Firms on the move: Mercadien hosts carnival for education nonprofit

Prager Metis extends Alzheimer’s Association partnership; Mazars USA commits to fight hunger; and more news from CPA offices across the country.


Wall Street rushes to find winners and losers from tax overhaul

Normally right about now, many on Wall Street would be packing their bags for the Caribbean or the slopes. Not this year.


People on the move: GT appoints senior defense and intelligence advisor

Brown Smith Wallace hires nine; WS+B promotes eight in marketing; LBMC adds seven professionals; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.


Cohn, Mnuchin split helped break Trump's carried interest pledge

A split inside the White House helped preserve a loophole that benefits investment fund managers in the tax bill that’s headed for President Donald Trump’s desk—despite Trump’s campaign promise to abolish it.


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.