Pennsylvania passes licensure changes bill
Accounting Today
JUNE 27, 2025
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed a bill that establishes an additional path to CPA licensure, and it awaits Gov. Josh Shapiro's signature.
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Pennsylvania Senate Passes Legislation to Modernize CPA Licensure Requirements
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JUNE 17, 2025
"By offering CPA candidates an additional pathway to complete their licensure and improving mobility for out-of-state CPAs, Pennsylvania is positioned to increase membership in the profession," said state Sen. Scott Hutchinson.
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million in COVID-19 relief loans in Pennsylvania. million in COVID-19 relief loans in Pennsylvania has been sentenced, a federal official said. By Charles E. Ramirez The Detroit News (TNS) A certified public accountant from Detroit convicted of stealing $14.5 The judge also ordered him to pay $14.5 million in restitution to the U.S.
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PKF O’Connor Davies Adds Rainer & Co. in Pennsylvania
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a regional CPA firm with offices in Newtown Square and West Chester in Pennsylvania. The top 30 accounting firm said on June 2 it has acquired Rainer & Co.,
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Corporate Net Income Tax (CNIT) Reduction in Pennsylvania: A Boon for Law Firms
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Marketplace facilitators, holiday sales and tricky nexus
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By Chris Gaetano July 9 Practice management Franklin Alliance acquires second firm The PE-alternative Franklin Alliance acquired Robert Morris & Company in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, as it aims to create a platform of local CPA firms.
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Sales tax and streaming services
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Congress Passes One Big Beautiful Bill – President to Sign on July 4
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XcelLabs launches to help accountants use AI
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The Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs and CPA Crossings joined with Padar and Tolin as strategic partners and investors. "To XcelLabs provides solutions to help accountants use artificial technology fluently and strategically.
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Q-commerce and sales tax: the latest
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In February, the private equity-funded firm added Keystone Advisor Group , formerly known as Heckman & Laudeman, in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, in January. Platform, based in Holladay, Utah, invests in and acquires smaller accounting firms, frequently rebranding them. Last month, Platform added AKM Advisors , a firm based in New York.
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In a paper published Thursday in Science, an international peer-reviewed journal, Cary Coglianese, a law and political science professor at University of Pennsylvania, and Cynthia Giles, a former senior advisor at the U.S.
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Instead adds AI-driven tax reports
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New 2025 Filing Requirements for PA Nonprofits
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Starting January 2025, due to Pennsylvania Act 122, most domestic and foreign filing associations registered to do business in Pennsylvania are required to file an Annual Report. For more detailed information, you can visit the Pennsylvania Department of State’s website.
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Clothing taxation – and major exemptions
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States that do exempt clothing, such as Vermont and Pennsylvania (except for fur items in the latter), exempt a lot. Worn by humans Almost all states with a statewide sales tax treat sales tax on clothing differently, and a few states dont levy a statewide sales tax it at all (including, of course, the NOMAD states).
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What’s new in sales tax?
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AICPA News – July 2025
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Sierra Rose Overmoyer (Pennsylvania), a graduate of Shippensburg University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in accounting and finance, is employed with SEK CPAs & Advisors in Carlisle, PA.
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On the move: HCVT hired CAS co-leader
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On the move: Louis Plung & Co. names co-MP
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Tech news: Karbon Practice Management evolves into Practice Intelligence
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New year, new sales tax obligations
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Though some states (such as Pennsylvania ) have determined that an Amazon warehouse creates no physical nexus or special sales tax obligation for online sellers, this trend bears watching in the coming year. Several of the biggest facilitators might store your goods in a warehouse in a state that no one in your company has ever set foot in.
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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Clients Ask For an AI Discount; Big 4 Firms Losing Hundreds of Partners | 6.30.25
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State lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Delaware each voted on Thursday to pass their respective CPA pathways legislation, joining a growing number of states enacting new laws to provide alternative routes to obtaining a certified public accounting license and ease the accounting shortage. in the 12 months to May 2025.
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Remaking the partnership model for young accountants
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Tax Fraud Blotter: Prep perps
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Sirleaf, 65, of Darby, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to a multiyear scheme to help clients file false income tax returns to fraudulently increase their refunds, as well as to filing false personal income tax returns for himself. Philadelphia: Tax preparer James J.
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On the move: KPMG elects next Americas chair
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Franklin Alliance acquires second firm
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The PE-alternative Franklin Alliance acquired Robert Morris & Company in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, as it aims to create a platform of local CPA firms.
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Tax Fraud Blotter: Boundless energy
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Pennsylvania: CPA Michael A. Yeadon, Pennsylvania: Tax preparer James Jean, 57, has been sentenced to three years in prison, a year of supervised release, a $10,000 fine and restitution of $12,717 for including false energy credits in tax forms that he prepared for clients. New York: CPA Kimberly Johnson, Bronx, indefinite from Nov.
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Legal Panel Discusses Bipartisan Tax Reform Possibilities After the 2024 Election
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Congressman from Pennsylvania who served on the House Energy & Commerce Committee.
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Senate Republicans plan major revisions to Trump tax bill
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In contrast, a group of 13 Republican moderates, led by Pennsylvanias Brian Fitzpatrick and Virginias Jen Kiggans, urged senators to make changes that would benefit renewable energy projects, many in Republican districts, that came about through President Joe Bidens Inflation Reduction Act. By Paige Hagy June 6 Like what you see?
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On the move: Whitley Penn names global talent partner
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PENNSYLVANIA Centri, Philadelphia, promoted Zach Hill, Nate Saunders and Kevin Zeina to director. Community Foundation, in honor of Cohen & Co.s founder Ron Cohen, who died in August 2024. Weaver opened a new office in Philadelphia, located in Center City at 30 South 17th Street, Suite 1306.
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On the move: REDW appoints first OKC principal-in-charge
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PENNSYLVANIA Maggie Havelka Schneider Downs & Co., OKLAHOMA Kyle Stewart Kyle Stewart was appointed the first principal-in-charge of the Oklahoma City office at REDW Advisors & CPAs.
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Employers add 139K jobs, with 3,100 in accounting
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Accounting Payroll DoL Employment data Recruiting MORE FROM ACCOUNTING TODAY Technology XcelLabs launches to help accountants use AI Jody Padar and Katie Tolin debuted a training and technology platform, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs and CPA Crossings.
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Nick Pisciottano, D-Monroeville, have introduced Senate Bill 719, a proposal the lawmakers have been working on with the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) and the Pennsylvania Society of Tax and Accounting Professionals (PSTAP). appeared first on Going Concern.
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