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Cohen & Co. to Move Into Buffalo After Acquiring CPA and Consulting Firms

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With a team that has decades of previous experience working as government tax auditors, the tax consulting firm specializes in state residency services and audit defense for ultra-high-net-worth individuals. PEAR’s tax consulting work complements much of Cohen & Co.’s

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PwC Australia is Very Very Sorry, You Guys

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Internal emails exposed by legislative committee in May showed that dozens of partners and staff received emails discussing how the firm could “ exploit, for profit, information the former partner had gleaned while advising the government on creating the multinational tax avoidance laws.” There was poor decision making.

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5 Common Sales Tax Mistakes That Can Put You At Risk for Non-Compliance

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In general, sales tax exemptions are statutory exceptions eliminating the need for the retailer to collect sales tax on a particular transaction or on all transactions with a customer. The most common exemption is a “sale for resale,” which allows businesses to purchase products free of tax.

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Multi-channel selling sales tax: Direct/retail sales

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Any way you handle it, sales tax is getting harder to properly, legally and completely comply with. Sales tax nexus is the concept that enables state and local governments to require businesses to collect and remit sales tax on the products and services they sell. Assessing your footprint.

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We Could Soon Know the Results (If Any) of the Feds’ Raid of Alliantgroup

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Since then we still haven’t learned exactly why the IRS paid a visit to the tax consulting firm’s Houston headquarters. And if the hearing doesn’t go as planned for the government, we may never find out why the raid was conducted. No arrests were made that day.

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Revived Andersen Accounting Firm Sees Revenue Up 19% This Year

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tax consultants known as Wealth & Tax Advisory Services LLP. The company sees an opportunity to help government officials attract private capital and form new public-private partnerships, Vorsatz said. The effects of the scandal can still be seen today: U.S. The company now has 14,000 of these professionals worldwide.

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4 Tips on How Small Businesses Can Reduce Taxes

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As a small business owner, tax liability is the money you owe the government when your business generates income. With changing laws and gray areas regarding deductions, exemptions, and credits, it’s no wonder small business owners rank taxes at the top of the list of the most stress-inducing aspect of business ownership.

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