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Accounting Professor Indicted on Fraud Charges Over Embezzlement Claims

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of embezzling money invested by a business partner into a company they set up to buy Texas properties sold at auctions due to unpaid taxes. The charges identified Kroger as a professor of business and accounting, but does not specify where. In April 2020, he requested that Texas Tax Sales Resource Group wire $169,735.62

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. Placing A Bet On Online Gambling. The rise of online and mobile (legal) gambling is providing benefits to reloadable and store-value cards, and driving innovation.

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Missouri Bill Reintroduces R&D Tax Credit and Changes to State and Local Tax Treatment and MO Works Program

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A Missouri bill, HB 2400, could affect businesses across the state with several provisions impacting the R&D tax credit, Missouri Works program, the State and Local Tax Parity Act and more. New Missouri R&D Tax Credit. State and Local Tax Opportunities.

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Making crypto a less taxing challenge

Accounting Insight

Whether or not you believe crypto is the next big thing (to be frank, no one can deny the huge progress the industry has made in the last few years) it’s got to the stage where accountants can’t ignore it. In its early years HMRC considered it to be gambling and therefore didn’t count any gains for tax purposes.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY’s Paying Big For the Everest Failure; PwC UK Delays Promotions | 2.12.24

Going Concern

EY piled more than $700mn of extra debt on to its global operating business to deal with the costs of the failed plan to spin off its consulting arm, according to newly filed accounts. Between a wave of retirees and a drop in the number of people graduating with accounting degrees, the whole profession is struggling to staff up. “We

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And take our 2024 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey ! Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default.

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Top 10 Outrageous Things You Are Taxed On | You Won’t Believe This

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And we’ll be talking about that in today’s post – the 10 most outrageous things you are taxed on. Top 10 Outrageous Things You Are Taxed On. The first one on our list of outrageous things you are taxed on probably never crossed your mind – illegal activities. Let’s dive in! Illegal Activities.

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