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Mississippi, Texas storm victims get tax relief

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EDT 3 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Brad Vest/Photographer: Brad Vest/Getty Im Individuals and businesses in parts of Mississippi and Texas who were affected by severe weather that began in March now have until Nov. 3 to file various federal individual and business returns and make tax payments.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Scandal Somehow Gets More Scandalous; Deloitte Denied in Court; Withum Embiggens in Florida | 11.8.24

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The report also recommends that these private firms be limited to 400 partners, and that they be prevented from offering both audit and non-audit work – like consulting services – to the same client. million gift to the Patterson School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi. It’s free!

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Special Report: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards

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From tax prep to asset management, invoicing and portals, and auditing to remote CFO functions, the services the accounting and tax pros provide are dependent on the technologies they use. The awards highlight the most useful technology for firms and clients.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Negative waves

Accounting Today

Mellinger, who previously pleaded guilty , was also an insurance salesman and securities broker in Florida, Michigan, Mississippi and elsewhere. Mellinger III, was sentenced to eight years in prison for orchestrating a nearly decade-long scheme to promote an illegal tax shelter and to steal client funds.

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Tax Fraud Blotter: Boundless energy

Accounting Today

Mississippi: Attorney Charisse C. Harman, Modoc, indefinite from Nov. 20, 2024, and attorney Jason M. Smith, Seymour, indefinite from Oct. Massachusetts: Enrolled Agent Christine K. Kim, Burlington, indefinite from Nov. Gordon, Raymond, indefinite from Feb. Missouri: CPA William R. Tillmon III, St. Joseph, indefinite from Nov.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: BTFO PCAOB; Did the CPA Exam Evolve Without Academia? | 4.28.25

Going Concern

In addition, 13 faculty members (including 1 adjunct) suggested that accounting and auditing professionals work more closely with faculty members to update the accounting curriculum. He told members that he still has not gotten the data from JXN Water to complete the audit. Auditing munis is miserable work these days.

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Friday Footnotes: Is AI Actually Improving Audits?; Activists Try to Save Direct File | 7.18.25

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Audit Automated auditors: could AI undermine financial reporting? Paradoxically, AI can turn the audit into a black box,” he adds. Then, just 38 per cent of BDO’s audits were ranked as satisfactory. Here in Massachusetts, the collapse last year of Steward Health Care has been widely blamed on its ties to PE.