Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Highly paid professionals including accountants, investment managers, doctors and lawyers are eyeing a loophole in what’s supposed to be a mom-and-pop benefit of the new tax law as a way to supersize their savings.
March 6 -
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s plan to fix a gaping loophole for hedge funds in President Donald Trump’s new tax law could face legal challenges.
March 6 -
States may receive a major boost in their corporate tax revenues as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, according to a new report.
March 5 -
The Internal Revenue Service’s announcement that it plans to issue regulations clarifying the limitations on carried interest aims to head off a flurry of activity aimed at getting around a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
March 2 -
CPAs are seeing more need for financial planning for clients with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
March 2 -
Flush with cash from President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul and bathing in more earnings than they know what to do with, U.S. companies are embarking on a buyback binge of historic dimension.
March 2 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board wants to improve how to deal with implementation charges for hosting service contracts.
March 1 -
The Big Four firm agreed to resolve potential liabilities related to its work for a failed mortgage lender.
March 1 -
The U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance seeking to close a loophole that hedge-fund managers had been trying to exploit to avoid paying higher taxes on carried-interest profits.
March 1 -
The Internal Revenue Service wants taxpayers to make sure they have the proper amount of taxes taken out of their paychecks.
February 28 -
Major corporations have authorized $200 billion in stock purchases in the two months since the passage of the new tax law while more than 55,000 American workers have been laid off, according to Senate Democrats.
February 28 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice extending the relief it provided last year to residents who evacuated or couldn’t return because of the damage caused by the monster storms.
February 28 -
He who must be named; what’s changing and what isn’t; spins of the Coin; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
February 27 -
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Lloyd Doggett have proposed legislation in the House and Senate to ensure multinational companies pay the same tax rate on profits earned abroad as they do in the U.S., to counter some of the effects they claim from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Republicans passed last December.
February 27 -
The new tax law is anticipated to have a big impact on mergers and acquisitions, according to a new survey by Deloitte.
February 27 -
Efforts in the U.S. and Europe to encourage public companies to change audit firms have largely failed, according to new academic research.
February 27 -
U.S. consumer confidence jumped to a 17-year high as optimism about employment prospects grew and Americans began seeing additional money in their paychecks from recently enacted tax cuts, data from the New York-based Conference Board showed Tuesday.
February 27 -
New Jersey took the first step toward allowing residents with the nation’s highest property taxes to circumvent a new federal limit on state and local tax deductions.
February 27 -
This year may bring a barrage of questions from clients about cryptocurrency. Here's how to be ready for them.
February 26 -
General Electric Co.’s boss wants investors to know that all the negative headlines dogging the manufacturer don’t tell the whole story.
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