Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The Senate’s arcane budget rules threaten Democrats’ plans to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations and invest in climate programs.
July 19 -
He questioned a 3.8% tax on pass-through businesses, under discussion as an offset for Medicare drug provisions.
July 18 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering changes in the transition requirements for its long-duration insurance standard.
July 15 -
The service's new practice unit stresses that agents should look more closely at designers of government-owned buildings than at commercial building owners.
July 15 -
Congress has returned from recess this week to a packed agenda and not much time before their scheduled summer recess.
July 13 -
Focusing on the right key performance indicators enables a business to home in on the metrics that benefit it the most.
July 12 -
Former President Donald Trump must hand over financial records to a Congressional committee investigating his potential conflicts of interests.
July 11 -
The service has posted a revenue procedure to give widows and widowers the ability to file for an extension of time on a tax exclusion until the fifth anniversary of their spouse’s death.
July 8 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies have been keeping watch as the capital markets go through a period of volatility amid rising inflation and interest rates, looking for telltale signs of financial fraud.
July 5 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is getting set to impose new rules on climate-related disclosures and how funds can be named to promote investment strategies like ESG and sustainable.
July 1 -
The Senate GOP leader said he will block bipartisan legislation to boost U.S. competition with China.
July 1 -
The board has postponed the expected completion date of its merger with the Value Reporting Foundation to August 1.
June 30 -
The ASU aims to increase the comparability of financial information across reporting entities that have investments in certain equity securities.
June 30 -
There’s a simple technical fix for the exam cheating that landed Ernst & Young with a $100 million fine from the SEC, but the problems go deeper.
June 30 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a report summarizing the feedback it received last year on the projects it should pursue in the future.
June 29 -
A senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee has introduced legislation to double the size of the research and development tax credit and enable more small-business startups to claim it.
June 29 -
Lower courts have disagreed whether non-willful failure-to-disclose penalties are on per-account or a per-form basis.
June 28 -
The penalty for cheating on CPA ethics exams and misleading investigators was the largest ever levied by the commission against an accounting firm.
June 28 -
The Big Four firm admitted that dozens of its audit personnel cheated on the ethics portion of the exam, and that it misled regulators probing the misconduct.
June 28 -
The information covers forms for reported excise taxes on certain polluting chemicals and substances.
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