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Tax Fraud Blotter: Who ya gonna call?

Accounting Today

Lexington, Kentucky: Business owner Matthew Buresh has been sentenced to two years in prison for two counts of failure to pay taxes. Brown and other ghost preparers who worked with him falsified 63 federal income tax returns for clients, causing the Treasury to issue $1,003,631 in false tax refunds.

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Friday Footnotes: AI More Trusted Than CPAs; We’re Interested in Carried Interest Again; Is Consulting So Back? | 2.7.25

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Gregg Township faced difficult questions about how such a large sum of taxpayer funds went unaccounted for so long, including by auditors who annually examine the townships financial picture. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) has stepped up to the plate and reintroduced, for the umpteenth time, a measure to do just that.

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When a Bank Fails, People ‘Lose Faith’ in the Auditors

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bank customers — find it difficult to trust auditors when those auditors have been associated with a failed bank. Via KU (Kentucky University) News : The word “audit” has a different meaning depending on whether you’re an individual or a bank. This leads to lower deposit growth at banks with the same auditor.

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What was new in September for state sales and use taxes

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Auditors reported problems with the Louisiana Sales and Use Tax Commission for Remote Sellers. Kentucky has released a “Sales Tax Facts” sheet detailing services that become taxable as of Jan. Overall sales tax collections remain above pre-pandemic baselines in most states, even if the rate has slowed. Blue bayou.

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Friday Footnotes: Tim Ryan Works Too Hard; Fake CPA Gets Violent Over QuickBooks Files; PwC PR | 10.20.23

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Tennessee’s largest CPA firm announces expansion into Kentucky [ The Tennessean ] One of the Nashville area’s top-ranked business consulting firms is expanding its services to Kentucky. Many records and documents requested by auditors were not provided by Williams and had been transferred to his personal laptop.

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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 My guess is that changes … but that doesn’t exist today.”

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Friday Footnotes: CPAs Need to Get Contemporary; Internal Audit Priorities for 2024; A PwC Comic Book? | 8.30.24

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Practice Management We interrupt your regularly scheduled news links with a message from Accountingfly: Are you struggling to find remote accountants, CAS experts, auditors, or tax professionals for your firm or internal team? According to the auditor’s office, issues found included: Nineteen disbursements totaling more than $1.5

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