January 31, 2014
On the Wednesday before Super Bowl XLVIII between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, some in Congress question whether the league that runs the most-watched American sport, which generates as much as $9 billion in revenue each year, is deserving of its nonprofit, tax-exempt status.
January 31, 2014
The last thing you need in the middle of tax season is to be hit by scammers trying to plant malware on your computer and force you to make payments to them.
January 31, 2014
An analysis of charity care at the state's 24 nonprofit hospitals, conducted in cooperation with the New Hampshire Hospital Association, shows that hospitals here are more charitable than the national average and less profitable, although there are wide variations from one New Hampshire hospital to another.
January 29, 2014
A 75-year-old Aiken, South Carolina woman on recently wired her grandson $1,300 for bond after he was arrested in Mexico for drug possession. The only problem is, it wasn't her grandson -- it was a scammer cheating the woman out of money.
January 28, 2014
In the wake of the recent identity theft of some 40 million accounts from retail merchant Target, and the potential for massive theft from the health care exchanges set up under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), consumers are again left bewildered -- and looking for someone to take the lead in crafting…
January 27, 2014
The tax preparation company has been handing out real dollars bearing its marketing message for this year's tax season. There's a toll-free phone number to call Block, a Web address and even a footnoted disclaimer that not everyone gets a tax refund.
January 24, 2014
Thomson Reuters has released a special retrospective report focused on the key tax developments that occurred during 2013, which included a major federal tax law as well as many significant new cases, regulations, rulings, and revenue procedures.
January 24, 2014
The Internal Revenue Service has announced the release of Revenue Procedure 2014-16, which modifies the procedures for obtaining the automatic consent of the Commissioner for certain changes in methods of accounting for amounts paid to acquire, produce, or improve tangible property.
January 24, 2014
A 32-year-old Macon woman faces 27 years in prison after stealing the identities of nursing home patients and filing a half-million dollars worth of fraudulent tax returns.
January 23, 2014
Tax season has always been a tempting time for many unsavory people to try to scam others. The addition of online self-preparation and identity theft has only made the problem worse.
January 22, 2014
In the aftermath of the data breach that potentially exposed the credit and debit card information for 80 million shoppers, Target sent out an official email stating that the company would offer one free year of credit monitoring through Experian.
January 21, 2014
The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) today released an updated print edition of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s FASB Accounting Standards Codification, the single, authoritative source of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) for public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations.