohio legislature ends property tax subsidies
After a tradition of some 40 years of subsidizing local taxes, Gov. John Kasich and Republicans in the Ohio House and Senate applied the brakes.
July 29, 2013
How the CS Professional Suite Helps These Accounting Professionals
Three practitioners describe how their CS Professional Suite software has increased profits for their firms and improved client service. For more information on the CS Professional Suite, please visit: http://bit.ly/cspro13
July 29, 2013
Banks increasing focus on risk management
Rising focus on board governance, enterprise-wide systems, risk and technology; operational risk deemed area that needs further attention
July 29, 2013
PwC appoints new leader for U.S. Advisory Services
Everson succeeds former U.S. Advisory Leader Dana Mcilwain, who is now PwC US Services Leader
July 29, 2013
Five Core Principles to Work By…
As many of you know, I co-authored a book a few years ago with acclaimed author Michael Gerber titled The E-Myth Accountant – Why Most Accounting Practices Don’t Work and What to Do About It. This proved to be a great experience for me.
July 29, 2013
IRS identity verification requests present a new client opportunity
In recent years, the IRS has stressed its commitment to protecting taxpayers from tax-related identity theft. As part of this commitment, the IRS enhanced the Electronic Fraud Detection System (EFDS).
July 29, 2013
Streamlining Sales and Use Tax: Solutions Are Out There
Sales and use tax is one of the three primary areas which legislators use to fund state and local government (the other two major areas are income taxes and property taxes). The concept is relatively simple: if you buy something tangible, you pay a fixed percentage to the local government as a tax.