Awareness, communication and documentation are the keys to staying independent.

The Securities and Exchange Commission named Kyle Moffatt, a former audit manager at Ernst & Young, as chief accountant in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.

The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner, David Kautter, testified at a Senate Finance Committee budget hearing asking for nearly $400 million in additional funds to help the IRS administer the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Wall Street’s fast-money crowd is returning to well-trodden ground to elude Trump-era tax laws: Delaware.

President Donald Trump’s tax law could make divorce an even more miserable experience, according to a new survey of the nation’s top matrimonial attorneys.

As U.S. banks were tallying up the billions of dollars in extra profits they’ll reap from the sweeping tax cuts signed into law by President Donald Trump, they were quietly delivering unwelcome news to local governments: The interest rates on their loans were about to go up.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update Wednesday to help companies deal with the stranded income tax effects in accumulated other comprehensive income stemming from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Treasury Department has proposed to repeal nearly 300 tax regulations, many of which have become obsolete with the passage of the new tax law and earlier legislation, in some cases dating back to 1942.

American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon discussed how the AICPA pushed for changes in the new tax law, with mixed success, during a speech at an Accountants Club of America meeting in New York on Wednesday.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the Internal Revenue Service will issue guidance within the next two weeks to prevent hedge-fund managers from dodging new tax rules on carried-interest profits.

The buy adds incentive management capabilities that help companies comply with the new rev-rec standard.

Fairness at last for vets; troublesome forms; ‘non-employee withholding;’ and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is moving forward with a proposed accounting standards update to reclassify the stranded tax effects from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, although at least one investor group has some concerns.

With 2018 upon us and the extraordinary effort we’ve put in to get us past the public company deadline for the new revenue recognition standards, I’d like to highlight three longer-term considerations for companies to keep in mind as they continue to report and operate under the new rules.

There’s a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that is just now beginning to garner awareness among state governments and investors.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department announced changes Tuesday in the procedures for changing the accounting period of foreign corporations owned by U.S. shareholders subject to the transition tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposal includes increasing oversight of paid tax preparers along with more authority for the Internal Revenue Service.

The political network backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch is launching a $4 million advertising campaign against two Senate Democrats facing re-election in 2018, as it starts to fulfill a pledge to spend $20 million selling the federal tax overhaul passed late last year.

With the season underway, preparers are still fine-tuning software, workflow and clients’ ability to realize that reform generally doesn’t affect the returns worked on now.

Oil companies that have claimed more than a billion dollars in tax credits for burying carbon dioxide underground just got a windfall from Congress, which expanded that incentive as part of the government spending bill signed into law on Friday.