Regulation and compliance
Regulation
-
Republicans are promising Tax Reform 2.0, but only a few measures may get approved.
July 18 -
Erkki Liikanen, a former governor of the Finnish Central Bank, has been named chair of the IFRS Foundation trustees, the group that oversees the International Accounting Standards Board and the International Financial Reporting Standards they develop.
July 18 -
The Finance Committee is expected to approve Trump’s nomination of a tax attorney as the next head of the Internal Revenue Service.
July 17 -
Jeb Hensarling and Maxine Waters don’t agree on much but they reached a compromise on a plan for dialing back financial rules that passed the U.S. House Tuesday.
July 17 -
Many tax-exempt groups that participate in politics will no longer be required to disclose their donors to the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department said.
July 17 -
Four Democratic-led northeastern states sued the Trump administration to invalidate the new $10,000 cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes.
July 17 -
The service will help taxpayers manage the new withholding tables.
July 17 -
These provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act offer practitioners big opportunities to help clients.
July 17 -
Companies that refer to trade secrets in their Form 10-K annual reports are at greater risk of cyberattacks from criminals who are intent on uncovering them, according to a team of accounting researchers.
July 16 -
Axiom, a provider of legal contract technology, has introduced the Contracts Intelligence Platform for Lease Accounting to help organizations uncover embedded leases that are subject to the new lease accounting standard.
July 16 -
In 2011, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was selected at random to rule on whether President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, was constitutional.
July 16 -
KPMG is partnering with analytics provider SAS on helping banks make the transition to the current expected credit loss, or CECL, accounting standard that begins to take effect in January 2020.
July 13 -
The upcoming rules may affect one tactic that some wealthy taxpayers have been using to get around the cap on deducting local property taxes.
July 13 -
The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to send millions of dollars to vets who received disability severance payments starting in 1991.
July 13 -
The IRS and Treasury have unveiled a proposed postcard-sized version of the workhorse form.
July 12 -
The bill would allow taxpayers to treat the amounts paid for membership at a fitness facility as medical expenses.
July 12 -
CPAs and EAs are raising objections to the draft version of the Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate.
July 12 -
The nation’s new tax law is scaring would-be homebuyers from Westchester, a longtime refuge for families escaping New York City’s high costs.
July 12 -
The recent tax overhaul is buoying optimism in the U.S., but not abroad.
July 12 -
More and more companies say they can see the future, but only through their rainbow-tinted kaleidoscopes.
July 12


















