Summer is well underway, and now is a great time to help your clients and their dependents with the tax tips in this slideshow written by Michael Sonnenblick of Thomson Reuters Checkpoint.
 
 
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Summer Tax Tips for Your Clients and Their Children
 
Summer Tax Tips for Your Clients and Their Children
 
Summer is well underway, and now is a great time to help your clients and their dependents with the tax tips in this slideshow written by Michael Sonnenblick of Thomson Reuters Checkpoint.
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Art of Accounting: Avoid the Appearance of Assuming a Responsibility
 
Art of Accounting: Avoid the Appearance of Assuming a Responsibility
by EDWARD MENDLOWITZ
 
Accountants are really nice people who look for ways to help and better serve clients. Sometimes we present the appearance that we are doing something or are assuming a responsibility that we are not, and this should be avoided. Here are some illustrations:
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Summer Tax Tips for Your Clients and Their Children
 
Summer Tax Tips for Your Clients and Their Children
by MICHAEL SONNENBLICK
 
There are some tax advantaged ways to help clients pay for expenses for their children this summer (text-only version).
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The CPA's Role in QDROs
 
The CPA's Role in QDROs
by ROGER RUSSELL
 
For some accountants, the only QDRO they will see will be part of their own divorce decree. But for many others, advising on QDROs is a part of their practice.
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IRS Spent $10.71 Million on Guns and Ammo
by MICHAEL COHN
 
The Internal Revenue Service spent $10.71 million on guns, ammunition and other military-style equipment from fiscal year 2006 to FY 2014, according to a new report.
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New York State Warns Tax Preparers to Beware of Cybercriminals
by MICHAEL COHN
 
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance is warning tax preparers about the potential security risks they face from cybercriminals who are trying to access the data of their tax clients.
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Jersey Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty in Tax Scheme
 
An employee at a New Jersey tax prep business has pleaded guilty to helping prepare fraudulent tax returns using names and Social Security numbers stolen from two dozen people.
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by JEFF STIMPSON
 
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by TED NEEDLEMAN
 
Comparing the leading professional tax preparation packages
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Hidden Dangers
by ROGER RUSSELL
 
Your tax practice may be opening you up to liability
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Hundreds of IRS Workers Injured on the Job Every Year
by MICHAEL COHN
 
Internal Revenue Service employees file more than 800 new injury claims each year, according to a new report.
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Multiple retirement accounts: Pay-out complexity and opportunities
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Mr. Higher-Tax-on-Carried-Interest Goes to Washington
by LYNNLEY BROWNING
 
He made his name in academia by criticizing a lucrative tax break for private-equity managers. Now Victor Fleischer is taking his anti-loophole thinking to Washington.
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In the Blogs: Mother Lodes
by JEFF STIMPSON
 
Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.
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