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IRS Workforce Turnover Part of Tea-Party Scrutiny Fallout: Taxes The furor over scrutiny of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service, which hurt President Barack Obama politically, has…
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Farmers, tax preparers facing more changes The Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting and processing 2013 tax returns a little later than usual. But farmers and their tax preparers shouldn’t…
Black Market Tax Preparers Continue To Defy IRS When the Internal Revenue Service announced intentions to regulate tax preparers, the idea was to save taxpayers from “unscrupulous” (IRS’ favorite word…
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PCAOB Offers Firms Advice on Fixing Audit Quality Problems The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has added a page to its Web site to provide information to audit firms where quality control…
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Accounting Fraud and Waste Is Standard Procedure at the Pentagon The Pentagon routinely commits accounting fraud in order to balance its books with the U.S. Treasury's, according to a new report from…
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Salaries on the Rise for Accountants and Financial AnalystsThe staffing company Robert Half is projecting a 3.4 percent uptick in salaries for accountants next year, according to the 2014 edition of…
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Accounting Firms Doing More Lateral Hiring Lateral hiring of partners and leaders by accounting firms from competing accounting firms is on the rise, according to a new study reported in Accounting…
The IRS Did Not Properly Implement Law Penalizing Erroneous RefundsWASHINGTON – By incorrectly interpreting Federal law, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) significantly limited the number of…
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Identity Theft: IRS Still Has Issues to Resolve Expanded identity theft detection efforts at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are helping to identify fraudulent tax returns, however, billions of…
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Worldwide Identity Thieves Steal Millions in Tax Refunds In this May 8, 2008, file photo, blank U.S. Treasury checks are seen on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which…
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