Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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The Internal Revenue Service is proposing temporary regulations on foreign base company sales income.
December 29 -
The Internal Revenue Service has finalized the revised Form 990 and 990-EZ information returns that tax-exempt organizations will need to file next year.
December 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service has given Section 529 tuition programs the ability to change their investment strategies more frequently in response to the financial crisis.
December 26 -
Cheshire Software has added estate planning features to its wealth management product.
December 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department have decided against changing a rule that requires retirees to withdraw a minimum distribution from their retirement savings accounts by the end of 2008.
December 24 -
Accounting firms expect the recession to affect their business over the coming year.
December 24 -
New York Governor David Paterson is trying to close a record deficit of $15.4 billion with 137 new tax and fee increases, including a new tax on sugary sodas.
December 24 -
WebCPA's financial crisis survey is gauging the reactions of accountants and their clients to the financial crisis.
December 24 -
The National Retail Federation has asked President-elect Barack Obama to include a series of sales tax holidays within the economic stimulus legislation he is drafting with Congress.
December 24 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued the first of two proposed standards intended to simplify the accounting for financial instruments in response to the financial crisis.
December 24 -
The International Accounting Standards Board has proposed requiring companies to provide additional disclosures on all their investments in debt instruments, other than those classified in the fair value through profit or loss category.
December 24 -
David Friehling, the auditor at the tiny accounting firm that handled Bernard Madoff's books, has been subpoenaed by investigators.
December 24 -
Accounting firm Citrin Cooperman has added a “Growth & Protection Team” to provide business consulting services to small and midsized businesses.
December 23 -
There are possible tax strategies that are particularly suited to the times that we are in. Here are two that I keep seeing, with the latest in a press release from a major tax publisher. According to analysts with the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, C corporations may secure a refund of overpaid estimated taxes, or use projected current-year NOL to offset taxes owed for the previous year.
December 23 -
More than a third of CPA firms plan to supplement their workforce in the next 12 months, according to a newly released survey.
December 23 -
I’ve heard at least half a dozen people complain about their lack of a holiday party this year.
December 23 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued proposed regulations that provide rules for assessing penalties against tax advisors who fail to file a true and complete tax return on a timely basis.
December 23 -
President-elect Barack Obama has named venture capitalist Karen Mills to lead the Small Business Administration, drawing fire from one small business group.
December 22 -
The optimism of chief financial officers across the U.S. has fallen steeply in the fourth quarter, according to a new survey.
December 22 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have published a discussion paper that takes a joint approach to solving some perplexing questions about the recognition of revenue.
December 22