The Internal Revenue Service plans to ask tax professionals additional questions before providing them with assistance as part of its efforts to improve security. In an email to tax professionals Friday, the IRS said it is continuing to review its procedures to better protect sensitive taxpayer data. As part of
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Undeterred by the outside rebuke, the auditor took the rare step of withholding her seal of approval for the government's financial statements. What followed was revealing. Instead of a crisis of confidence in the government's accounting, the auditor's “j'accuse” was greeted with silence and shrugs.
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Shares of Menlo Park, California-based Facebook tumbled 3.9 percent at noon in New York, cutting Zuckerberg's fortune to $74.4 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. If that decline holds through the close of trading, he will lose his place as the world's fourth-richest person to Spanish retail
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Welcome to the age of the truly driverless car: GM's latest self-driving vehicle is a modified Chevy Bolt without a steering wheel or pedals.
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EY appoints global leader of fraud investigation and dispute services; Grant Thornton hires chief economist; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country. View List. next. Get AT in your inbox. Newsletter. Daily, Accounting Technology, Tax Practice, IRS Watch
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