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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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According to his plea agreement, Fulton and his company provided bookkeeping, accounting, and tax preparation services for Wayne Joseph Nix, 46, of Newport Coast, a former minor-league baseball player who for nearly 20 years ran an illegal bookmaking business.

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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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IRS warns tax professionals to be aware of EFIN scam email; special webinars offered next week [ IRS ] The IRS warned that scammers are posing as tax software providers and requesting EFIN documents from tax professionals under the guise of a required verification to transmit tax returns.

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Friday Footnotes: Retired EY Partners Hate on the Split; It’s a Raid!; ‘An Alphabet Soup of Technology’ | 11.18.22

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Bam is a chartered accountant and an outstanding South African. The superseding indictment alleges that Garza directed clients to use hand-picked CPAs and other tax professionals, including McDonnell, Richardson and Fenton. an accounting, tax preparation, and legal services business located in Waxahachie.

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Friday Footnotes: Work-Life Balance, Does It Work?; Big 4 Firms Slash Job Postings; She Doesn’t Even Go Here! | 2.16.24

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Belgian accounting sector is overworked and turning away new clients [ The Brussels Times ] A significant portion of accounting firms across Belgium are contemplating downsizing as their workload continues to surge, raising alarms within the sector about potential implications for small businesses and startups, L’Echo reports.

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Advice for Tax Preparers Making tax preparers lives easier one blog at a time HOME. Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor. If you are going to be an accountant then you have to be able to laugh at yourself. A Democratic tax preparer PTINs the tail on the donkey. Longer Accounting Jokes.

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Friday Footnotes: Looking Elsewhere For Talent; MPs Talk Private Equity Concerns; The Burnout Queen | 8.25.23

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sent letters to the executives of Intuit, H&R Block, the American Coalition for Taxpayer Rights and the Free File Alliance, a group of tax preparation companies that provide free online services through the IRS website. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Katie Porter, D-Calif., So how come relationships between the two often go wrong?

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Friday Footnotes: Working Late; The Year of the ESOP?; It’s Not Layoffs, It’s “Repositioning” | 1.5.24

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Racial diversity in accounting has been treated as a “box-ticking exercise”, Atul said to The Mail on Sunday in December, even when professions are a magnet for minorities.