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The Internal Revenue Service plans to open tax-filing season on Feb. 12, although it is making its Free File program available starting Friday. The tax season normally begins in late January, but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the distribution of the latest round of Economic Impact Payments, a backlog of work from last year, and changes […]
Dixon Hughes Goodman donates over 1.5 million meals; KPMG makes education donations to mark MLK Day; Baker Newman Noyes donates laptops to Maine Schools; and Berdon LLP launches a real estate education program for high school students.
The Institute of Internal Auditors is giving corporate America only a modestly better grade on governance in 2020 compared to 2019, and any improvement is probably due to the coronavirus pandemic. The IIA and the University of Tennessee released their second-annual American Corporate Governance Index on Wednesday, scoring companies at an average of B- (82) […]
We all know that denial is not a river in Egypt, but how many of us know that denial is the state of our firm? In his 2008 book entitled “Strategy and the Fat Smoker,” David Maister wrote that we often (or even usually) know what we should be doing in both our personal and […]
Artificial intelligence is in its glory days now, with its promised applications being realized in a range of service areas for accountants. But AI is for more than just automating processes and creating efficiencies — now is the time for firms to be creative, thinking about new industry-specific applications and firm-specific pain points where AI […]
The year of coronavirus will go down in history not just as a time of plague, but also of crisis-driven tech adoption. Mass migration online drove the adoption of cloud-enabled technologies, and AI was one of them. As businesses embrace AI, accountants need to keep up to make sure maximum efficiencies are achieved — but […]
The COVID-19 relief package that Congress agreed to last month provides many useful tax breaks, but accountants are also wondering about the applicability of some of the breaks, such as claiming restaurant meals as business deductions. Evan Morgan, director of tax services at Top 100 Firm Kaufman Rossin, is advising his small-business clients to take […]
The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division issued a warning Thursday about a new wave of COVID-19 scams tied to the latest round of stimulus payments, especially targeting taxpayers in the District of Columbia. The warning comes amid heightened tension in Washington after a riot last week at the Capitol that left five people dead […]
Starting Friday, Jan. 15 at 10 a.m. ET, licensed CPAs may apply for a .cpa domain of their own. The new domain is meant to lend a further layer of branding, but also of trust, as a .cpa domain name will signal to clients that they are doing business with a real licensed CPA.Until now, […]
Thirteen new members have been named to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council, a public forum for IRS officials and representatives of the public to discuss issues in tax administration. Among the accountants and tax practitioners appointed to three-year terms beginning this month were: Jeremiah Coder, a tax director at Big Four firm PwC, has […]
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