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New forms’ questions; taxpayers behaving badly; why people leave; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Corporate directors and executives aren’t supposed to use privileged information about their companies to enrich themselves at the investing public’s expense.

ARA Holdings Inc. is settling for a $2 million penalty.

The staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission released guidance Monday for companies about how to properly recognize and disclose compensation costs for “spring-loaded awards” they hand out to executives.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is regrouping with a slate of new board members recently appointed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and it approved its fiscal year 2022 budget during a rare open meeting on Tuesday.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed longtime SEC official Erica Y. Williams as the new chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and named three new members.

The commission approved a rule to ensure the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board can inspect firms in other countries, especially China.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed an accounting standards update Monday that would modify the disclosure requirements for interim financial reporting.

The top executives of a defunct cybersecurity company were charged with duping investors.

The foundation is mulling changes in how it uses the term “materiality” to avoid legal and regulatory conflicts for companies disclosing their sustainability efforts.