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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.
February 22, 2013
Bank tellers sentenced for cashing fraud-based IRS tax refund checks
Three people involved in a fraudulent tax-refund scheme were sentenced Thursday in federal court in Orlando for conspiring to defraud the government.
February 22, 2013
Texas lawyers invested millions in unqualified tax shelters
Three Texas personal injury lawyers will have to pay up after a tax court decided yesterday that they invested hard-earned fees in tax shelters that couldn’t pass the Internal Revenue Service’s smell test.
February 22, 2013
Virginia CPA, company in IRS hot seat for not remitting payroll taxes
Greg Moore and Irvin "Jim" Jones Jr. have been friends for more than 40 years. For most of the past 10 years, they worked together at Jones' business, which performed inventory services for large companies.
February 22, 2013
Intuit reports early tax season results: TurboTax unit growth accelerating since Jan. 30
Company Reiterates Full-year Revenue Guidance
February 22, 2013
IRS Reminds Taxpayers to Report 2010 Roth Conversions on 2012 Returns
The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers who converted amounts to a Roth IRA or designated Roth account in 2010 that in most cases they must report half of the resulting taxable income on their 2012 returns.
February 22, 2013
Wal-Mart says tax delay, payroll tax hike & gas prices to flatten sales
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. beat expectations for its most recent fiscal quarter, but the world's largest retailer is now warning that higher payroll taxes, income tax refund delays and lofty gas prices will cause stagnant sales during the current quarter.
February 22, 2013
Report: Half of Texas construction workers undocumented
Half of the construction workers in Texas are undocumented, according to a new report by an Austin immigrant rights group and University of Texas researchers that surveyed nearly 1,200 workers throughout the state.
February 22, 2013
Pennsylvania parochial school owes IRS $300K
A Catholic elementary school in Erie, Pennsylvania, owes the Internal Revenue Service more than $300,000 for failing to remit federal withholding taxes when the school was facing financial difficulties.
February 22, 2013
Drug felon learns a new felony trade: A $12 million tax refund ID theft scam
A convicted Miami-Dade drug trafficker unemployed for the past decade discovered how to make a quick buck, cashing $12 million in fraudulent tax-refund checks over five months last year, authorities say.
February 22, 2013
‘Sandy tax’ may hit many coastal residents in N.J., N.Y.
Residents of New Jersey and Long Island, New York's, coastal counties who live away from the water could be forced to pay higher property taxes to offset millions of dollars in lost revenue from hard-hit beachfront towns, a county official said.
February 22, 2013
Resource for finding out more about proposed Ohio tax changes
A new online resource center has been launched to help Ohio businesses and individuals stay apprised of the significant tax changes and financial implications proposed by Ohio Governor John Kasich's biennial budget bill (House Bill 59).
February 22, 2013
Small Businesses and the Affordable Care Act, ObamaCare
The National Association of Enrolled Agents has issued the following statement on how the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, will affect small businesses: