The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging tax preparers to take a new competency exam as soon as possible. So far, more than 4,800 people have become Registered Tax Return Preparers, according to ...

In March 1995, I sat in the House of Representatives listening to 70-year-old Rep. Henry Hyde, an Illinois Republican, give a remarkable speech against term limits. Hyde, a giant of a man at 6-foot-3, ...

CHICAGO — With one out of four U.S. doctors older than 65, the American Medical Association adopted a plan Monday to help decide when it’s time for aging senior physicians to hang up the stethoscope.

The average age of physicians is on the rise: According to the American Medical Association, about 42 percent of the nation’s physicians are more than 55 years old and 21 percent are older than 65.

CHICAGO (AP) – Should old doctors be forced to retire? That question is the focus of a new report by an American Medical Association council that says doctors themselves should help decide when one of ...