CliftonLarsonAllen collaborates with Wall Street Blockchain Alliance; Batts Morrison Wales & Lee opens Plano office; and more news from CPA offices across the country.

Blue & Co. hires four in three offices; RubinBrown adds five in three states; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

U.S. retailers came out swinging against new tariffs that will be imposed against China, saying they represent a $50 billion tax on American consumers.

Do you suffer from IRS Audit Complacency Disease? Typically, taxpayers contract this affliction after the IRS has finished their continuous audit, packed up their belongings, and left the building.

The tax prep giant will help taxpayers safely dispose of documents they don’t need on March 24.

Lawmakers are on the cusp of settling on a $1.3 trillion bill to avoid a government shutdown this weekend after reaching compromises on a fix to the tax law and other issues.

December’s reform law could help drive down the take.

The European Union published proposals Wednesday for a 3 percent Digital Turnover Tax on the European B2B revenues of digital giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon (termed GAFA in Europe), Uber and Airbnb.

The high court, in a 7 to 2 decision, ruled in favor of a business owner who didn’t file taxes and destroyed some of his banking records, finding the omnibus obstruction clause in the Tax Code was overly broad.

The omnibus appropriations bill that lawmakers are expected to approve ahead of a Friday deadline to avoid a government shutdown includes extra money for the Internal Revenue Service to implement the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, while changing a provision in the TCJA that advantaged farm cooperatives over other types of grain companies.