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The Internal Revenue Service has contracted with Ripcord, a startup company that does robotic digitization of documents and records, to pilot test a program to digitize filings of Form 709.

The West Virginia senator is calling on the commission to reconsider a plan to require companies to disclose information about their greenhouse gas pollution.

The chair said his agency and the top U.S. derivatives regulator should work together to rein in cryptocurrency exchanges.

Taxpayers can get assistance at many centers this April 9.

The Internal Revenue Service initiated a temporary change in policy Monday for U.S. residency applications for the next two years.

Despite offering less in the way of legal protections, the service uses lien foreclosures more often, according to a TIGTA report.

The revised draft rules deleted the requirement that on-site inspections should be mainly conducted by Chinese regulatory agencies or rely on their inspection results.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board set the effective date for the GASB 87 leases standard at June 15, 2021, after pushing it back by 18 months during the pandemic, but many state and local governments are apparently behind on implementing it.

Board staff called attention to some important considerations for auditors as they plan and perform audits that may be affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine.

PCAOB names director of the office of international affairs; BKD promotes 32; and more CPA news.

The unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a point to 3.6%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, and two previous months' job gains were revised upward.

A growing number of trading platforms are safeguarding digital assets for their users and maintaining the cryptographic keys necessary to access the tokens.

Chinese authorities are preparing to give U.S. regulators full access to auditing reports of the majority of the 200-plus companies listed in New York as soon as the middle of this year.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update aimed at improving the usefulness of information offered to investors about certain loan refinancings, troubled debt restructurings, vintage disclosures and gross write-offs, amending its credit losses standard.

A district court has vacated IRS Notice 2016-66, which designated micro-captive insurance arrangements as “transactions of interest,” and thus reportable.

Information security and digital assets are among the priorities named by the commission’s Division of Examinations for 2022.

Gary Gensler signaled that only total compliance with U.S. audit inspections will allow the companies to keep trading on American markets.

Backlogs at the IRS and bearing bad news can be challenging, but it’s no more than preparers expected.

The service has been auditing the poorest wage earners more than higher-earning taxpayers, according to an updated report.

The NTA issued a directive calling on the service to implement scanning technology as a way to reduce the backlog of unprocessed tax returns by 2023.