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WK Tax/Accounting Revs Up 4 percent
Revenue or Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting rose 4 percent year-over-year for the nine months ended September 30, the company said in its recent trading update. North American revenue, which comprises 62 percent of the quarter, increased by 4 percent. Read more...
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Intuit Seeks Accountant Council Members
Intuit has openings on the Intuit QuickBooks Accountant Council for positions starting in June. The software… Read more...

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Intuit Tests Bookkeeping Prices
Intuit has launched a test of pricing for QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping. The company said in… Read more...
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How to Discourage Client Price Shopping
Do clients ever tell you they've priced-shopped your services? Do they ever leave with no… Read more...

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Tax Season "Sanity": A Catalyst for Success
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Surgent Partners for Accounting Courses

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Six Software Companies Form Emburse
Emburse has been formed by six companies that market expense and AP software. The companies that have combined are Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie, according to an announcement this month. Read more...
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Microsoft Extends XP Anti-Virus Support
Microsoft has given users of its Windows XP operating system more time to adjust to… Read more...

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Financial Apps on your Mobile Phones
Smartphones have already grown beyond any reasonable expectation of slow and steady wins the race.… Read more...
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CCH Axcess: Emphasis on Automation

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Tax Returns Fall Further Behind 2019
The traditional tax season deadline of April 15 is past. And with the extension of the due date to July 15 the total returns received by the Internal Revenue Service fell further behind last year. Read more...
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IRS Reports Eight Days of Filing
The Internal Revenue Service has reported there were 34,693,000 tax returns filed in the first eight… Read more...

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Late Forms Cut Intuit’s Tax Pro Revenue
Revenue for Intuit’s ProConnect Group was hurt by a delay in forms availability, the software company… Read more...
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Late Tax Season Start Cuts Intuit 2Q
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Top Five Sales Tax Errors
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How Sales Tax Impacts Company Growth Interview with Jerome Kaiser, Chief Financial Officer, SeneGence International
Patrick O’Leary, Associate Publisher, PMG360 recently sat down with Jerome Kaiser, CPA and CFO of… Read more...
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Plante Moran Names CMO
Plante Moran has hired Martin van Pelt as its next chief marketing officer. The accounting firm said this week Van Pelt will succeed Jeff Antaya, who is retiring after on August 31 after 13 years with Plante Moran. Read more...
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Weaver Promotes Names Six New Partners
Weaver, a Dallas, Texas-based accounting firm, has named six employees as partners. These include Sara… Read more...

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TaxAct Parent Names CEO
Blucora, which owns the TaxAct software line, has named John Clendening as president and CEO… Read more...
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Special Report: Payroll and Beyond
The coronavirus has helped make the argument for the use of online payroll systems. With the cloud, you can still run payroll and issue checks, even if no one is in the office. But it has also put accountants on the hook for being able to answer an increasing number of client questions about human resources issues, including furloughing and…
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2009 Tax Preparation Software Review
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LexisNexis Tool Used to Fight Georgia Tax Fraud

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

LexisNexis says that the State of Georgia is utilizing one of its products in a pilot program aimed at fighting identity fraud. The LexisNexis Tax Refund Investigative Solution has been used since the program was launched in January and utilizes identity verification and authentication tools to find and hopefully halt the filing of fradulent tax returns.

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LexisNexis Tool Used to Fight Georgia Tax Fraud

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