Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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During his first major address to Congress Tuesday, President Donald Trump backed a proposal that has split the Republican Party: giving Americans tax credits to buy coverage.
March 1 -
Overall, smaller firms gained by far the most new and net engagements for the year.
March 1 -
President Trump outlined a wide range of priorities, including tax reform and a health care overhaul, in his first speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
February 28 -
Ranking state taxes; Schedule M-2 spreadsheets; corporate income tax with no physical presence; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
February 28 -
Some CPA practices are using health reimbursement arrangements as a way to provide coverage to employees, in some cases offering them more benefits.
February 28 -
The Internal Revenue Service is turning up the heat on taxpayers. Some of them, anyway.
February 28 -
Four-fifths of CPAs and accounting pros also expect the new administration to pursue tax reform.
February 27 -
Multiple risks lurk in the way accountants deliver their business clients’ information. CPA.com CEO Erik Asgeirsson and Confirmation.com founder Brian Fox discuss how a new information clearinghouse may solve the problem.
February 27 -
The American Institute of CPAs has sent a set of proposed guidelines to the Internal Revenue Service recommending how the IRS should deal with the allocation of unrelated business income expenses of tax-exempt organizations for dual-use facilities and personnel.
February 27 -
Republican lawmakers expect their ACA replacement will result in decrease in insured Americans, despite growing support for the program.
February 24 -
Implementation of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s current expected credit loss standard is well underway at major banks, according to a survey by Deloitte, though the new standard could show how risky many of the loans really are.
February 23 -
When Donald Trump interviewed Jay Clayton to be his chief securities regulator in December, the then-president elect was fixated on the steep decline in U.S. initial public offerings.
February 23 -
While death and taxes may be a certainty, how quickly Americans are getting their refunds remains up in the air—and that’s taking a toll on eateries’ revenue.
February 23 -
Investors counting on major U.S. tax changes in 2017 are going to be disappointed, according to a financial analyst.
February 22 -
ACA penalties; helping with OICs; tax policy under an anti-policy president; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
February 21 -
The IRS says it will accept filings that don’t say whether a a taxpayer has health insurance for ACA purposes.
February 21 -
Not long after the Speaker of the House offered a full-throated affirmation of his tax overhaul, an influential conservative group announced a grassroots campaign against it.
February 17 -
The Internal Revenue Service is temporarily delaying issuance of additional rules while evaluating the impact of executive orders from President Trump, and scaling back enforcement of the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act.
February 16 -
Republicans are looking at limiting a tax exclusion used by employers that’s worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, as a way to pay for changes to the health care system.
February 16 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s guidance on the definition of a business could be of special benefit to the real estate, pharmaceutical, biotech and financial services industries, but doesn’t go as far as some had hoped.
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