Monthly Archive: August 2017

Don’t Take the Bait, Step 6: Watch Out for the W-2 Email Scam

IR-2017-130, August 15, 2017 WASHINGTON – The IRS, state tax agencies and the tax industry today urged tax professionals and businesses to beware of a recent increase in email scams targeting employee Forms W-2. The W-2 scam – called a…
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Tax pros doubt reforms this year

By Michael Cohn Published August 08 2017, 4:15pm EDT Nearly three-quarters of tax, finance and business professionals are not confident that comprehensive tax reform will be passed in Congress in 2017, according to a recent Deloitte poll, while nearly half…
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China Finds Big-Ticket Spending Is a Road to Nowhere
Beijing is trying to kick its habit of using big-ticket stimulus spending on infrastructure, a turning point from a growth model that has left many Chinese cities adorned with empty high-rises and underused highways.
MTV Owner's Streaming Strategy: If You Can't Beat Them, Feed Them
Viacom is rebooting MTV’s “The Real World” franchise for Facebook, the latest sign that the cable-TV giant has stopped fighting the growing dominance of digital players like Netflix and is instead producing shows—and soon movies—for them.
Defense Firms Struggle With Security-Clearance Backlog
An exacerbated workforce crunch for makers of warships, jet fighters and cybersecurity systems is forcing them to resort to workarounds to finish Pentagon orders.
Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust?
As IPO proposals value Uber at an eye-popping $120 billion, auto makers are racing to gain ground in everything from car sharing to driverless technology. At stake: who will control the future of transportation.
John Mack, Old-School Financier, Coaches Fintech Wannabes
Since handing over the reins at Morgan Stanley, John Mack has been working with financial-technology startups, dabbling in bitcoin and watching as Wall Street gives way to a mellower brand of finance.