Happy Tax starts cryptocurrency specialty tax practice

Happy Tax, a growing tax franchise, has opened a new tax preparation division aimed at the burgeoning cryptocurrency market.


Tax Fraud Blotter: Physician, jail thyself

CPA skims half a mil; rough ride; makeup fake-up; and other highlights of recent tax cases.


Thomson Reuters provides guidance on financial instruments impairment

Thomson Reuters’ Checkpoint Catalyst research service has added guidance on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new impairment rules requiring companies to recognize estimated credit losses sooner.


How the tax reform bill would affect eight U.S. families

If you’re confused by how the Republican tax bill will affect you, you’re not alone.


Democrats target ‘tax scam’ in 2018, but the GOP’s not worried

Shortly before passing a far-reaching but unpopular bill on a party line vote, the Speaker of the House assured critics that people would like it once they felt its benefits.


Trump takes victory lap after win on Republican tax overhaul

President Donald Trump declared that Republicans had passed the largest tax cut in U.S. history and said corporations would no longer relocate their headquarters overseas after the House sent the legislation to his desk on Wednesday.


Tax reform bill has some hidden gotchas

The tax reform legislation that Congress approved Wednesday has a number of complexities that could prove problematic for tax professionals and their clients.


Grant Thornton pays $1.5M to settle audit violations with PCAOB

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said Wednesday it has imposed a $1.5 million civil penalty against Grant Thornton LLP and censure the firm for violations of quality control standards and for audit failures.


AICPA disappointed by tax reform bill’s exclusion of CPAs

American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon issued a statement Wednesday following passage by Congress of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act expressing disappointment that the bill doesn’t give CPA firms the same favorable tax treatment provided to other pass-through entities.


Congress sends Trump tax-cut bill in first GOP legislative win

House Republicans passed the most extensive rewrite of the U.S. tax code in more than 30 years—hours after the Senate passed the legislation—handing President Donald Trump his first major legislative victory.