Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The amendment promises to reduce losses at the beginning of some types of leasing contracts.
April 16 -
The Internal Revenue Service is providing penalty relief for an employer’s failure to deposit employment taxes with the IRS on a timely basis.
April 15 -
The new commissioner is poised to confront everything from the fallout of the GameStop trading frenzy to the deluge of SPACs.
April 14 -
Cta.x is designed to help audit firms quickly develop and deploy automated internal controls tests to help them comply with regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley.
April 14 -
The board proposed changing “comprehensive annual financial report” to “annual comprehensive financial report” because the abbreviation sounds like a racist term in South Africa.
April 14 -
Even though IRS employees making compliance determinations are bound to apply the tax law fairly to all taxpayers, it’s not unusual for a taxpayer and the IRS to disagree about the proper application of the law.
April 13 -
U.S. regulators are throwing another wrench into Wall Street’s SPAC machine by cracking down on how accounting rules apply to a key element of blank-check companies.
April 13 -
Notice 2021-25 offers details on a provision of the COVID-19 relief package from last December that allows a temporarily larger deduction.
April 8 -
When questions and issues arise about domestic employer obligations, families often turn to their trusted financial professional for advice.
April 6 -
The board released an ASU that helps the organizations decrease the complexity of performing a goodwill triggering event evaluation.
March 30 -
A group of senators has drafted legislation that would eliminate the long-standing tax break.
March 29 -
10 major developments, from the pandemic and Wayfair to sin taxes, that are all likely to play major roles.
March 29 -
The U.S. Senate approved a two-month extension of a popular U.S. small-business relief program that still has about $79 billion left to distribute, giving companies until the end of May to apply for the forgivable loans.
March 25 -
The commission is starting to implement a tough law passed at the end of the Trump administration, aimed largely at Chinese stocks.
March 25 -
A conservative think tank is throwing its support behind proposals long associated with progressives like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders: taxing stock trades and breaking up Wall Street investment banks.
March 25 -
Other issues take precedence over environmental, social and governance issues for many finance execs, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
March 24 -
The Internal Revenue Service has changed the calculation for determining the $10,200 exclusion on unemployment benefits in the new pandemic relief package, allowing more taxpayers to qualify, but forcing tax software developers to update their programs.
March 24 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board said Tuesday the Securities and Exchange Commission has accepted the latest updates to the GAAP Taxonomy for filing financial statements with the SEC.
March 23 -
Yet another IRS change to tax rules amid the COVID pandemic is complicating tax-planning opportunities for financial advisors this filing season.
March 23 -
Tax practitioners share the new issues that they’re keeping an eye on.
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