Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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A Democrat-led House committee moved a step closer to reviewing President Donald Trump’s tax information after a federal judge ruled U.S. lawmakers have the power to demand records from his accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP.
May 20 -
Republicans and Democrats will be working on the perennial problem of what to do about the temporary tax breaks that need to be renewed every few years.
May 16 -
It's time to treat environmental, social and governance metrics with the same rigor as financial metrics.
May 15 -
The American Institute of CPAs has sent the Internal Revenue Service a set of recommendations on changing some of the parking rules for tax breaks for transportation fringe benefits, which the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mostly eliminated.
May 15 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is giving banks some leeway in applying the new credit losses standard.
May 15 -
Extension a tax incentive for electric vehicle purchases could cost up to $15.7 billion, according to an analysis prepared by opponents.
May 15 -
Tax credits worth billions of dollars for the wind and solar industries are set to expire or begin phasing out next year — part of a 2015 deal Democrats struck that ended a 40-year-old ban on the export of crude oil.
May 15 -
The bipartisan legislation aims to expand retirement savings by offering more tax incentives to individuals and small businesses.
May 14 -
The Institute wants to postpone the effective date of its new leases standard for one year, citing an overload for financial statement preparers.
May 14 -
Planning for the deduction can yield significant tax savings.
May 14 -
Is quarterly reporting really valuable enough to investors to justify the time and cost spent to compile the reports?
May 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations upping user fees on enrolled agents and enrolled retirement plan agents.
May 10 -
The American Institute of CPAs has submitted a set of recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service about accounting method changes.
May 10 -
With more than three-quarters of public companies already past the effective date, the spotlight is now on private companies.
May 10 -
A decade ago, Angelo Mozilo was the face of the housing bust that preceded the financial crisis. Now the former chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial Corp. is predicting another drop, and for some homeowners it may be even worse.
May 10 -
States are enjoying windfalls after struggling to predict how President Donald Trump’s federal tax law changes would ripple through their revenue.
May 10 -
The global retailer at the center of South Africa’s biggest corporate scandal cut the value of its assets because of accounting irregularities.
May 9 -
The SEC proposed to free small companies from a Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirement that an auditor sign-off on their internal controls over financial reporting.
May 9 -
The Democratic presidential candidate doesn’t want to fully repeal the new tax law, breaking with rival and fellow Senator Kamala Harris.
May 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice setting the inflation-adjusted maximum value of a vehicle provided by an employer to an employee for personal use.
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