Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The American Institute of CPAs’ Financial Reporting Committee has sent a letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board questioning the costs and benefits of FASB’s current goodwill impairment model.
October 11 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a second early draft version of the new Schedule 1 for next tax season’s Form 1040 to include a question up top about whether a taxpayer has sold, received, exchanged or acquired cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
October 11 -
Section 1031 exchanges involving related parties present some of the most complex problems in tax law.
October 11 -
The president, under siege from House Democrats weighing impeachment, suffered a stinging blow as a federal appeals court upheld a subpoena ordering his accountants to provide Congress with his financial records.
October 11 -
For Americans who couldn’t figure out how to pay their taxes in April after Republicans overhauled the tax code, there is a new day of dread for accountants: Oct. 15.
October 10 -
The guidance is the first since 2014.
October 10 -
At long last, the IRS proposes new regs on cloud transactions.
October 8 -
The Treasury Department and IRS issued proposed regulations to help taxpayers avoid negative tax consequences in the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate and other interbank rates to newer reference rates.
October 8 -
A new notice explains which rates taxpayers should use as of Oct. 1.
October 7 -
Some functions -- like those performed by CPAs in public markets -- call for government licensing.
October 4 -
Businesses would have to pay a tax based on the amount they spent to lobby the government.
October 2 -
Rev. Proc. 2019-40 will limit the inquiries some U.S. taxpayers have to face.
October 1 -
With October 15 coming up, Mark Luscombe shares top issues for extended tax returns.
October 1 -
The case brought by New York and New Jersey was brought against a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
September 30 -
The Justice Department investigation into the allergy shot would eventually cost the drug maker nearly $500 million.
September 27 -
The university, best known for the Fighting Irish, is taking on an off-field conflict, this one involving money. And art.
September 27 -
As FASB considers additional interventions in the way public companies account for goodwill, they would do well to remember one of Hippocrates’ maxims for physicians.
September 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service issued new rates for business travelers to use.
September 25 -
Workiva, which makes reporting and compliance software for accounting, finance, audit, and internal controls, has entered into a partnership with FilePoint, a full-service filing agent.
September 25 -
The Internal Revenue Service is giving those who own an interest in rental real estate a safe harbor to allow them to qualify for the section 199A deduction.
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