Top issues and changes for the filing season that’s just begun. | AICPA CEO Melancon: CPA licensing under threat | | By Michael Cohn 7 min read | | American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon talked about the need for CPAs to learn new skills as hiring of accounting graduates has slowed and the CPA licensing model has come under threat in some states. | |
| Gig work growing inside companies | | By Daniel Hood 3 min read | | A growing cohort of the gig workforce is actually working long-term inside traditional companies — and they’re pretty happy about it, according to research from ADP. | |
| The 2020 Top New Products | | By Daniel Hood, Danielle Lee, Ranica Arrowsmith | | Accounting Today’s editors pick the best new and most improved tools and resources for accountants from the last year. | |
| KPMG buys stake in LumaTax | | By Michael Cohn 2 min read | | KPMG LLP has bought a minority interest in LumaTax, a San Diego-based sales and use tax technology provider. | |
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| Inspector general faults IRS Free File program | | By Michael Cohn 5 min read | | The complexity and insufficient oversight of the IRS’s Free File program, which is supposed to provide free tax software to most taxpayers, results in low taxpayer participation in the program, according to a new government report. | |
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