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Nov 10, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is facing hurdles in measuring the benefits of its customer service investments, according to a new government report.
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Nov 10, 2026
Internal Revenue Service officials described their priorities for tax professionals at an AICPA tax conference, as the agency deals with a sharply reduced workforce and a challenging tax season next year.
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Nov 10, 2026
Bracket creep; runaway productions; a knock at the door; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
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Nov 10, 2026
The Top 50 Firm acquired McDirmit Davis in Orlando and added Gary Sanders to its Southwest Florida team in Naples, Florida.
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Nov 10, 2026
Blue J announced it raised $176 million in a Series E round, which valued the company at more than $700 million.
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Nov 10, 2026
Talent development at the Best Firms to Work For means tailoring professional support to each employee's goals and needs.
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Nov 10, 2026
In a world dominated by headlines surrounding technology innovation and trends, arguably nothing continues to be as indispensable to CFO and financial teams' day-to-day workflows as ERP systems.
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Nov 10, 2026
Florida's Amendment 3 triples homestead property tax exemptions, but there's a five-year wait period to benefit from it — unless clients move soon.
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Nov 10, 2026
The 56-year-old Solo Capital founder, who in late 2024 was handed the heaviest jail term so far in Europe's sprawling Cum-Ex trading scandal.
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Nov 10, 2026
California voters are expected to reject a first-of-its-kind tax on billionaires, DDHQ projected on X, marking the end to one of the most expensive and divisive political battles in state history.
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Nov 10, 2026
The Top 75 Firm has expanded in the Southeast by adding two firms: Hagler & Brocato, in Hoover, Alabama, and Byrne|Zizzi in Tupelo, Mississippi.
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Nov 09, 2026
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board sanctioned Top 100 Firm Macias Gini & O'Connell, and two partners, over their audit of a biotech company that went bankrupt.
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Nov 09, 2026
Numica announced $21 million in new funding to buy CPA firms then migrate their client and staff onto its in-house AI solution. The money is a combined equity and debt financing from Roosh X and Flashpoint Capital.
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Nov 09, 2026
Numica has reportedly already acquired seven accounting practices to bring onto its artificial-intelligence-based platform.
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Nov 09, 2026
The IRS claims 'historic' performance as collections rise and tax rates drop.
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Nov 09, 2026
10 questions you and your clients need to think about before Dec. 31.
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Nov 09, 2026
Transcription services, document analysis tools and research assistants have spread across businesses of every size. Some of these tools now hold contracts, payroll files and draft financial statements.
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Nov 09, 2026
Building a strong culture is only going to get harder — and much more important — as the accounting profession looks to engage with artificial intelligence, warns Sandra Wiley.
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Nov 09, 2026
Clients placing bets in prediction markets still face confusion over the tax treatment of winnings, which may not be treated as capital gains.
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Nov 06, 2026
Plus, CohnReznick adds a number of new partners; Johnson Lambert rearranges its leadership structure; and other firm and personnel news from across the profession.
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Nov 06, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service has added a new feature to the Tax Pro Account allowing tax professionals to make some payments on behalf of business clients.
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Nov 06, 2026
The American Institute of CPAs is urging the IRS to waive certain estimated tax penalties for estates and non-grantor trusts for tax year 2026.
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Nov 06, 2026
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board withdrew the registrations of 97 audit firms that have fallen delinquent and failed to remain active.
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Nov 06, 2026
The question is not only whether worker classifications are correct, but how the client defends them or resolves them efficiently before or during an IRS audit.
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Nov 06, 2026
Homeland Security is heavily scrutinizing immigrants' tax records, issuing denials of citizenship for those on IRS payment plans or who sought filing extensions.
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Nov 06, 2026
Democrats' gains, public sentiment and states' need for revenue suggest that lawmakers aren't done with schemes to tax their wealthiest residents.
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Nov 06, 2026
The 2026 Best Firms to Work For have a litany of ways to keep morale high, during and after the busy tax season.
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Nov 06, 2026
MindBridge announces MCP support; UBCC touts payroll services platform for firms, processors; Honey Badger debuts Risk Playbooks for workflow support; and other accounting tech news and updates.
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Nov 06, 2026
Florida's newly approved property-tax cut is designed to make homes more affordable. But it could push up another punishing cost of homeownership: insurance.
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Nov 06, 2026
For years, accounting firms have been told that strong passwords and multifactor authentication are the foundation of cybersecurity. That advice still holds, but cybercriminals have moved on.
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Nov 05, 2026
NYC's fanciest restaurants; ghost preparer; home detention; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
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Nov 05, 2026
The profession is already seeing the beginning of the annual flood of M&A deals looking to get completed before year's end and the start of next tax season.
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Nov 05, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service released the annual inflation adjustments Thursday for tax year 2027 as inflation continues to impact taxpayers in the wake of this week's midterm elections.
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Nov 05, 2026
The list of over 6,500 opportunity zones stretches across all 50 states, plus territories, where real estate investors can gain valuable tax breaks.
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Nov 05, 2026
The American Institute of CPAs is partnering with the University of Phoenix on a new initiative combining accounting and finance content with faculty resources.
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Nov 05, 2026
Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of billionaires who were California residents at the start of 2026, with most of the proceeds earmarked to shore up healthcare.
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Nov 05, 2026
How can a firm turn benchmark results into evidence for its own decisions?
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Nov 05, 2026
Americans handed Democrats a thumping midterm victory on Tuesday, and with it, a mandate to fix their money problems.
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Nov 05, 2026
The 2026 Best Firms to Work For realize that 'No success at work is worth failure at home,' which is why they've kept remote work around since the pandemic.
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Nov 05, 2026
With AI and automation set to take over entry-level work, accounting firms need to reimagine how they're handling training and staff education.
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Nov 05, 2026
AI agents aren't a feature you switch on. It is a role you staff, and our profession already has the discipline required to staff it well.
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Nov 05, 2026
The AICPA has released its exposure draft of the proposed 2027 SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria. What should CPAs do to get ready for the possible changes?
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Nov 04, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is once again providing an online way to attend its Nationwide Tax Forum series and earn continuing professional education credits.
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Nov 04, 2026
Florida voters delivered one of the most far-reaching property-tax cuts in years, handing homeowners relief while threatening to blow holes in local budgets.
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Nov 04, 2026
A Brooklyn appeals court threw out a lawsuit challenging the rollout of New York City's pied-à-terre tax, ruling that the homeowner plaintiffs lacked standing.
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Nov 04, 2026
Democrats newly emboldened by wins in the midterm elections that shifted control of the House and Senate to their party are already gaming their strategy.
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Nov 04, 2026
Newly emboldened by wins in the midterm elections that shifted control of the House and Senate to their party, Democrats are already gaming their strategy.
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Nov 04, 2026
More than 35 RSM professionals will join EisnerAmper's Technology Solutions practice.
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Nov 04, 2026
Business process management solutions provider QX Global Group announced the launch of QX TaxReady in the United States, which combines agentic AI with human experts to help CPA firms with their workloads.
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Nov 04, 2026
Lunar Papers announced its formal launch as a tax practice management solution made for sole proprietors and small firms.
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Nov 04, 2026
If you're planning on getting paid to prepare taxes in 2027, you need to renew your preparer tax identification number.
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Nov 04, 2026
Top 25 Firm Aprio has added Garner Asset Management to establish a financial planning presence in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Nov 04, 2026
France's transition is showing what becomes possible when invoice data moves in a structured, standardized format.
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Nov 04, 2026
Accounting practice management company TaxDome announced that, starting in January, it will be going from per-seat to per-client pricing. There will be incentives and discounts to guide firms through the transition.
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Nov 04, 2026
Private sector employment grew by 86,000 jobs in October, while workers' base pay rose 3.2% and gross pay increased 4.7% year over year.
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Nov 04, 2026
If in need of inspiration, the 2026 Best Firms to Work For are not running short of creative and stress-relieving activities.
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Nov 04, 2026
The struggling public-transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area received a financial lifeline Tuesday, with voters passing a proposed sales tax to fund the region's trains, buses and ferries.
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Nov 04, 2026
Accounting firms are not the only ones facing higher AI costs. As more providers change from subscription-based to consumption-based pricing, many clients are experiencing the same challenges.
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Nov 04, 2026
Accounting did not become a verification profession by talking about integrity. It became one by assuming integrity would sometimes fail and designing institutions that could survive.
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Nov 03, 2026
Proactive November tax actions; better-coordinated fraud enforcement; corporate spin-offs; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
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Nov 03, 2026
The Professional Ethics Executive Committee unveiled its latest exposure draft proposing changes to the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct for PE-funded firms.
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Nov 03, 2026
Senate and House Democrats are pushing the IRS to release long-delayed estimates of the size of the tax gap, as the crucial midterm elections take place.
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Nov 03, 2026
Top 100 Firm Katz, Sapper & Miller merged in managed services provider Blackink IT.
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Nov 03, 2026
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board proposed changes in an auditing standard for providing comfort letters to underwriters providing capital to companies.
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Nov 03, 2026
A look inside the 20 best places to start a career in accounting.
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Nov 03, 2026
The number of weekly hours worked grew as employers continue to meet demand by increasing hours for their existing workforce, but hourly earnings barely budged.
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Nov 03, 2026
The number of weekly hours worked grew as employers continue to meet demand by increasing hours for their existing workforce, but hourly earnings barely budged.
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Nov 03, 2026
The 2026 Best Firms to Work For know that time off isn't a convenience for accountants who just survived tax season — it can be a necessity.
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Nov 03, 2026
An accountant can provide insight and guidance to help businesses navigate the maze of requirements for putting their first employee on the payroll.
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Nov 03, 2026
Young accountants are drawn to these top firms by their prioritization of work-life balance, flexibility, unique talent development models and opportunities for leadership.
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Nov 03, 2026
Over the past year, AI spending at accounting firms has soared, wit leaders scrambling to develop new governance models, training methods and budgeting considerations.
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Nov 02, 2026
Top 25 Firm Eide Bailly adds Fort Worth-based Regional Leader JTaylor.
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Nov 02, 2026
BDO's strategy of merging member firms into larger groups means it doesn't need to take private equity investment to grow, said the network's new global head, Trond-Morten Lindberg, as more accounting and consulting services lean on external funding.
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Nov 02, 2026
While private credit and other alts can offer high returns, advisors should know about the logistics involved, which could lead to tax headaches for clients.
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Nov 02, 2026
The update would help determine whether equity-linked contracts, such as warrants, are indexed to an entity's own stock and potentially classified as equity.
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Nov 02, 2026
Levvy announced the availability of new AI features and capacities for firm efficiency and revenue opportunities, intended to address much of the ad hoc administrative work that tends to eat into professionals' time.
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Nov 02, 2026
Grant Thornton Advisors has completed its landmark acquisition of CBIZ for $5 billion, creating the fifth largest accounting firm in the world.
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Nov 02, 2026
The Commission approved a set of amendments to the PCAOB's QC 1000 audit quality standard, relaxing some of the rules approved under the previous leadership.
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Nov 02, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved amendments to the PCAOB's QC 1000 audit quality standard, relaxing some of the rules.
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Nov 02, 2026
Audit quality should be part of deciding what resources to commit, what work to change, and what support can safely be withdrawn.
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Nov 02, 2026
North Carolina-based Top 25 Firm Cherry Bekaert continues its geographic expansion with Rhode Island-based Sansiveri Kimball.
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Nov 02, 2026
IRIS announced the launch of a new AI-driven document management solution built specifically for CPAs that, among other things, automates tagging and filing for users.
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Nov 02, 2026
IRIS announced the launch of a new AI-driven document management solution built specifically for CPAs that, among other things, automates tagging and filing for users.
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Nov 02, 2026
IRIS announced the launch of a new AI-driven document management solution built specifically for CPAs that, among other things, automates tagging and filing for users.
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Nov 02, 2026
The ]AI-powered Rise Navigator offers a tremendous resource for accountants, in the form of a strategic advisor and sounding board, says the AICPA's Tom Hood.
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Nov 02, 2026
For the 2026 Best Firms to Work For, listening to what their employees have to say is a nonnegotiable.
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Nov 02, 2026
Max Levchin, the billionaire co-founder of financial-technology company Affirm Holdings, said he would "probably" leave California if voters approve a one-time tax.
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Nov 02, 2026
Clark, an AI-driven accounting platform, announced the launch of Clerks, described as an AI coworker designed specifically for CPA firms that perform audit work.
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Nov 02, 2026
AI spending at accounting firms has risen dramatically compared to last year, a shift that is primarily-but not completely-explained by the move from subscription-based to consumption-based pricing by many providers.
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Oct 30, 2026
The AICPA's Rise Navigator offers a kind of GPS for accountants as they travel into the future.
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Oct 30, 2026
Gale Crosley maps the major change accounting firms need to make with CPA Coach Doug Slaybaugh.
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Oct 30, 2026
Sorren launches new Digital Advisory Practice; WM Synergy debuts new AI Business Unit; Wolters Kluwer releases tax planning, prep, audit assistance for CCH; and other accounting tech news.
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Oct 30, 2026
The U.S. Justice Department criticized the judge who penalized President Donald Trump and his lawyers for "bad faith" conduct in his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and its controversial settlement, arguing that her ruling was "riddled" with errors.
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Oct 30, 2026
In a letter, Colorado's Ron Wyden called on the Treasury and the IRS to curb the vehicles popularized by the world's largest hedge fund.
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Oct 30, 2026
Want to succeed with artificial intelligence? Start with organizational intelligence.
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Oct 30, 2026
Plus, Moore Global's next chair; a new CFO and CIO at Lutz; Forvis Mazars boosts the Special Olympics; and other firm and personnel news from across the profession.
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Oct 29, 2026
Charlotte Checkers; family leave tax credits; existed on paper only; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
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Oct 29, 2026
Accounting Today assembled a panel of accounting leaders and asked them what apps they personally find the most useful in their day-to-day work lives.
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Oct 29, 2026
The Top 100 Firm becomes one of a handful of major to set up an employee stock ownership plan, and is changing its named to Holthouse.
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Oct 29, 2026
Frank Bisignano donated to the Trump Accounts of children living in his hometown neighborhood Old Mill Basin in Brooklyn, New York.
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