Twenty-three states have approved laws to make it less burdensome for certified public accountants to represent clients across state lines.The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is seeking enactment of similar laws in every state so that a national uniform mobility system will become a reality for CPAs, CPA firms, and the state boards of accountancy that regulate them.

The Internal Revenue Service recently released for public comment the draft instructions to the 2008 Form 990, which is the return most tax-exempt organizations must file annually.The instructions apply to the redesigned Form 990 that organizations will file for their 2008 tax years (returns filed in 2009).

The Maryland General Assembly last week passed a CPA mobility bill that will make it easier for CPAs to do interstate business.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun an investigation into the tax-exempt status of the United Church of Christ, the church that Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) attends, over a speech Obama delivered at the UCC's 2007 General Synod in Hartford, CT last June. According to a copy of an IRS letter that the church has received, the agency is launching the inquiry "because reasonable belief exists that the United Church of Christ has engaged in political activities that could jeopardize its tax-exempt status," the Washington Post reports.

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