Stories about: IRS

The US Internal Revenue Service has hit Symantec with a $US1 billion tax bill for allegedly under-reporting the value of intellectual property that the software vendor transferred to two Irish subsidiaries.

Video Ezy has outsourced its point of sale (POS) application helpdesk support to Applaud IT, which adds another high profile customer for the services company that has risen from the ashes of receivership.

As regulatory audits loom, wise executives have long ago abandoned the "save everything" approach to regulatory compliance, which is akin to stuffing receipts into a shoebox while hoping the IRS will go knocking elsewhere.

Caught up in the tangle of manually installing and updating software, enterprises can find a tip or two in the open source community’s book on how to streamline the process, according to Google senior system administrator Marc Merlin.

Imagine if dealing with the government online were as easy as dealing with Amazon.com, Dell, or Southwest Airlines. Want a building permit? No problem. Have to track a benefits check? Just a few clicks.

I spent one weekend this month putting my personal paper files in order. This meant spending a few hours shredding old bills and bank statements and moving payroll stubs and other IRS-sensitive documents to the tax folders. Boring? You bet. However, the predictably recurring chore helps keep my files at a manageable size, while preserving important documents such as last year's tax return.

Intel has been notified that it may have to pay approximately US$600 million in back taxes, plus interest, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday.

SAP AG used its fourth-quarter financial news conference to make some bold claims, and those relating to CRM (customer relationship management) software are almost certain to raise some eyebrows at Siebel Systems Inc., SAP's main rival on the CRM front.

Members of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) on Monday announced formation of a committee to advance an XML-based standard for the exchange of tax-related information. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for one, sees XML as a potential successor to EDI.

Adobe Systems this month will ship two products designed to make it easier for corporations to create and share interactive forms and documents and integrate them with data from back-end systems.

Experienced Java developers are expected to have a collection of design patterns in their toolbox. Sun's certification exam for Java architects already explicitly tests for knowledge of the Gang of Four's patterns. When the exam is rewritten for release next year, other enterprise patterns will be added. Mark Johnson and Inderjeet Singh copresented a session on J2EE design patterns for enterprise applications. Their presentation concentrated on the patterns used to construct the Java Pet Store application available on Sun Microsystems Inc.'s site.