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Tech news: Asset-Map announces new features

Tax compliance and automation solutions provider Avalara and digital asset accounting platform Ledgible announced a partnership to offer enhanced digital asset cost basis reporting for 1099s. The collaboration enables businesses to integrate digital asset cost basis information into their tax forms. … Expense management solutions provider Emburse added updates and

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Tax Fraud Blotter: No risk

Everything must go; have con, will travel; gold rush; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Deltona, Florida: Business owner David Albert Fletcher has pleaded guilty to evading payment of more than $1.7 million he owed for tax years 2004 through 2014. Fletcher owned and operated several furniture liquidation businesses

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PCAOB releases CAMs guidance for auditors of small firms

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is rolling out a new series of staff publications targeted at auditors of small public companies, starting with one on critical audit matters, as board members face the likelihood of a deregulatory emphasis under the incoming Trump administration and probable changes in board composition.

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Taxpayer Advocate criticizes IRS move to shorten notice requirements

National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins is objecting to proposed regulations that would enable the Internal Revenue Service to shorten its third-party notice requirements to as little as 10 days, saying they would unfairly erode the taxpayer notice requirements. In a blog post Thursday, Collins called attention to a notice of

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PCAOB revokes Chinese firm’s registration

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today settled a disciplinary order sanctioning  a Chinese firm for repeatedly violating PCAOB rules and failing to cooperate with the board’s investigation.  The PCAOB found that JTC Fair Song CPA Firm, located in Shenzhen, China, repeatedly failed to make required filings. First, the firm

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Big tax changes promised in Trump administration

President-elect Donald Trump offered up a long list of promises during his campaign, and next year will bring a major test with the upcoming expiration of many of the provisions from his first administration’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. “No one has a crystal ball on what’s going

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Trump win may threaten IRS funding

The Internal Revenue Service may be facing steep cuts in its budget with the win on Tuesday night of President-elect Donald Trump. Funding for the IRS has become a political issue, with Republicans successfully pushing to cut the extra $80 billion funding from the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 already

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IRS modernizes regs on sales of seized property

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released final regulations on the sale of property seized by the IRS through a levy for nonpayment of taxes, providing a long overdue update to rules that had been in place since at least the 1950s, and even the 19th century. “The

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Planning for 2025’s tax brackets and retirement rules

Cooling inflation will bring some relief in the form of slightly lower taxes next year. An average inflationary adjustment of 2.8% under IRS guidance for 2025 released earlier this month came in lower than the 5.4% hike for this year and a boost of more than 7% across the seven

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