Coronavirus

The passage extends the IRA contribution deadline and waives RMDs for 2020. Here’s what else financial advisors need to know.

Starting May 2020, CIMA students can take their exams outside of testing centers due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

The American Institute of CPAs wants the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to give taxpayers more tax filing and payment relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 Q2 CPA Exam testing window will now be extended from June 10 to June 30, 2020.

How to deal with the emotional ramifications of coronavirus.

The $2.2 trillion package passed by the Senate includes a provision that would allow banks the temporary option to postpone compliance with the credit losses standard.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is considering delaying the effective dates of its standards and implementation guides because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The Senate voted 96-0 late Wednesday to approve a sweeping $2.2 trillion stimulus package to help the nation emerge from the coronavirus pandemic.

Large retailers like Walmart Inc. and Target Corp., as well as student loan borrowers, are on a long list of potential winners from tax breaks included in a $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill approved by the Senate.

Practitioners share ways to respond to clients who think the postponed deadline means they’re not busy.

The payments are one of the central provisions of the $2 trillion stimulus package awaiting a Senate vote.

Days of negotiations between the Trump administration and Congress — and fierce lobbying by industries eager for assistance dealing with the coronavirus outbreak — has yielded a rescue package worth more than $2 trillion in spending and tax breaks.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving foreign banks and financial institutions more time to file information about U.S. taxpayers with overseas bank accounts because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service is taking a “sweeping series of steps” to help taxpayers during the coronavirus outbreak.

This is the new reality: We are all remote now. It’s hard to see an end date, but it’s even harder to imagine what will happen when all 50 states get the all-clear from our leaders. Will everything go back to normal, just like that?

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he wants direct payments to households to go out within three weeks of Congress passing a stimulus law, yet former IRS officials say those payments could take months to reach households.

The Commission is extending the filing periods covered under its previous reporting relief for companies due to the COV-19 pandemic.

The Internal Revenue Service posted a frequently asked questions page about the recently announced delay in tax filing and payments until July 15 because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

In the face of the coronavirus, no accounting firm gets a pass from keeping in contact with clients and employees.

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