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Texas Hotelier Nets $59M In PPP Loans

PYMNTS

The biggest benefactor of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a Dallas, Texas-based hotelier named Monty Bennett, who has received $59 million from the program intended to help small or medium-sized businesses with the economic crisis.

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

Going Concern

Another state has pushed to allow prospective CPAs to sit for the exam with just a bachelor’s degree worth of units and that’s good ol’ Texas. Here’s hoping Texas gets a few more CPAs out of all this. Effective September 1, future CPAs can sit for the exam with 120 units of education. Angie Button, also a CPA.

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The Texas Board of Accountancy Slapped EY With a Huge Fine

Going Concern

This time in the form of $3 million payable to the state of Texas. This is the largest administrative penalty the Texas Board has ever assessed against a CPA firm. Details From the SEC Order The post The Texas Board of Accountancy Slapped EY With a Huge Fine appeared first on Going Concern. That’s it.

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Aprio expands in Texas

Accounting Today

The Top 100 Firm is merging in San Antonio- and Austin-based Ridout Barrett & Co.

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Texas A&M Axes NIL Fund, ‘12th Man Plus,’ After IRS Memo

CPA Practice

By Mark Heim, al.com (TNS) Texas A&M announced Wednesday it was “discontinuing” the 12th Man Plus fund, which provided coveted “priority points” and tax-deductible donations in regard to name, image, and likeness. “On Texas A&M announced the 12th Man Plus fund in February as a fundraising arm of the 12th Man Foundation.

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14 Charged with $53 Million PPP Fraud Scheme in N. Texas

CPA Practice

Industries, NTC Industries, West Texas Equipment and West Texas Scrap. This week, defendants were arrested in Texas, California and Oklahoma by FBI and other federal agents. Eight of the 14 defendants are from cities in North Texas. Many of those list their addresses at the same Dallas recycling and scrap metal business.

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Latest Developments in State and Local Sales Tax

TaxConnex

The Texas comptroller confirms that salespersons in a local jurisdiction constitute state nexus for certain companies. Out-of-state wineries must have a Texas use tax permit in order to make direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales into Texas.

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