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Author: Caleb Newquist
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Accounting News Roundup: Being a REIT Is So Hot Right Now; Scott London’s Time Away From Skechers; Say Hello to Grant Thornton Kyrgyzstan | 04.22.13
Restyled as Real Estate Trusts, Varied Businesses Avoid Taxes [NYT]The trust structure has been around […]
Footnotes: Boy Scouts Coming Around to Jim Turley’s Point of View; Read Bob Herz’s Book; Taxing Ice Cream Cakes in Wisco | 04.19.13
The Boy Scouts seem to have come around to Jim Turley's point of view on […]
IRS Employees’ Extra Week of Vacation Has a Few Conditions
Condition 1: They won't be paid; Condition 2: Jesus, does it matter? They won't be […]
Dead Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Didn’t Take to Accounting
The Associated Press reports that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old bombing suspect who was killed overnight, […]
BREAKING: People Put Crappy Coffee on Their Expense Reports
An astounding report by Certify, a travel and expense management provider, found that Starbucks is […]
IRS to Whistleblower: “Thanks for the worthless tip. We Award You No Points.”
The Internal Revenue Service has rejected a reward claim made by a whistleblower, former banker […]
Accounting News Roundup: Doty: Auditors ‘flirting with stagnation’; Scott London: Cartoon Crook; Who Loves Doing Their Taxes? | 04.19.13
Audit market “flirting with stagnation”, says PCAOB chair [Accountancy Age]The audit market is "flirting with […]
Footnotes: KPMG Revisiting Safeguards; The Corporate Tax Game; IRS Employees Have Been Bad at Something Besides Acting | 04.18.13
KPMG Plans Review Amid Trading Case [WSJ] The PCAOB has created a list of all […]
(UPDATE) KPMG Has Been Without Email Most of the Day; Yes, Some People Are Freaking Out
We've confirmed with a number of people at KPMG that the firm's email service has […]
It’s Rarely a Good Sign When a Tax Prep Business Closes Its Doors Three Days Prior to April 15th
A Sunset Hills accounting business closed abruptly last week just days before the tax deadline. […]
PwC’s Transparency Gives Its Employees the Warm Fuzzies
Yesterday we discussed the Vault business outlook rankings for public accounting firms. In general, I thought […]