Pedestrians cross a road outside a Norvik Banka JSC bank branch in Riga, Latvia, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg. Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis lashed out at representatives of Norvik Banka JSC, saying that they're trying to hurt Latvia's image following a report
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File to Accountants Behaving Badly: Petty theft, significant consequences. Teresa Osboure, 52, is charged with “multiple counts of theft and fraudulent practices, as well as felonious misconduct in office” for allegedly helping herself to $13.5k. The State Auditor discovered that she “failed to deposit” the
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President Trump signed into law H.R. 1892, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, just hours after the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 71-28 and the House by a margin of 240-186 this month. The BBA resolved numerous non-tax law-related issues for the federal government on a bipartisan basis,
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Noyes, a 110-year-old wealth management and investment banking firm, intends to acquire more accounting and tax firms after buying Kiely & Associates, LLC, a 25-year-old Chicago tax and accounting practice, last month. The addition of Kiely & Associates will provide family office, tax and business
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A federal gas tax increase to help pay for upgrading U.S. roads and bridges would fall hardest on states won by Donald Trump in 2016, according to a report released Tuesday by two groups tied to the billionaire Koch brothers and opposed to increasing the levy. The impact of raising the gas tax by 25
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