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People don’t typically think of research and development when they think of banks, retailers, brokers, insurance companies, hedge funds and financial service companies. However, many of these companies have large IT departments that are developing software for their own operations. That development can qualify for a very significant tax incentive: the research and development tax […]
The filing/administration gap; tinkering with reform; OIC’s many plusses; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers. Your brief breather Intuit Proconnect (http://taxprocenter.proconnect.intuit.com/): May’s tax and compliance deadlines, along with pointers on what practices should do this month (in addition to taking a breather). Turbotax (https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com): What to tell them about what tax records to […]
HD Vest Financial Services CEO Bob Oros joined the company last year from Fidelity and has been leading the way on HD Vest’s efforts to bring aboard more tax professionals and accountants to help them expand their financial planning services for clients, especially in the wake of the new tax law. HD Vest CEO Bob […]
Cherry Bekaert has installed Michelle Thompson as its new managing partner and CEO, the Top 100 Firm’s first female chief executive. Thompson succeeds Howard Kies, who has led the Richmond, Virginia-based firm for the past 27 years. She was previously managing partner of Cherry Bekaert’s assurance services practice and was voted in as head of […]
While the majority of taxpayers’ returns from the tax season just completed were not affected by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the impact of its provisions will be felt for years to come – and right now is a good time to start getting ready. With that in mind, the editors of Accounting Today […]
The IRS Redesign, a bipartisan effort two years in the making, is meant to dramatically redesign the structure of the Internal Revenue Service to make it a “taxpayer-first” agency, according to Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady. The legislation, which was working its way through Congress as we went to press, codifies the requirement of […]
Technology is disrupting accounting firms and their clients at an exponential pace. It is also providing significant opportunities to increase revenue and reduce costs. Developing a technology roadmap that integrates with a firm’s vision and strategic plan is becoming more valuable as well as challenging. Global vendors have entered the market, converging multiple technologies like […]
Early on in my career I met with a widow to review her finances and plan her cash flow after her husband’s death. One of her two daughters was also at every meeting. I knew the husband very well, but had never met his wife or children, and was aware of her being very risk […]
PayPie, which is developing a blockchain-based accounting platform complete with cryptocurrency tokens, has launched in beta with a QuickBooks Online integration. The platform’s initial credit assessment and financial analytics insights are live now and available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using QBO as their primary accounting solution in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, […]
Chalk up a win for capex. After months of heated debate over whether companies would hand the biggest tax break in three decades back to shareholders or reinvest it in their businesses, there’s finally some hard data. Among the 130 companies in the SP 500 that have reported results in this earnings season, capital spending […]
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