US audits find fewer business tax cheats, data show
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The push by the head of the US tax agency for quick completion of audits of big corporations - a move criticized by many longtime agency auditors - has led to a sharp drop in the discovery of tax cheating at the 11,000 largest businesses, according to new
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An inspection of Canada&#39;s big four audit firms has found no material problems with the work the Bay Street firms conduct, but did find three cases out of 46 examined that did not meet generally accepted auditing standards.
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The pace of corporate audits by the Internal Revenue Service continued to decline in the first six months of fiscal 2004, despite IRS pledges to crack down on tax violators, an analysis of government data shows. The IRS differed with the findings.
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A U.S. federal audit shows the FBI is losing fewer weapons and laptop computers but at least 10 of the computers missing contained classified information.
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U.S. tax authorities are seeking  information from two U.S. banks to determine whether complex  derivatives trades they undertook for clients, including hedge  funds, were designed primarily to avoid taxes, the Wall Street  Journal reported in its online edition on Thursday.
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Fewer Americans filed jobless claims  last week and growth in worker productivity slowed sharply in  the third quarter, government data showed on Thursday, hinting  that conditions in the sluggish U.S. labor market have  improved.
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A taxpayer who made more than $1 million had a one-in-16 chance of being audited by the IRS in the fiscal year just ended, up slightly from the year before.
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NEW YORK - The effective tax rate for America&#39;s largest and most profitable corporations has sharply declined in recent years, and one third of such companies paid zero taxes--or less--in at least one of the last three years, according to a study released
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The four biggest accounting firms misapplied some standards and failed to properly maintain records of some audits, the new US auditing regulator said today in its first inspection reports.
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Pension plans may have lower investment gains when they use consultants who have undisclosed conflicts of interest, according to a new report.
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Small businesses were less optimistic about US economic growth last month than in July, and fewer expected sales to increase in the coming months, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business.
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Rules to prevent fraud going undetected at US companies are to be amended after complaints they are too costly.
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WASHINGTON -- The first inspections of the Big Four accounting firms by the board overseeing the industry turned up significant problems in their audits of companies&#39; books and quality control, but the findings don&#39;t constitute a &quot;broad negative assessment
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American retailers have revealed further evidence that US shoppers are cutting back
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The push by the commissioner of Internal Revenue for quick completion of audits of big corporations - a move criticized by many longtime agency auditors - has led to a sharp drop in the
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merica&#39;s largest and most profitable companies paid less in corporate income taxes in the last three years, even as they increased profits, according to a study released yesterday.
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There's at least one advantage to not being a millionaire Â less chance of being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.