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.
December 26, 2014
Last Chance for Tax Exempt IRA-to-Charity Transfers
The time for clients to take required minimum distributions from their IRAs is rapidly dwindling. They have until December 31, 2014 to arrange for an RMD for the 2014 tax year. Otherwise, they could be slapped with a stiff tax penalty.
December 22, 2014
CBIZ Offers New Affordable Care Act Compliance System
The employee benefits provider and insurance advisory consultancy CBIZ has released CBIZ ACA CheckPoint, a platform offering the advanced availability of ACA reporting and compliance tools and expertise. The system was developed in conjunction with SyncSt
December 19, 2014
Top 5 Fraud Predictions for 2015
Technology will give fraudsters an edge in 2015, but it will also provide new tools for organizations and investigators, according to three experts from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) who were asked for their top fraud predictions ...
December 18, 2014
3 Ways to Improve Expense Management and Improve Cost Savings
If a business has been around more than a few years, chances are it has already been put through the cost-cutting wringer. Although many businesses have seemingly exhausted all their options to cut costs, companies continue to look for additional ...
December 18, 2014
Report Offers Complete Analysis of the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint has released RIA’s Complete Analysis of the Tax and ERISA Provisions of the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014, the 2015 Continuing Appropriations Act, and Other Acts of the 1
December 18, 2014
Avalara Acquires VATLive.com
The global sales tax solution provider Avalara, Inc. has acquired VATLive.com, a leading global online resource for timely tax news, insight, and rate changes.
December 18, 2014
The Weirdest Sales Tax Laws of 2014
A rose may be a rose by any other name, but is a candy bar sales taxable or exempt as a food item? There are more than 8,000 sales taxing jurisdictions in the United States (states, counties, cities and special districts), and many of them find ...
December 18, 2014
Ring In Tax Tidings for Stock Sales on New Year’s Eve
Suppose you need to sell stock to realize a capital gain or loss at the end of the year. As the time for the stock exchange to close business on December 31 nears, you pull the trigger on the transaction, just getting it in under the wire. Will the result
December 17, 2014
Congress Creates New Tax-Favored Savings Accounts for Disabled
As part of its last moves before the holidays, the lame duck Congress and Senate passed the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014, which primarily focused on many tax deductions and credits that had technically expired at the end of last year.
December 17, 2014
Congress Renews Most Expired Tax Breaks
At long last, Congress granted a reprieve for most of the expired tax provisions that had remained in limbo this year, but the late-breaking tax relief is only temporary.
December 15, 2014
National Accounting Society Warns Taxpayers of Scams
The National Society of Accountants (NSA) is warning that many taxpayers have been victims of an aggressive and sophisticated phone scam where callers claim to be employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), but are not.
December 15, 2014
10 Credit Predictions for 2015
A crystal ball is a valuable thing. After all, if any of us truly had one, we could make a killing in the stock market. But while 20-20 vision is ultimately reserved for hindsight and no one can actually predict the future, we can indeed make some educate