By the way, only 17% of respondents actually use the cloud themselves in their tax advisory work.
FORBES: Should You Check With Your Tax Advisor Before Moving to the Cloud?
Some lawmakers already fret that consulting and tax advisory (when the Big Four are explicitly helping companies make money) can be in conflict with auditing (where the firms should take a wary, outside view of the books, in the service of investors not management).
That makes S-Corp elections a wise choice for management companies focused on reducing SE tax on underlying advisory fee earned income.
George Bush named two retired senators, Connie Mack and John Breaux, to lead a bipartisan advisory panel on tax reform .
President George W. Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform met publicly Tuesday to work on a report, now scheduled for a Nov. 1 release, that is sure to call for simplification of the U.S. tax code and the reduction or elimination of some tax breaks.
Also reappearing this month is Deloitte, the professional services organization, which specializes in audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services.
Last year Goldman Sachs formed a Strategic Wealth Advisory Team of a dozen tax and estate lawyers who travel around the country advising investment banking customers.
Since last year, the taxmen have fired off a volley of advisory letters and audits asserting that Section 2703 of the tax code, passed in 1990, gives them broad power to disregard the existence of "abusive" limited partnerships for valuation purposes.
Like the others named to the tax reform task force, Feldstein also serves on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which is headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
It killed off an advisory body of businessmen, scientists and officials because it supported a carbon tax.
Paul Volcker's Economic Recovery Advisory Board has been given the unenviable but worthy task of simplifying our ridiculous tax code.
Mr Cameron's spokesman had said the prime minister had not mentioned the issue of Google's tax payments during discussions with Mr Schmidt, a member of the government's business advisory group.
BBC: Cameron hails tax 'turning point' after Google criticisms
In summary, CXO Advisory Group found no connection between the maximum U.S. capital gains tax rate and U.S. stock market returns, and no relationship between changes in the maximum capital gains rate and stock returns.
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This panel, the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, should recommend extending the no-new-Internet-tax forever.
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