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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.
A parliamentary inquiry is turning one firm response into a bigger warning for every accounting leader who says culture matters.
A Westchester accountant is accused of stealing from a plumbing client. His wife, a civilian police department employee, is also facing tax-related charges.
The first filing-season data shows where clients got relief, and where firms will get the next wave of questions.
The new nomination cycle could reshape where client capital gets tax-favored treatment for the next decade.
