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How to address growing skills gap for sales tax compliance

TaxConnex

The use of internal resources still seems the way to go for most companies struggling to meet their sales tax filing and remittance obligations. Staying on top of the ever-evolving sales tax landscape takes constant time and attention. The shortage starts at the highest level of tax compliance and trickles down.

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Allow IRS Criminal Investigators to Keep Following the Money

Withum

IRS-CI is the law enforcement arm of the IRS tasked with investigating violations of income tax, money laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act laws. Its the only federal agency that dedicates 100% of investigative time to financial investigations and has sole authority to investigate violations of US income tax laws.

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Effective September 1, You Can Sit For the CPA Exam in Texas With 120 Units

Going Concern

Before anyone gets too excited, note candidates still need 150 units for licensure.

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CPA Firm Managing Partner Weighs in on How to Rebuild the Talent Pipeline

CPA Practice

But they also overwhelming said it’s boring, it’s stuffy, you do taxes or audit. That’s it, you sit at a desk all day and crunch numbers, and that’s not true either, particularly if you’re in public accounting or doing consulting work for clients. There’s a lot more to it than doing audit and tax.

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Beyond automation: How AI can transform the human side of accounting

Xero

I would come home from school and sit underneath the front desk, and see the amount of work that went into preparing a tax return. What I learnt was that it was actually never about the tax return. I use AI a little differently from many other accountants, because my practice is different and tax heavy.

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How Vinod Shah & Co is embracing cloud accounting to reach their paperless goal

Xero

Ravi’s father, Vinod, founded the practice in whatever spare time he had between teaching on professional accountancy courses and spending time with his family. . Ravi’s mother, Punita, also an experienced accountant, worked with Vinod to grow the business, which was operating from the bedroom in their home. . Family business.

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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

Going Concern

Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers. A single finance course discussing buying vs. leasing provides more useful information for small business than any auditing course.

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