Tax Fraud Blotter: Know any good dependents?

Teemco player; reverse that merger!; ATM gamble doesn’t pay off; and other highlights of recent tax cases.


States paying the most taxes to U.S. will take biggest hit from SALT deduction limit

Some of the states that are paying the highest amounts in federal taxes are also the ones that will be hurt the most by the $10,000 limit on the SALT deduction.


IRS keeps cutting back on audits of millionaires and big businesses

The agency is subjecting a relatively small percentage of wealthy taxpayers to tax audits, and less than half of the biggest corporations in the U.S.


Grassley says he wants Trump’s tax returns when House gets them

One of the few Republicans with the power to request the documents wants to make sure that if Democrats are successful in getting them, he wants them too.


Eurofins won’t use auditor who also worked for CEO’s firm

The laboratory-testing company facing criticism for its corporate governance, will no longer use an auditor for its Luxembourg subsidiaries who was contemporaneously signing off on the accounts of businesses controlled by the company’s largest shareholder.


RoseRyan launches firm to target cannabis businesses

Accounting firm RoseRyan has created a consultancy called Kukuza Associates to focus on servicing businesses in the growing cannabis market.


The IRS is issuing new ACA penalties

Lost amid the confusion of the federal government shutdown this year was a new set of penalties the IRS began to issue as part of the agency’s ongoing enforcement of the Affordable Care Act.


Google, Amazon tax shows need for EU majority vote, France says

The European Union’s inability to agree on taxing Internet giants like Google and Amazon shows the need for majority voting at the soon-to-be 27-member bloc, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said.


FASB changes accounting for episodic TV series

The new standard adjusts the way companies account for the production costs of films and episodic content produced for TV and online streaming services.


ADP finds private sector added 183,000 jobs in February

The red-hot economy shows some possible signs of cooling, particularly among small companies.