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Rippling Expands EOR Program 2
Rippling has expanded its Employer of Record program to eight new countries. The change is part of the latest monthly release of the office application.
With EOR, a user can establish a legal entity in a country outside the United States, giving the user the ability to hire and pay employees in other countries. The latest additions are Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Israel, New Zealand, the Philippines, Switzerland and Turkey.
In addition, Rippling is providing hourly workers with a weekly break down of pay on paystubs so they can see hours worked, including overtime, for each of the weeks included in the pay period.
Users can now down payroll comparison data as a CSV file. Rippling says it has also provided more efficient time-entry CSV imports for Time an Attendance since users can automatically reconcile timestamps based on the employee’s timezone and
filter down to a specific set of imported entries and delete only those
They can also import thousands of entries in seconds, versus 30 minutes.
View items...Socius Buys the Dynamics Biz of CBiz
- Tuesday, 09 March 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
InterDyn Socius, a Microsoft and Sage reseller based in Ohio, has acquired the Dynamics practice of CBiz Technologies, extending Socius' operations to Tennessee, Kansas and northern California. The purchase follows CBiz recent disclosure it was selling three companies as it exited the technology business
Block Revs Drop as Number of Tax Returns Fall
- Monday, 08 March 2010
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
H&R Block got through the first weeks of tax season with a drop in business as it reported a 6.2 percent decline in revenue, but a 5 percent rise in net income for the third quarter ended January 31. The company said the revenue drop reflected a 7.1 percent decline in retail tax returns prepared and it had lost two percentage points in market share in selling digital products. Its business operations sector, RSM McGladrey, fared better with a 3.6 percent drop in revenue for the same quarter.
Thomson CS Suite SaaS Pricing Marks Radical Change
Thomson Reuters has spelled out the pricing for its SaaS for the CS Professional Suite this past week at a strategic update at the Dexter, Mich., headquarters of the unit that markets products such as UltraTax and WriteUp CS. And the pricing, which hadn't been previously published, shows just how the concept of what software is and how it will be sold is changing as applications go to the Internet.
Mobile Version of ADP Run Due in Q3
Payroll processing giant ADP is readying the lauch of moble payroll applictions for its Run payroll system in the September quarter with the intention of supporting all mobile devices including the iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Android. The company is already in putting together pilot projects for small and mid-market customers.
IRS Bars Attorney Who Blamed Late Filing on Sick Mother
- Thursday, 04 March 2010
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
WASHINGTON - Kevin Kilduff, a Massachusetts tax attorney, has been barred from practicing before the Internal Revenue Service for a minimum of 48 months for failing to file one federal tax return and for filing another five returns late. Kilduff, who once worked for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, had blamed his late filings on his need to take care of his sick mother.
CCH Integrates Tax News/Corporate Tax
- Wednesday, 03 March 2010
- News
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
RIVERWOODS, Ill. - CCH has integrated its Global Daily Tax News, which provides information on developments, with its Worldwide Tax Rates and Answers. The integration has been accomplished through the available of a heading "Global Daily Tax News" that appears on Smart Charts, which display the results of corporate tax research.
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Thomson Reorg Signals Expansion in the Americas
- Wednesday, 03 March 2010
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Thomson Reuters has reorganized its software operations for the tax and accounting business in a move that also paves the way for the company to move products from this arena into Latin America. The move put elevated Jon Baron to the position of president of the Americas, workflow and service solutions, which supplants the previous Professional & Software Services of which Baron was president.
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CCH Customer Tax Spending Nearly Doubles
CCH has been able to get its tax and accounting customers to nearly double their spending on the company's predicts over the last three years. That figure emerged in a question-and-answer session that followed the report of 2009 financial results by the company's parent Wolters Kluwer last month.
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Intuit's Sees Drop in Sale of Pro Tax Packages
- Tuesday, 23 February 2010
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
The number of professional tax units sold by Intuit, which markets the Lacerte and ProSeries software packages, dropped for the second straight year, falling to 95,000 for the second quarter ended January 31, down from 97,000 a year earlier and 98,000 for the same quarter in 2007. Meanwhile revenue for those product lines dropped to $124 million for the most recently ended quarter, down $133 million a year earlier.
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Thomson Says Checkpoint Revenues Boom
- Friday, 26 February 2010
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- Written by The Progressive Accountant
In a year in which its chief competitor, CCH, launched a new research platform, Thomson Reuters said its own Checkpoint system had its best month of sales in the product's history. That came as Thomson Reuters reported revenue for its tax and accounting business rose by 9 percent while the unit's operating profit dropped by one percent for the year ended Dec. 31, 2009.
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