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The Top 10 tax and accounting stories of 2016

The Top 10 tax and accounting stories of 2016

Thursday, December 29, 2016

A full calendar

It was a busy year for the tax and accounting profession, with major changes in accounting standards, significant threats to client data, new business rules – oh, and an election in which taxes played a prominent role, and which promises to change the shape of the Tax Code soon.

With that in mind, the editors of Accounting Today have assembled the 10 biggest stories for the field from the past year, in roughly chronological order.

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