The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday issued a long-awaited proposal interpreting a section of last year’s tax reform law that seeks to combat tax avoidance through deductible payments made in the U.S. into other tax jurisdictions

The Internal Revenue Service issued a proposal intended to reduce the regulatory burden with respect to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and other reporting requirements.

President Trump today signed an executive order creating a new council that will help ensure the success of the Opportunity Zones tax incentive.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued updated Pillar 3 disclosure requirements reflecting the “Basel IV” capital framework released in December 2017.

The projected effects of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Current Expected Credit Loss model for loan loss accounting are significant enough that FASB should delay CECL’s effective date and perform a quantitative impact study of the model, ABA said today.

Banks are not basing decisions on how much to hold in reserve at the Federal Reserve Banks on a desire to earn the interest paid on excess reserves, according to a Fed survey of senior financial officers released today.

The IRS today proposed regulations for implementing provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that restrict the deductibility of net business interest expense. 

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standards update today to allow non-public business entities to implement CECL on Jan. 1, 2022, instead of Dec. 31, 2021, as originally required.

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The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ financial reporting executive committee today issued a working draft of accounting issues related to the implementation of the Current Expected Credit Loss standard.