Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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A U.S. House committee approved a package of bills that provide tax breaks for a variety of select industries and constituencies, kicking off what’s likely to be a protracted negotiation with Senate Republicans over whether and how to pay for them.
June 21 -
The chief pointed to his own history as a tax attorney, while reminding tax pros that the IRS is watching from the compliance and enforcement side.
June 20 -
Howitt led the group that has promoted integrated reporting for three years and promulgated the model worldwide.
June 20 -
The Treasury Department has narrowed the reach of a new tax aimed at technology and pharmaceutical companies with overseas income, wiping out an unintended consequence of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul.
June 20 -
Data has always been the cornerstone of an accurate and compliant allowance for loan and lease losses (ALLL), and it will remain critical under the current expected credit loss model, or CECL.
June 19 -
Democratic presidential candidates like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have talked about repealing the GOP’s tax overhaul. Yet a large-scale rollback is unlikely. Instead, two other forces could slowly unravel the law — Democrats currently in power in the House and President Donald Trump’s trade policies.
June 19 -
Congress is considering plenty of bills -- how many will be passed is another question.
June 17 -
Multinational corporations got some long-awaited clarity from the IRS, which issued new rules on Friday clarifying how they must compute a new international tax.
June 14 -
If liberal and conservative advocacy groups can agree on anything, it’s this: A suite of more than three dozen or so corporate tax breaks that have expired over the past two years should stay dead.
June 14 -
The Senate passed the far-reaching package only days after it passed the House for the second time, sending it to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
June 13 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has proposed some new guidance on the accounting and financial reporting for public-private and public-public partnership arrangements, along with availability payment arrangements.
June 13 -
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have been fighting a new cap on state and local tax deductions ever since it was included in the 2017 Republican tax overhaul.
June 13 -
PricewaterhouseCoopers was fined 4.55 million pounds by the U.K.’s accounting watchdog over failings in its handling of technology firm Redcentric.
June 13 -
Luca Pacioli’s groundbreaking text on bookkeeping, accounting and mathematics sold for $1,215,000 at an auction Wednesday at Christie’s in New York.
June 12 -
A special early draft of the IRS publication on federal income tax withholding gives employers an advance look at the changes in the new Form W-4.
June 12 -
Bloomberg Tax & Accounting has added support for the new lease accounting standard under International Financial Reporting Standards to its product, which already supports the ASC 842 standard under U.S. GAAP.
June 11 -
States like New York and New Jersey that hoped to help residents circumvent the new $10,000 limit on state and local taxes won't be able to do so.
June 11 -
The House voted for a second time to approve bipartisan legislation to overhaul key aspects of the way the IRS operates, but without a controversial provision.
June 11 -
The president’s personal lawyers told the court it must reverse a judge’s ruling allowing the House Oversight and Reform Committee to subpoena financial records from his accounting firm.
June 11 -
The American Institute of CPAs submitted more than 140 recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service regarding its 2019-20 Guidance Priority List.
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