Deloitte adds an IRS deputy commissioner; Lassus Wherley staff earn their CFPs; MBAF gets a new HR director; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

Students met with industry leaders at Alabama State University to discuss best practices and network.

It took two days after Hurricane Irma ripped through the British Virgin Islands, damaging or destroying an estimated 70 percent of the territory’s buildings, for the Caribbean tax haven to start piecing back together its lucrative corporate-registry business.

The offering debuts on the first day the new rule under NACHA comes into effect.

KPMG LLP said the head of its South African office and seven other senior executives quit after an internal investigation found that work done for the politically connected Gupta family fell “considerably short” of the auditing firm’s standards.

Theft from prep help; neither snow nor rain nor the law; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Tax reform notwithstanding, the tax research providers Bloomberg BNA and Thomson Reuters both released their predictions Thursday for the annual inflation-adjusted tax rates that the Internal Revenue Service is likely to announce in the coming weeks.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving tax-exempt organizations in the parts of Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma more time to file their returns.

The South Dakota Supreme Court brought the question of whether online retailers should pay sales tax back into sharp focus.

Xero HQ is out of beta, and new tools are designed to help accountants become advisors.