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States are Getting Creative as Tax Policy Shifts at Record Speed, Says Avalara Report
Lawmakers are increasingly expanding the sales tax base to encompass new categories of goods and services.
January 28, 2014
Earn Free CPE – Webcast Looks at How Accounting Firms Can Boost Payroll Services
It was the best of payroll processing times, it was the worst...well, you get the idea. Payroll used to be complex and tedious work, so much that many accounting firms stopped offering the service.
January 27, 2014
The New Controller Checklist
Anyone who has been hired into the controller position for the first time may feel overwhelmed, since the job description involves an enormous range of responsibilities.
January 27, 2014
Car Dealers Expect Strong Sales Year
Dealers predict increases in sales, F&I products and use of social media to reach customers
January 27, 2014
Consumers Want More Mobile Content from Retailers
Most mobile shoppers redeemed a coupon directly from their mobile device last year, according to a recent study.
January 27, 2014
SBA Loans Can Help Small Businesses Who Employ Reserve Soldiers, National Guard Members
Small businesses that suffered economic losses when the owner or a key employee was called up to active duty are eligible to apply for a low interest loan of up to $2 million from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
January 27, 2014
AICPA Accepting Applications for Accounting Scholars Workshop
Applications for the AICPA's Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop are now being accepted. Now in their 20th year, the Workshops are an annual invitational program for minority accounting students who plan to pursue the CPA designation.
January 27, 2014
Deadline for Forms W-2 and 1099 is on Friday, Jan. 31
Those who paid regular employees or used a contractor for more than $600 in work have until Jan. 31, 2014, to provide the appropriate wage and income reporting form – a W-2 or 1099-MISC – to all recipients. For those who procrastinate, sorting through the various IRS reporting requirements at the last minute can make…
January 27, 2014
H&R Block Stops Income Tax Ads on Dollar Bills After Complaints
The tax preparation company has been handing out real dollars bearing its marketing message for this year's tax season. There's a toll-free phone number to call Block, a Web address and even a footnoted disclaimer that not everyone gets a tax refund.
January 24, 2014
Rethinking The Social Media Strategy
It is popular among my learned accounting colleagues to portray the elders of the profession who have not signed on to the concept of a Social Media Strategy as some kinds of latter day Luddites.
January 24, 2014
IRS Modifies Automatic Consent Rule for Method of Accounting
The Internal Revenue Service has announced the release of Revenue Procedure 2014-16, which modifies the procedures for obtaining the automatic consent of the Commissioner for certain changes in methods of accounting for amounts paid to acquire, produce, or improve tangible property.
January 23, 2014
Indiana and Illinois See Jobs Growth
Small businesses are hiring, and employment at smaller firms grew in Illinois and Indiana last month.
January 23, 2014
Some Restaurants Dropping Automatic Tips For Large Groups
Like most other restaurants in Maine, DiMillo's On the Water in Portland says it will no longer charge automatic gratuities for most large groups now that a change in the federal income tax code has closed a long-standing loophole.