IRS beefs up tax pro security on Practitioner Priority Service

The Internal Revenue Service plans to ask tax professionals additional questions before providing them with assistance as part of its efforts to improve security.


BKD buys Harper & Pearson’s financial institution practice

BKD CPAs & Advisors has acquired the financial institution practice of Houston-based Harper & Pearson Company, P.C, effective Jan. 9, 2018.


Tesco jury prepares for verdict as accounting trial nears end

The four-month trial of three former Tesco Plc U.K. executives accused of fraud and false accounting over a 250 million-pound ($341 million) profit black hole at the grocer is nearly at an end.


Bid to collect internet sales tax gets U.S. Supreme Court review

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider freeing state and local governments to collect billions of dollars in sales taxes from online retailers, agreeing to revisit a 26-year-old ruling that has made much of the internet a tax-free zone.


PwC and Accruent partner to address new lease accounting standard

The firm will leverage the software company’s asset management software to create a rounded compliance offering.


Four quadrants to master for 2018

Simple steps to spending all day with your favorite, most profitable clients—who happily refer you to their peers.


Firms on the move: Withum debuts annual ‘State of the Firm’ video

HMWC hosts donation drive; HeimLantz launches executive team leadership coaching; and more news from CPA offices across the country.


People on the move: Former FBI director heads Deloitte's cyber risk services

EY appoints global leader of fraud investigation and dispute services; Grant Thornton hires chief economist; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.


Taking clients to ballgames? Tax law change makes it costlier

Businesses—especially smaller firms—may scale back on treating clients to major league baseball games, golf outings and the like after Congress and President Donald Trump ended a tax break for such entertainment.


Trump’s SALT ‘war’ revisited: Most blue staters will get tax cut

In liberal bastions like metro New York and California, the Trump tax overhaul has been criticized as economic warfare. But as elements of the plan come into focus, tax experts are concluding that some of the most dire predictions for high-tax blue states—particularly surrounding the treatment of state and local taxes—may not pan out as feared.