July 15, 2014
AICPA Sues the IRS Over Voluntary Income Tax Preparer Program
America's largest professional organization of tax and accounting professionals has had enough with the IRS.
July 15, 2014
IRS Says University President’s House Is Taxable
When Roderick J. McDavis became Ohio University's president a decade ago, he moved into 29 Park Place, a 7,000-square-foot, 2 1/2-story home at the heart of OU's campus in Athens.
July 10, 2014
Report Says IRS Should Revise Form 1040
A new report by the agency that oversees the Internal Revenue Service says it's time to revise the ubiquitous Form 1040, the form used by individual taxpayers to report their annual income.
July 2, 2014
Bookkeeper Accused of Stealing $400K
A 65-year-old New Mexico woman is accused of stealing nearly $400,000 from her employer, including forging more than 200 checks and paying $30,000 in mortgage payments via electronic transfers from her employer's account.
July 1, 2014
IRS Says that Idle ITINs Expire After 5 Years
The Internal Revenue Service announced on Tuesday that Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) will expire if not used on a federal income tax return for five consecutive years. The IRS will not begin deactivating ITINs until 2016, however.
July 1, 2014
New Form 1023-EZ Simplifies Small Charity Applications for Tax-Exempt Status
Small charities have a new, simpler process for applying for tax-exempt status. The Internal Revenue Service has introduced Form 1023-EZ, a shorter application form to help small charities apply for 501(c)(3) recognition.
July 1, 2014
Nonprofit Charities See Increase in Donations
Americans gave more to charities over the past three months than they did during the same period last year, according to the Blackbaud Index, which tracks charitable giving.
June 30, 2014
ADP SmartCompliance Tax Credits System Undergoes First SOC 2, Type 1 Audit
The operations supporting ADP's SmartCompliance Tax Credits module have successfully completed its first Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 audit.
June 30, 2014
Report: Prices Rising Faster than Wages
Food prices are rising. And inflation, that word common in American conversation 25 years ago, is eating up wage gains.
June 27, 2014
Should Your Clients Join the Rush to Roth IRAs?
Although it’s been almost five years since the floodgates were opened, we’re still seeing a steady stream of conversions to Roth IRAs. As long as Congress doesn’t clamp down on the rules, you can expect for this trend to continue.
June 26, 2014
IRS Announces New Program for Uncredentialed Tax Return Preparers
The IRS has started a new voluntary program that it says is intended to encourage education and filing season readiness for paid tax return preparers who are not credentialed. The program will be in place to help taxpayers during the 2015 filing season.
June 26, 2014
Intuit Signs with SmartVault to Provide Document Management for ProSeries and Lacerte
Small business accounting and tax company Intuit has partnered with cloud document storage and sharing firm SmartVault, which will provide integrated cloud-based document management for Intuit's two professional tax systems, Lacerte and ProSeries. The combination of these professional programs is intended to further automate tax preparation workflow, from receiving source files securely from clients to…