The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are offering a safe harbor to provide relief to taxpayers who borrowed money to attend a nonprofit or for-profit school and had their student loan debts discharged.
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IRS offers tax relief for student loan debt discharges
By Michael Cohn      2 min read
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are offering a safe harbor to provide relief to taxpayers who borrowed money to attend a nonprofit or for-profit school and had their student loan debts discharged.
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ACCA launches 'wellbeing hub' for students' mental health
By Sean McCabe      2 min read
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants will provide mental health, lifestyle and community support as part of a new online resource.
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State sales and use tax changes in 2019 and what to expect in 2020
By Mark Friedlich      25 min read
The year 2019 was a continuation of the banner year of 2018 for major law and administrative changes in sales and use tax compliance, inspired and driven in large part by the Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v Wayfair.
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M&A roundup: Double mergers, and more
By Michael Cohn
UHY UHY merged in Pattison, Koskey, Howe and Bucci; MBAF added Kramer & Associates; and Fiondella, Milone & LaSaracina merged in two separate firms.
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Expense management vendors unite to form Emburse
By Michael Cohn      2 min read
A group of six travel and expense management software vendors — Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie — have come together under a single company, Emburse, in an effort to challenge SAP Concur.
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FASB clarifies accounting for equity securities
By Michael Cohn      2 min read
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a standards update aimed at clarifying the interaction between the rules related to equity securities, equity method investments and certain derivatives.
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USC professor honored with AAA 2020 Lifetime Contribution Award
By Sean McCabe      2 min read
Professor S. Mark Young, the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt chair in sports entertainment business and professor of accounting at the University of Southern California, was recognized for his contributions to management accounting education.
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Tax Fraud Blotter: Her little secrets
By Jeff Stimpson      5 min read
A little off the top; noted; over the Edge; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
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High-tech taxman who loves hockey is Putin’s new premier
By Jake Rudnitsky and Evgenia Pismennaya      3 min read
Vladimir Putin is putting his trust in an obscure technocrat with little political experience to be prime minister and revive Russia’s flagging economy, as he prepares the country for the most significant constitutional overhaul in a generation.
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IRS leaker who outed Michael Cohen’s banking secrets is spared jail time
By Joel Rosenblatt      2 min read
A former Internal Revenue Service analyst persuaded a judge not to send him to prison for leaking confidential government records on suspicious banking activity by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.
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