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Navigating Graduation Season: Essential Tax Planning for Your Clients' Changing Family Dynamics

Insightful Accountant

Education Credits: Timing Is Everything The American Opportunity Tax Credit offers up to $2,500 per student for the first four years of undergraduate education, with 40% being refundable. Parents in higher tax brackets typically benefit more from claiming this credit than their newly graduated children.

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IRS FIRE's going out for 2027 tax season

Accounting Today

EDT 1 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Tax year 2026 and filing season 2027 are the target date for retiring the Filing Information Returns Electronic, or FIRE, system. The IRS is encouraging tax preparers to complete their IRIS applications to begin transitioning for the 2027 season.

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Tax Firms Without AI Strategies Will Fall Behind (and Fast), New Study Warns​

CPA Practice

OBannon A new study from Thomson Reuters comes with a stark warning to the tax and accounting industry: firms without artificial intelligence strategies could fall irrevocably behind in the next 12 months as competing firms leverage the technology to transform faster, serve better, and hire smarter.​

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Sales Tax Hive Roundtable Launches to Help Bookkeepers and Accountants Tackle Sales Tax with Confidence

CPA Practice

OBannon The Sales Tax Sisters, Mary Thomas (Attorney and CPA) and Stephanie Thomas (CPA), are excited to announce their partnership with Roundtable Labs to launch The Sales Tax Hive , a new roundtable community designed exclusively for bookkeepers, accountants, and finance professionals navigating the complexities of sales and use tax.

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IRS Reminds Tax Pros of Requirement for a Written Information Security Plan (WISP)

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OBannon The Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners are reminding tax professionals about the federal mandate to have a Written Information Security Plan (WISP) designed to help protect them against threats from identity thieves and data breaches. IRS provides resources to help with this process.

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RSM announces $1B agentic AI investment

Accounting Today

The firm will be fully integrating agentic AI into RSMs assurance, tax and consulting services; empowering RSM talent with agentic AI tools to heighten productivity and professional growth; and expanding agentic AI-driven solutions to elevate the overall client experience. All rights reserved.

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Accounting is changing, and the world can't wait until 2026

Accounting Today

We must confront a critical question: If we continue to train accountants solely to file tax reports, are we truly equipping them for the challenges of todays world? All rights reserved. Yet, in many areas, accounting education stubbornly clings to outdated, overly technical models that fail to connect with the actual demands of the market.