Taxes January 26, 2026
Welcome to Tax Season 2026
The IRS today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025.
May 9, 2018
What Does the Affordable Care Act Have To Do with Tax Reform? The Individual Mandate Goes Away in 2019
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (summary of changes) is the largest piece of tax reform legislation in 30 years and was signed into law on December 22, 2017. Although most of the legislation applies to Tax Year 2018, clients are already starting to ask ...
May 9, 2018
What Every Accountant Needs to Know about Sales Tax Nexus
At its most basic level, nexus is answering the question, “Do you have sufficient contact to require you to register with a state taxing authority or other regulatory body?” Don’t make the mistake of getting frightened by the term.
May 9, 2018
How Real Estate Giant Zillow Handles Sales and Use Tax Compliance — Part 1
While many of us use Zillow as a resource for up-to-date home-related information, the company’s story of maintaining sales tax compliance and transitioning to automated accounting solutions provides insights for accountants supporting growing clients.
May 8, 2018
How to Build a Talented Bench of Workers
It’s important to reward employees for their achievements and encourage them to learn more skills they can put to use at your company. Even if you can’t promote them right now, be sure to recognize their achievements. At CorpNet, for instance, we ...
May 7, 2018
The Future of the Online Sales Tax “Physical Presence” Nexus Standard – Part Four
Accountants are being pulled in to the trend of the online marketplace. The ease offered by online ecommerce platforms means even small clients can suddenly be mired in complexities of multistate tax rules from their very first sale.
May 3, 2018
A.I., Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing As Profession’s Top Technology Hard Trends For 2018 – Part 1
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive computing in audit and tax are the top trends that will impact the accounting and finance world over the next three years, according to research conducted by the Maryland Association of CPAs, the...
May 1, 2018
What Amazon Can Teach Tax Professionals about Adding Financial Planning Services
The convenience and all-in-one experience that your clients get from Amazon has come to be their new expectation in other facets of their lives, including their finances. More and more clients are looking for a single solution for all of ...
Accounting April 24, 2018
10 Tips for Accounting for Professional Athletes
Whether you’ve provided tax and accounting services for professional athletes in the past or are just getting started, you’ll want to pay special attention to these 10 key issues that are unique to this type of client.
April 19, 2018
6 Ways to Adapt Hiring Practices for Today’s Realities
Public accounting firms require a steady pipeline of auditors, analysts and tax accountants — not to mention specialists in information technology, marketing and business development. Bringing these professionals in, though, is easier said than done. Why?
April 18, 2018
Analytics and Data Evaluation for Everyone
One of the more interesting areas for new offerings in accounting technology has been the emergence of toolsets to automate the analysis of data sets. Whether we’re learning about end user tools for accounting firms like InformationActive’s Active ...
April 18, 2018
2018 Reviews of Professional Payroll Systems
Processing payroll is not for the faint of heart. While the process may seem fairly straight-forward, a small mistake can have tremendous repercussions. No longer as simple as taking hours from a timeclock, companies today have to pay part time ...
April 18, 2018
2018 Review of W2 and 1099 Preparation Systems
In 2005, approximately 10 percent of workers were considered freelancers or contractors. That number rose to almost 16 percent in 2015 and will likely continue to rise in the coming years, as businesses find that they can reduce salary and associated ...