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What was new in September for state sales and use taxes

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There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. The Urban Institute told news outlets that 25 states recently reported year-over-year declines in sales tax receipts, a jump of more than a third in just a month. Nationwide, sales tax receipts were up 1.5% Inflation bites. in real terms.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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Big 4 Big Four Lobby Congress on Accounting Pipeline, AI, Crypto [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC spent the most at $3.27 In a summary of the report, Linklaters said six unidentified partners outside Australia should have asked where the tax information had come from and that disciplinary action had been taken against them. “Win big?

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What’s new in sales tax?

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There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. The Court of Appeals of South Carolina has affirmed a state Administrative Law Court (ALC) finding that the online retail giant remains liable for eight figures in unpaid sales tax on third-party sales from 2016, interest and penalties. The ol’ one-two.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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I would have thought that accountants would be seen as boring, but effective and the perfect person to do a good job on your tax return,” Wijnand Van Tilburg, a study co-author and senior lecturer in the university’s psychology department, said in a statement last week. PCAOB Spotlight PDF here.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Is Tops in M&A Advisory; What You Can Do With a MAcc; EY Consolidates in LatAm | 4.28.23

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News The leak that puts a multibillion-dollar industry at risk [ Sydney Morning Herald ] A foolish attempt to help multinational companies avoid paying tax in Australia has spectacularly backfired on the multibillion-dollar professional services industry, infuriating Canberra and potentially costing these high-profile firms billions in fees.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

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In this environment of increased scrutiny of auditors, audit firms must double down on a culture of integrity and ensure that they have quality control systems in place to enforce compliance. There’s not any sort of regulation around who can be an auditor ,” Rood said. “My Widmer Roel made some promotions.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Partners’ Snazzy Secret Meeting; PwC Talks Layoffs; Merger Mania! | 8.19.22

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Regulator Requires Audit Firms, Individual Auditors to Apply to Join New Register [ Wall Street Journal ] The U.K. said Stephen Rowe, associate accounting professor at the University of Arkansas and a former Big Four auditor. “It Audit: U.K. 5, the FRC said. ” Oh, Reddit. Please never change.

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