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Employers added 315K jobs in August, including 1,700 in accounting

The economy gained 315,000 jobs last month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although the unemployment rate inched up two-tenths of a point to 3.7%. One of the big winners was professional and business services, which gained 68,000 jobs in August, including 1,700 in accounting and bookkeeping services.

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States Take Child Tax Credits Into Their Own Hands

“What now?” is a question many families are asking, especially those who began receiving expanded child tax credits at the federal level only to see them not be renewed by Congress at the end of last year. The short-term economic and societal benefits of the federal government’s expanded 2021 child

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Tax Court Says When Deathbed Gifts Are Complete

A new Tax Court case, TC Memo 2022-72, 7/12/22, addresses the question: when are “deathbed gifts” considered to be complete for estate and gift tax purposes?  Background: There are two powerful tax law provisions that can help most taxpayers completely avoid federal estate tax or, at the very least, cut it

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Top executives face more scrutiny over pay in new SEC rule

Pay for top executives at U.S. companies is about to get a lot more scrutiny under a new Securities and Exchange Commission rule. Publicly traded firms will have to disclose more details about how senior managers are paid, including performance incentives, the SEC said on Thursday. The rule, which has

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Is Xero Really All That Different?

Even after 12 years in the North American market, Xero still sees itself as a challenger brand and it begs the question, how different are they? In the 20 years I have covered the accounting profession and related technology, you realize that accounting platfoms are inherantly not all that different

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Biden to forgive $10K in student debt

President Joe Biden announced a sweeping package of student-debt relief that forgives as much as $20,000 in loans for some recipients, a move he said would help a generation “saddled with unsustainable debt.” “The burden is so heavy that even if you graduate you may not have access to middle-class

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