Lawyers for Donald Trump were met with skepticism from federal appeals court judges as they made their latest attempt to block New York prosecutors from getting their hands on his tax filings and other financial documents through a grand jury subpoena.

Those impacted in a number of Alabama counties now have longer to file and make tax payments.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving taxpayers and practitioners some extra time if they tried to file their returns on Sept. 15 through CCH Axcess, but were unable to do so because of a system outage.

Despite the many, many downsides of COVID-19, one of the biggest silver linings has been that it forced CPAs and accountants into being true advisors to their clients.

Apple Inc.’s victory over a record back-tax order faces a challenge at the European Union’s top court as Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager seeks to rescue her crackdown on allegedly unfair fiscal deals doled out to multinational companies.

The new product comes after Avalara bought Compli, which provides compliance services, technology and software to producers, distributors and importers of alcoholic beverages in the United States, last year.

VSCPA forms Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Council; Mauldin & Jenkins launched new tax prep service; and more CPA news.

Wagepoint receives $10 million investment; Inflo debuts Workpapers for digital audits; and SIX releases data service for assessing tax-related costs.

The shutdown in March forced O&G firms to confront the inefficiencies of their financial processes.

Ratcliffe and other senior Ineos executives caused tension with the company’s auditor, PwC.

For tax returns with a Sept. 15 due date that were affected by an e-filing software outage, the IRS will treat a return and any elections that were filed with that return as timely filed if the taxpayer successfully e-filed the return and any elections by Sept. 17, 2020.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is members and affiliates with each other after a successful pilot test in six markets.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting and Thomson Reuters Checkpoint have released their predictions for the expected annual inflation adjustments from the Internal Revenue Service for various tax-related items.

Most companies don’t expect to reduce their office space in the coming year.

The Top 50 Firm is expanding in Texas and New Mexico with its latest deal.

KPMG is already starting to use the new standards to improve audit quality globally.

A Panama sentencing; ‘subcontractor’ mess; fun with funds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

President Trump issued a presidential memorandum on Aug. 8, 2020, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to permit employers to defer the employee portion of Social Security taxes between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020. On Aug. 28, 2020, the Treasury issued Notice 2020-65, providing a few details about how the deferral should work. The White House has announced that the deferral will be put into effect for all federal employees. Many private employers remain concerned about aspects of the deferral that may lead them to decide against implementation. While the deferral period has already begun, employers could still decide to start deferral later in the period.

The annual Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance event will be held online from Oct. 28-30, 2020.

If the pandemic has a silver lining, it’s that the global accounting world is becoming smaller and borderless.