Accounting February 28, 2026
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December 11, 2015
ADP Testing New W-2 Verification Code to Fight Tax ID Theft
For selected clients, ADP will include the Verification Code in a designated box of the 2015 Forms W-2 issued to its clients’ employees. ADP will generate the alphanumeric code based on select data elements on each Form W-2, and an algorithm provided ...
December 10, 2015
Kill Bill Platform Certified as Avalara Sales Tax Partner
As a result of this partnership, customers of Kill Bill now have access to AvaTax, Avalara’s cloud-based solution, to automatically calculate the final sales tax amount on every invoice. This eliminates the tedious work and complexity of calculating ...
December 10, 2015
CCH CodeConnect Offers Additional Tax Research Expertise
CCH CodeConnect maximizes efficiency and saves valuable time by pinpointing specific answers, identifying practical guidance and offering relevant practice tools and decision aids relating to federal tax law content within the expansive CCH ...
December 9, 2015
Congress to Tax Debtors: Let Me See Your Passport
Are your federal income taxes overdue? You could lose your passport if you try to leave the country – even if you’re just taking a vacation or business trip abroad.
December 9, 2015
AICPA Objects to New Bill to Regulate Income Tax Preparers
The new bill was proposed after a prior regulatory program was successfully challenged in court by unlicensed tax return preparers (Loving, et. al. v. IRS, CA- D.C., No. 13-5061, 2/11/14). Subsequently, the IRS instituted a voluntary program.
December 8, 2015
Congress Considers Regulating Tax Preparers
The bill follows close on the heels of the IRS’ release of the Dirty Dozen list of tax scams for 2015 warning of of “dishonest preparers who set up shop each filing season to perpetrate refund fraud, identity theft and other scams that hurt taxpayers.”
December 8, 2015
New Program Helps Accounting Firms Specialize in Sales & Use Tax Compliance
One of the key features of the program, announced here at CPA.com’s Digital CPA Conference, is a single accountant console where firms can monitor client sales and use tax compliance from tax calculation to returns generation and form filing.
December 3, 2015
How To Dodge A Tax Hit When Selling a Rental Property
All types of commercial properties can be considered “like-kind,” including apartment buildings, vacant land, farmland, office buildings and warehouses among other properties.
December 3, 2015
5 Ways to Differentiate Your Firm From The Pack This Tax Season
In differentiating your firm, you can speak in greater detail about the focused services you offer and the value of those solutions to clients. Furthermore, you no longer have to communicate to the masses, but rather can directly target to the ...
December 2, 2015
5 Tips to Avoid Online ID Theft
Nearly two-thirds of Americans have heard, read or seen something about online safety and security issues recently, according to StopThinkConnect.org. Yet consumers also say they don’t take steps to stay safe online because they lack information or ...
December 2, 2015
5 Income Tax Deduction Tips for Donations to Charity
Donors must get a written acknowledgement from the charity for all gifts worth $250 or more. It must include, among other things, a description of the items contributed.
November 30, 2015
Report Says Enforcing Payment Card Reporting Could Narrow Tax Gap
The IRS received 2,933 Forms 1099-K with gross transactions totaling $543.9 million for which the payee TIN was that of a deceased individual. TIGTA identified that the TIN Matching Program, used by payers to verify a payee TIN, does not alert the ...