The Internal Revenue Service is getting ready for an onslaught of tax returns arriving by Tax Day on Monday, though many taxpayers will be eligible for automatic extensions due to natural disasters across the country. The tax deadline is April 15 for most taxpayers, but those in Maine and Massachusetts
The offices of KPMG in ChicagoTannen Maury/Bloomberg KPMG, New York, launched its 2024 CEO Outlook Pulse Survey, which features insights from 100 U.S. CEOs on the key challenges and opportunities driving business growth, available here. CohnReznick, New York, established a new digital advisory practice to help businesses navigate technology- and
Crowe LLP, a Top 25 Firm based in Chicago, is merging in KMJ Corbin & Co. a Southern California firm that offers accounting, auditing, tax and consulting services, in the third M&A deal it has announced this month. The deal is expected to close in mid-May. Financial terms were not
A comfortable majority of accountants in the U.S. and U.K. say they use AI at work and, through it, have saved hours of labor per week. Accountants in particular were found to be higher than average in terms of both AI adoption and hours saved. These were among the findings
Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Tax season is almost over and you’ve made it this far, so congrats. Now is certainly not the time for me to write a column with lofty ideas for the future, so I am providing a few
The top accounting firms took another bite of market share for public company audits in 2023. The 10 firms with the most public company audit clients accounted for 70% of the total market (excluding special-purpose acquisition companies), according to the latest edition of Ideagen Audit Analytics’ annual “Who Audits Public
Senate Republicans are poised to sink a $78 billion tax-cut package, gambling that they’ll win the majority in November and can push then for bigger breaks for business. They also don’t want to hand President Joe Biden an election-year victory on the legislation, which includes both child and business
Crowe LLP, a Top 25 Firm based in Chicago, entered into an agreement with Belt Harris Pechacek LLLP, a Houston-based firm that provides audit and support services to local Texas governments, for the BHP team to join Crowe. The transaction is expected to close in the next 30 days, and
Off and Bozo-ing; the 100% tariff; Johnston on hot trends; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers. The rubber and the road University of Illinois Tax School Blog (https://taxschool.illinois.edu/blog/): “Employee” versus “independent contractor” — a look at recent guidance on this endlessly thorny question. The Rosenberg Associates (https://rosenbergassoc.com/blog/): Chalk
Four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has investigated 1,644 tax and money laundering cases related to fraud around pandemic relief programs worth potentially $8.9 billion. As of the end of February, 795 persons had been indicted and 373 sentenced to