The American Institute of CPAs today continued its push to get the Internal Revenue Service to ease the adoption of mandatory e-filing by changing the threshold for tax preparers who must efile from a minimum of 100 returns to 200 returns. That was one key recommendation in the testimony by Kathy Petronchak, vice chair of AICPA's IRS Practice and Procedures Committee, at an IRS hearing last week.

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service has opened the tax filing season with the announcement that the filing deadline for individual returns has been extended to Monday, April 18. That's because The District of Columbia is celebrating Emancipation Day on Friday, April 15, giving taxpayers around the country the extra days. Read more...

A list of the top technology issues for 2011 starts with the word mobile. And after that  come the words mobile and mobile. Mobile is hot, even if it's not clear exactly how such technology applies in running business in general and tax and accounting firms in particular.