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The cheap part is getting a custom tool to work once. The expensive part is making sure it still works when the firm depends on it.
Private equity-backed accounting platforms are getting bigger targets, and the promise is starting to sound harder to deliver.
A niche estate-planning move just became a disclosure problem with real penalties attached.
A fight over one IRS settlement is turning into a bigger question about who still has audit risk.
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Players may come for the biggest soccer tournament on earth and leave with the least sexy souvenir possible.
Private equity is not just buying CPA firms anymore. It is rewriting how the work gets carved up.
Fraud is moving faster than client judgment, and firms need controls before panic hits.
The five-week push gives firms a practical reason to tighten phishing training, security plans, breach reporting, and client intake before scams hit the next busy season.
A small Form 843 change gives some taxpayers a faster way to protect penalty and interest refund claims.
A watchdog report says the IRS knows taxpayer data is being shared widely, but still lacks one clean system for tracking every agreement.
