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Feb 23, 2026
The IRS and the Treasury released interim guidance on a special depreciation allowance for qualified production property under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Feb 23, 2026
TIGTA found that thousands of the IRS's new hires in 2024 did not receive equipment or performance expectations in a timely manner.
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Feb 23, 2026
Accounting firms can't simply focus on showing up in online search results; they also need to focus on appearing in AI searches on Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude.
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Feb 23, 2026
Haefele Flanagan acquired Durham, North Carolina-based Mig Murphy Sistrom, strengthening its nonprofit practice.
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Feb 23, 2026
The Supreme Court's nixing of President Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs is throwing fresh confusion over the raft of trade deals negotiated by global partners.
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Feb 23, 2026
The president's latest import taxes seem likely to lead to another legal challenge and more uncertainty for trading partners, companies, consumers and investors.
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Feb 23, 2026
New reporting rules around stablecoins are coming thick and fast; in this episode, two experts from the AICPA discuss the new rules and what they mean for accountants and clients.
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Feb 23, 2026
Top 10 Firm BDO USA added 10 new clients at the end of 2025, almost all from its November acquisition of Top 100 Firm Horne.
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Feb 20, 2026
Building an advisory practice in your accounting firm means culling your client list — but that's just the start.
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Feb 20, 2026
Doeren Mayhew acquired CPA firm Dent Moses and its affiliate, Impact Technology Group, expanding its presence in the Southeast and adding to its technology service offering.
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Feb 20, 2026
The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Treasury and the IRS for further guidance on the rules for deducting domestic research and development expenses.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission is making extensive changes in auditing and accounting as it continues to deregulate under the Trump administration.
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Feb 20, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission is making extensive changes in auditing and accounting as it continues to deregulate under the Trump administration.
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Feb 20, 2026
Citing Congress's authority to levy taxes and tariffs, the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark 6-3 decision against President Trump's sweeping tariffs.
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Feb 20, 2026
When a client picks up the phone, they have a pressing question or concern they need answered right away.
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Feb 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling undercuts Trump's signature economic policy and delivers his biggest legal defeat since he returned to the White House.
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Feb 20, 2026
Plus, TaxRock announces 2.0 edition; MyCPE One launches comprehensive learning and development services; and other accounting tech news and updates.
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Feb 20, 2026
Ascend names first-ever COO and REDW first-ever CFO; Prager Metis promotes four to principal; and more news from across the profession.
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Feb 19, 2026
No-brainer; kicking back; up against the wall and other highlights of recent tax cases.
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Feb 19, 2026
Platform Accounting Group acquired Smeriglio Associates, expanding its presence in Connecticut and New York.
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Feb 19, 2026
President Trump has been given a deadline of next week to respond to claims that his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS poses a glaring conflict of interest.
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Feb 19, 2026
If you have business clients who are considering changing their LLCs or C corporations into S corporations, now is a great time to discuss the pitfalls.
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Feb 19, 2026
The deal expands the Top 50 Firm's presence in New York State and adds CMJ's specialties in construction and financial services.
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Feb 19, 2026
A recent court case sheds some light on the rules around limited partners — but questions remain.
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Feb 19, 2026
The IRS handed out a hefty tax break to large corporations, ensuring that President Trump's lucrative R&D deduction doesn't increase their tax bills.
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Feb 18, 2026
The Treasury Department released interim guidance on the corporate AMT, further restricting the reach of the 15% tax on billion-dollar corporations.
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Feb 18, 2026
The Financial Accounting Standards Board's recent income tax disclosure standard is revealing that many prominent U.S. multinationals are paying far more corporate taxes in other countries than at home, according to a new analysis.
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Feb 18, 2026
While most taxpayers tend to procrastinate on doing their taxes, they're even more hesitant to trust artificial intelligence to do their taxes for them.
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Feb 18, 2026
While most taxpayers tend to procrastinate on doing their taxes, they're even more hesitant to trust artificial intelligence to do their taxes for them.
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Feb 18, 2026
Federal attention to foreign influence in higher education has intensified.
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Feb 18, 2026
Payroll data from Gusto finds that small businesses that use AI more tend to hire slightly more people, but this does not necessarily favor younger people in their early career, or those in heavily AI-exposed occupations.
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Feb 18, 2026
A Japanese accounting group is seeking to ease rules on how life insurers book paper losses on government bonds, a move that would provide a relief for the major holders of the nation's debt.
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Feb 18, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has thrown down an ultimatum, threatening to raise property taxes by nearly 10%.
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Feb 18, 2026
AI-enabled fraud has become so sophisticated more than one-third of senior internal audit leaders aren't even sure whether or not their organizations have been the targets of any attempts.
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Feb 17, 2026
Sage announced the latest version of its Sage Intacct solution, which now features AI agents for finance intelligence and data imports.
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Feb 17, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is proposing raising New York City's property taxes for the first time in more than two decades.
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Feb 17, 2026
The Bonadio Group is making greater use of artificial intelligence as AI makes further inroads in the accounting profession as well as other industries.
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Feb 17, 2026
Taxpayers on average collected $2,290 in refunds through Feb. 6, according to IRS data.
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Feb 17, 2026
The vast majority of professional auditors have expressed concern that AI tools, while helpful, risk undermining professional judgment and eroding the trust people have in the profession entirely.
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Feb 17, 2026
The vast majority of professional auditors have expressed concern that AI tools, while helpful, risk undermining professional judgment and eroding the trust people have in the profession entirely.
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Feb 17, 2026
Free File program; state tax changes; college costs climbing; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
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Feb 17, 2026
Cherry Bekaert acquired Richardson Kontogouris Emerson, expanding the Top 25 Firm's presence on the West Coast.
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Feb 17, 2026
There are some excellent tools to help hiring managers make better decisions, but introducing them at the wrong time in the process can have disastrous results.
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Feb 17, 2026
This Lunar New Year we enter the Year of the Fire Horse, characterized by a combination of passion and bold action (fire) with speed and perseverance (horse).
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Feb 17, 2026
The Trump administration's interim guidance on clean energy tax credits offered some relief to the industry by laying out a manageable path for new projects.
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Feb 16, 2026
The window for participating in Accounting Today and Best Companies Group's annual ranking is currently open.
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Feb 16, 2026
The IRS can broaden the audit, and, in the wrong fact pattern, frame the issue as deliberate concealment rather than poor recordkeeping.
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Feb 16, 2026
The Maryland Association of CPAs celebrated its 125th anniversary on Feb. 12, 2026.
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Feb 16, 2026
Halfpricesoft, an accounting and payroll solutions provider, announced the latest version of its ezW2Correction software, which is intended to assist with file corrections for years 2015 to 2025 tax forms at one flat rate.
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Feb 16, 2026
The Institute is asking the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service to simplify the "determine and document" requirement for taxes charged to CFCs.
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Feb 16, 2026
The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement issued a pair of advisories on how OTC crypto trading desks and payment processors can hide criminal activity.
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Feb 16, 2026
Accounting educators aren't immune to the challenges that are sweeping the profession, says Yvonne Hinson, president of the AAA.
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Feb 13, 2026
Around the world, audit, risk and accounting teams are grappling with rising geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty.
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Feb 13, 2026
Two of our longtime cherished colleagues at Accounting Today have passed away: Roger Russell and Jeff Stimpson.
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Feb 13, 2026
The Wisconsin legislature passed a bill that establishes an additional pathway to CPA licensure, and it awaits Gov. Tony Evers' signature.
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Feb 13, 2026
Centri promotes 24; AI Native Accounting Foundation launches; and more news from across the profession.
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Feb 13, 2026
Some auditors have taken on exceptionally high listing workloads alongside existing mandates.
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Feb 13, 2026
Plus, new Emburse tool uses AI to prevent errors before they start; Bill touts new agents, enhancements to existing ones.
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Feb 13, 2026
The Trump administration issued new guidance on the use of foreign materials and components in U.S. clean energy projects.
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Feb 12, 2026
Don't bet on it; COVID come-uppance; mine the gap; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
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Feb 12, 2026
The IRS and Treasury plan to propose regulations restricting energy-related tax credits when "prohibited foreign entities" provide material assistance.
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Feb 12, 2026
Small business owners are losing the equivalent of 33 working days a year due to financial stress, according to a report from Xero.
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Feb 12, 2026
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners has partnered with Grant Thornton to help organizations uncover fraudulent activity and avoid financial losses.
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Feb 12, 2026
Bowers adds Sciarabba Walker; Capstone adds Peltier, Gustafson & Miller; Aldrich Solutions adds Summit Security Group; Richey May adds Wagner Kaplan; and Province adds StoneTurn.
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Feb 12, 2026
After nearly a century of trying, Washington state Democrats could finally pass an income tax — a move that would hit 30,000 or so top earners.
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Feb 12, 2026
In practice, depreciation does not eliminate tax cost over time. It merely redistributes it.
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Feb 12, 2026
The health care services contractor said it may have overstated some of its past revenue and pulled its guidance for the year.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Top 50 Firm based in Atlanta is absorbing three acquisitions it made last year while planning on future dealmaking.
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Feb 11, 2026
The independent nonprofit is devoted to helping professionals move past hype and into concrete practical implementations of artificial intelligence technology.
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Feb 11, 2026
Grant Thornton has sold its quality management application qm.x to accounting AI software company Tellen, though the firm will keep using it.
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Feb 11, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service improperly disclosed confidential taxpayer information on immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Feb 11, 2026
Oracle NetSuite introduced a host of new features and capacities built around agentic AI covering both process automation and data-driven insights.
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Feb 11, 2026
CalCPA celebrated the 125th anniversary of the Accountancy Act, kicking off by lobbying at the state capitol in Sacramento.
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Feb 11, 2026
CalCPA celebrated its 125th anniversary on Feb. 2, kicking off by lobbying at the state capitol in Sacramento.
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Feb 11, 2026
New Jersey's law adding another pathway to CPA licensure went into effect today, Feb. 11.
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Feb 11, 2026
New Jersey's law adding another pathway to CPA licensure went into effect today, Feb. 11.
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Feb 11, 2026
Used correctly, it's a force multiplier, not a job eliminator.
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Feb 11, 2026
Used correctly, it's a force multiplier, not a job eliminator.
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Feb 10, 2026
Demetrios (Jim) Logothetis was sworn in as chair along with two new board members, Mark Calabria and Steven Laughton, just over a week after they were named.
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Feb 10, 2026
Demetrios "Jim" Logothetis was sworn in as chair along with two new board members, Mark Calabria and Steven Laughton, just over a week after they were named.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Senate blocked a resolution that would have disapproved of recent guidance from the Treasury Department weakening the corporate alternative minimum tax.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service made only limited progress in scanning a tiny fraction of paper-filed returns last tax season, according to a new report.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded a contract to PSI Services to develop and administer the examination for Enrolled Agents to earn their tax credential.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded a contract to PSI Services to develop and administer the examination for Enrolled Agents to earn their tax credential.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service has now closed nearly all outstanding claims for the employee retention credit aside from 41,000 claims still under exam or appeal.
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Feb 10, 2026
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has decided to pursue guidance for applying current standards to uses of emerging technology, like AI.
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Feb 10, 2026
The Top 25 Firm acquired Browne Consulting Group, expanding its presence in Boston and strengthening its expertise in the life sciences and biotech sectors.
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Feb 10, 2026
The tax solutions provider isn't aiming to compete with CPAs.
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Feb 10, 2026
Make sure clients know what the government's share is, before taking gains. Don't overlook opportunity zones.
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Feb 09, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is adding capabilities to the online Tax Pro Account, allowing firms to specify which staff members are authorized with CAF access.
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Feb 09, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court ruled that innovations in livestock production can qualify for the research and development tax credit, establishing new case law.
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Feb 09, 2026
Bookkeeping automation solutions provider Botkeeper is closing down. The company made the announcement over the weekend.
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Feb 09, 2026
Users can log in to free apps like Google Gemini or ChatGPT and create realistic-looking, fraudulent documents — such as fake receipts or invoices — in seconds.
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Feb 09, 2026
Accounting's 'Inspector Gadget,' David Cieslak, looks at major trends in accounting technology for 2026.
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Feb 09, 2026
Big Four KPMG announced that the employees and founders of AI development platform PrivateBlok will be joining the firm to further scale its AI capacities.
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Feb 06, 2026
The shift will happen gradually starting this summer until December, when QBOA will be discontinued.
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Feb 06, 2026
The new Pilot AI Accountant claims to run the entire bookkeeping and financial reporting process with zero need for human intervention.
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Feb 06, 2026
The tax-filing season for individuals just opened recently, but businesses already got a head start on various tax incentives in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Feb 06, 2026
PCAOB adds to advisory groups; Schneider Downs transitions to single CEO structure; and more news from across the profession.
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Feb 06, 2026
The Top 75 Firm acquired D & Co., expanding its presence in Texas and strengthening its healthcare specialty.
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