Trump’s threat to kill GM’s tax credit subsidies prompts skeptical response

A legislative repeal of the credit could actually end up giving GM a better competitive position.


In the blogs: Declawed

Reform and job creation; Ohio takes bitcoin; getting everyone to agree; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.


GASB proposes implementation guidance for standards

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board proposed implementation guidance Tuesday to help explain some of its pronouncements.


BMSS merges in Hall Albright Garrison & Barnes

Barfield Murphy Shank & Smith, a Regional Leader firm based in Birmingham, Alabama, is adding Hall Albright Garrison & Barnes, based in Huntsville, effective Jan. 1, 2019.


AccuFund updates include a bot

The addition of a bot is a move in step with the major boom in machine learning and artificial intelligence in the accounting software market.


Crowe acquires Asset Optimization Group

Crowe LLP, a Top 100 Firm based in Chicago, said Wednesday it has signed a deal to buy Asset Optimization Group LLC, a Toledo, Ohio-based health care technology and consulting firm, from Hylant Group Inc., effective Dec. 1, 2018.


Tech tax advocates said to prepare last-ditch push for EU deal

Resistance continues against a levy that divides the region’s governments and threatens to fragment its single market.


Danish pension fund chief quits amid tax dodge controversy

The chief executive officer of Denmark’s biggest fund will step down for allegedly trying to dodge Swiss taxes while running a unit of Nordea Bank a decade ago.


IRS proposes rules for business interest expense deduction limit

A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act limits the tax break for some taxpayers.


Ohio to accept business tax payments in cryptocurrency

The Buckeye State will be the first to allow companies to use Bitcoin to pay their taxes.