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JANUARY 8, 2008

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IRS gives taxpayers greater control over records held by tax preparers
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released final regulations and a related revenue procedure giving taxpayers greater protection and control over their tax return information held by tax return preparers. Treasury and the IRS also issued a separate request for public comment on a proposal to restrict the marketing of refund anticipation loans and similar products.

Lawrence Summers announced as TCPI keynote speaker
The Tax Council Policy Institute has announced that former Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers, an expert on domestic economics and a leading authority on international finance, will deliver the keynote speech at its 9th Annual Tax Policy and Practice Symposium, scheduled for Feb. 20-21, at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

SEC releases new XBRL analytical tool
XBRL US, Inc., the nonprofit consortium dedicated to the adoption of XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), a technology standard for the reporting of financial and business information in the U.S., strongly supports the Securities and Exchange Commission's launch of an online, interactive tool that allows investors to instantly extract, compare, and analyze executive compensation for the largest 500 companies in the United States.

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Anita Campbell: The Complete Small Business Blog
Yes, It COULD Happen to You: Keeping Data Secure

I woke up Christmas morning to find that one of my websites had been hacked! What a present. In my case the site was purely a content site. The site databases had no customer data, no credit card information, no sensitive company information. I couldn't help but think how much worse it would have been, had the site contained sensitive information....

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Toronto must pay for tax campaign
The City of Toronto, Ontario, hoping to raise taxes by imposing a new one cent tax on municipal services, has so far, generated a cost to the city of nearly $50,000.

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Publisher's Note

Last week's "Top 10 Vegetarian-Friendly Universities" list generated some terrific comments from those of you who attended the list of ten universities that we published (courtesy of Food Management Magazine). Those who wrote to me have dazzling AccountingWEB t-shirts coming soon.

Kate Morgan-Chu, a Northwestern University (#1 on the list) graduate, now resides in Oakland, California. Although she's not a vegetarian, Kate did tell me that the Northwestern salad bar was incredible. Northwestern apparently also serves fantastic warm chocolate chip cookies.

Stanford was not on the top ten list. Kate's husband graduated from Stanford, where he witnessed a rather curious site one day while walking to class. A truck was unloading boxes into the student cafeteria; the boxes were labeled "Grade-C Beef - Fit for Human Consumption."

It's hard to beat a good salad bar.....

Rob Nance
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Registration open for FLBA Virtual Business Challenge
Student registration is open for the Future Business Leaders Of America Virtual Business Challenge.

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Marcum & Kliegman LLP wins awards for creative marketing initiatives
Marcum & Kliegman LLP, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants, won two MarCom awards for its recruiting video entitled "The Place to Be" and the "M&K Business Heroes" advertising campaign.

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