Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was a big winner from the recent tax overhaul.
February 26 -
U.S. companies including FedEx Corp. and Motorola Solutions Inc. are seizing an opportunity to borrow money and top up their pensions, before a tax benefit shrinks.
February 26 -
Final regulations have been released for how to avoid the centralized way the IRS can now examine large firms.
February 23 -
SMBs don’t have the resources to make sense of the changing regulatory landscape, so it's important to help them understand current laws.
February 23 -
The new tax law is having an unequal effect on Americans' paychecks.
February 22 -
Valuation Research Corp. co-CEO PJ Patel discusses the continued scrutiny of how business combinations are accounted for and valued, and the implications of the new tax law.
February 22 -
The Internal Revenue Service is prepared to handle three popular provisions that had expired for 2017 but were recently given new life by Congress.
February 22 -
The American Institute of CPAs sent the leaders of Congress’s tax committees a set of fixes to the TCJA.
February 22 -
Changes to the tax code may restrict growth in philanthropy to U.S. higher education to less than 6 percent this year, according to a report this week from Moody’s Investors Service.
February 22 -
Democrats counting on an angry, anti-Trump vibe to propel them to victory in November’s congressional elections may be in for a surprise as voters begin to see the effects of last year’s tax overhaul in their paychecks.
February 22 -
The U.S. Supreme Court narrowed an anti-retaliation provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, insulating publicly traded companies from some whistleblower lawsuits.
February 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that taxpayers can continue to deduct the interest they pay on home equity loans “in many cases,” despite the new tax law's limitations on the mortgage interest deduction.
February 21 -
The American Institute of CPAs is sending an urgent request to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department, asking for “immediate guidance” on the definition of the term “qualified business income” for pass-through entities under the new tax law.
February 21 -
Growing with tax law, and outgrowing its old space, the software company has found its forever home in prime real estate overlooking the Seattle Seahawks stadium.
February 21 -
As voters complete their tax returns this year, Kelly Mazeski and other Democratic candidates in high-income, high-tax congressional districts want them to be thinking about the possible pain ahead.
February 21 -
Blaming Woodrow Wilson; why to benchmark; the Advocate speaks; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
February 21 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposal Tuesday to expand the list of benchmark interest rates allowed for hedge accounting.
February 20 -
Preparers find themselves explaining the difference between 2017 and 2018.
February 20 -
The European Union voiced its concerns again over the impact of Donald Trump’s tax cuts but stopped short of threatening retaliation that could further inflame EU-U.S. tensions.
February 20 -
President Trump signed into law H.R. 1892, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, just hours after the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 71-28 and the House by a margin of 240-186 this month.
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