Client communications

Communicating with Clients in Difficult Times

The trusted, knowledgeable adviser must be proactive. Clients trust their CPAs and the advice, information, and education they provide.

Concerns About CPA Letters to Third Parties

A CPA receives a request from a client to provide a letter to the client’s mortgage broker, lender, adoption agency, or other third party. Is there any harm in the CPA signing the client’s suggested letter or writing one of her own?

Newsletter Articles

Tax Clinic

New York’s response to Wayfair: Storms on the horizon?

Passthrough entity taxes: The next workaround trend?

Tax accounting for businesses after the TCJA: Some widely applicable and lesser-known changes

Tax time travel: Securing relief from unforced errors, missed elections, and other mistakes

TECHNOLOGY

2018 tax software survey

Among CPA tax preparers, tax return preparation software generates often extensive and ardent discussion. To get through the rigors of tax season, they depend on their tax preparation software. Here’s how they rate the leading professional products.

DEDUCTIONS

Qualified business income deduction regs. and other guidance issued

The package includes final regulations, guidance on how to calculate W-2 wages, a safe-harbor rule for rental real estate businesses, and new proposed rules on the treatment of previously suspended losses.

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