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Tax Compliance; Enhancements with Analytics

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Tax agencies have a limited amount of resources to pursue tax compliance activities (collections and audit). While the selection process typically utilizes available data, cases are primarily selected based on experience, intuition and business rules, rather than using predictive, mathematically generated analytical models.

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Reuters, KPMG Team For Aussie Business Taxes

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Business information firm Thomson Reuters is teaming up with global tax company KPMG to offer Australia businesses a solution to deal with fringe benefits taxes (FBT), Thomson Reuters announced Thursday (Feb. The ONESOURCE FBT software automates the tax calculations necessary to file an FBT return. “Our

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EY Debuts Corporate Crypto Accounting, Tax Solution

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EY announced in a press release this week that its new crypto accounting tool targets the tax preparation process. The CAAT solution automates data collection and automatically generates reports for visibility and analytics, while supporting IRS tax return preparation.

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What are analytical procedures and their benefits?

Abrigo

Analytical procedures are beginning to become more prevalent in the audit world. According to the AICPA, analytical procedures consist of reviewing financial information by studying plausible relationships between data and evaluating it for consistency. They can: • Improve the quality of the analytics. By Jackie McLaughlin, CPA.

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IRS Finds Discrepancies In Crypto Holders’ Tax Returns

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Last month it was revealed that the IRS was sending letters to about 10,000 cryptocurrency holders warning them about the penalties they will face if they don’t report their income or pay taxes on the transactions. Accountants have reported that their clients have been receiving letters in recent weeks.

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Technology Enabled Data Analytics: Friend or Foe?

Abrigo

With the increased availability of useful data, analytical review procedures are becoming more important during the audit process. For example, greater emphasis on analytics encourages and almost demands that the auditor improve the quality of their professional judgment and skepticism. A WAY TO OVERCOME BIAS IN THE AUDIT PROCESS.

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Here’s How Your Tax Day Stacks Up

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Tax season, that is. Curious to know how your taxes stacked up? million tax returns last year, some 88 percent of which were filed electronically. trillion in adjusted gross income — meaning a total tax liability of $1.52 percent federal tax rate. This means that federal income tax paid in 2015 averaged to $14,654.

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