Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
March 14, 2016
Need More Time? Tax Extensions Are Easy, But The Taxes Are Still Due April 15 (Actually, April 18)
Can’t file your tax return by the April 18 deadline? Taxpayers can request an automatic six-month extension of time to file the return, but what many don’t know can cost them.
March 14, 2016
IRS Taxpayer Advisory Panel Gets New Members
The new TAP members will join 41 returning members to round out the panel of 73 volunteers for 2016. The new members were selected from more than 1,000 interested individuals who applied during an open recruitment period last spring and the pool of ...
March 14, 2016
Clock Ticking on $950 Million in Tax Refunds from 2012
The Internal Revenue Service says that federal income tax refunds totaling $950 million are waiting for an estimated one million taxpayers who did not file a federal income tax return for 2012. To collect the money, these taxpayers must file a ...
March 13, 2016
IRS Offers New Guidance on Work Opportunity Tax Credit
Essentially, employers now have until June 29, 2016 to get all their ducks in a row. The new Notice also explains the rules for a new target group.
March 4, 2016
How Firms Can Develop Compensation Packages to Land Top Talent
With public accounting firms facing increased competition for skilled staff, it’s more important than ever that companies take a strategic approach to recruiting and hiring. Above-average compensation packages can go a long way in helping your ...
March 4, 2016
Xero TaxTouch: New Schedule C App for the Gig Economy Entrepreneur Workforce
This workforce of independent contractors is estimated to be 54 million strong, according to a recent Freelancing in America study conducted by the Freelancers Union. That number includes temporary workers and business owners.
March 4, 2016
PwC Offers Economic and Tax Policy Outlook for 2016
Election-year politics will dominate legislative action in 2016 as both parties seek to lay out policy agendas for 2017 and beyond, which would seem to dim prospects for legislation in 2016.
March 2, 2016
Association Tells IRS That Hike in EA Test Fees Are Too Much
NAEA President Terry Durkin, EA, has requested that IRS share the costing models or methodology used to derive the user fees, but as of today NAEA has not received that information. Without this information, it is difficult to determine whether or not ...
March 1, 2016
IRS Warns Payroll and HR Pros of W-2 Scams
The Internal Revenue Service has issued an alert to payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to be from company executives and requests personal information on employees.
March 1, 2016
New Tax Laws Offer Big Benefits to Some Small Businesses
This legislation included the extension of more than 50 tax credit and incentive programs that expired on Dec. 31, 2014 – among them an array of federal tax credits that offer incentives to employers who implement various hiring, training and ...
February 29, 2016
Comparing the Income Tax Returns of the 2016 Presidential Candidates
The latest dust-up involving Donald Trump, the front runner for the Republican presidential nomination, centers around his federal income tax returns. To this point, Trump has declined to release information about his latest tax returns, citing ongoing audits as this reason for the refusal. In the meantime, chief GOP rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio...…
February 29, 2016
Scammers Get Creative With Leap Day
You know you’ve been the consumer watchdog reporter for a long time when you start to think like a scammer. That’s exactly how my brain was working a week ago when I saw Leap Day was fast approaching. “I’ll write about all the Feb. 29 swindles that people should watch out for,” I thought. Incorrectly,...…