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Significant Pennsylvania Tax Change

Governor Tom Wolf has announced the successful January 1, 2016 phase-out of Pennsylvania’s Capital Stock and Foreign Franchise tax. The governor notes that the phase-out had been proposed 15 years ago, but the elimination had been delayed several times. The tax was...
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Intern Insight

December is here and finals start in just over a week. As the fall semester begins to close, so does the fall portion of my internship at Stephano Slack. Looking back at what I have done in my time here, I am amazed at how much I have learned in such a short period of...
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DAF 101: Advice Worthy of Sharing

You may be hearing a lot about Donor-Advised Funds (“DAFs”) – a hot topic right now in the philanthropic sector. DAFs offer high net worth individuals estate and tax planning advantages, while avoiding the startup costs and administrative expenses of opening a small...
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Intern Insight

Hello! I am Jeff. I am a senior at Temple University. My major is in Accounting and my minor is Management Information Systems. I am graduating after this spring semester. I started my internship with Stephano Slack LLC in the beginning of September this year and I...
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Accounting Adventures with Kayleen

X Marks the Spot…The Accounting Scavenger Hunt Over the last few weeks, I have been working on what feels like two different accounting scavenger hunts. While both projects were different in nature, they had one thing in common, the quest to solve the unknown. Each...
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To Work or Not Work….That is the Question

Some  insight from our intern Ben… I had heard multiple times that I shouldn’t work during my senior year, that I should take my classes and spend the rest of my time enjoying my last year of school. Over the summer, I thought a lot about what I should do during...
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Ready… Set… Go with some New Intern Insight!

The latest insight from one of our current interns from Philly U, Kayleen! Enjoy 🙂 “So, do you like tax or audit?” This could very well be the most daunting question someone could ask an accounting student.  When I began my internship search my junior year, I was...
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Pennsylvania EITC/OSTC Changes and New Opportunities

Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC)/Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) Act 194 of 2014  was signed into law on October 31, 2014 for PA fiscal year 2014/2015 Impact: Special purpose entities, or a subsidiary of an existing firm, may be...
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