Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has added two more jurisdiction to its growing Caribbean portfolio of outposts, with the signing of "collaboration agreements" with St. Kitts and Nevis-based HazelAlleyne,  a full-service law firm located in Basseterre, St. Kitts, and Kingston, Jamaica-based Senior Accounting Services Ltd.

Over the past eight months, Andersen – the San Francisco area-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm – has made a major move into the Caribbean market, where it didn't have so much as a single office as recently as March.

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has unveiled what it calls a "collaboration agreement" with a San Juan, Puerto Rico-based tax firm that it says will mark its entry into the Caribbean marketplace.

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has expanded its presence in East and West Africa and Eastern Europe thus far this month, with the signing of collaboration agreements with firms located in countries in these three regions.

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has signed a collaboration agreement with a Ramallah-based law firm, in a deal that marks the firm’s debut in Palestine while expanding its presence in the Middle East.

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has signed a collaboration agreement with a Central American law firm that instantly will expand its presence to eight additional locations in six Central American countries, in addition to a new collaboration agreement with what it says is “one of the oldest, largest and most respected law firms in Slovenia”.

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has signed up law firms in two African countries as its latest “collaborating” entities, bringing to 18 the number of African countries in which it now has a presence.

Andersen Global, the San Francisco-based organization of legally-separate tax and legal services firms that evolved out of a part of the now-defunct Arthur Andersen accountancy firm, has added outposts in Jordan and Rwanda, as its global expansion continues.

Will a 'hard fork' result in gross income, and a reporting obligation for the U.S. taxpayer owner of the virtual currency subject to that 'fork'?

As reported, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service recently released some long-anticipated guidance on this and other questions, addressing how those subject to U.S. taxation should report their cryptocurrency assets and transactions.

Here, Joe Gill – a New York-based managing director in Andersen's U.S. National Tax office – shares his thoughts on the latest IRS guidance...

Andersen Tax, the San Francisco-based tax and financial services company that had its origins in a business that emerged from the collapse of Arthur Andersen in 2002, has announced that going forward, it will be known simply as "Andersen" – although it will still be major global provider of tax services.