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Tax Reform Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
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AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS via AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
2013 · fourth_quarter · Q4
EEOC consideration of reclassifying partners as employees under Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, HR 1406
S. Amdt. 67 to HR 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, HR 313; Conference Accountability Act of 2013, S 1347; HR 2696
Source: Senate LDA
Tax Reform Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Tax Reform Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Tax Reform Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (including truncated taxpayeridentification numbers (TTINs))and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR); the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a).
SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062
SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627.
SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (including truncated taxpayeridentification numbers (TTINs))and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR); the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a).
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
EEOC consideration of reclassifying partners as employees under Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, HR 1406
Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
EEOC consideration of reclassifying partners as employees under Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, HR 1406
Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
EEOC consideration of reclassifying partners as employees under Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, HR 1406
Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions to the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750
Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Fraud Prevention Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Fraud Prevention Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Fraud Prevention Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions to the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750
Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability.
Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627.
Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
FREE Vietnam Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
FREE Vietnam Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
FREE Vietnam Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
CLEAR Relief Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
CLEAR Relief Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions to the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750
CLEAR Relief Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
To modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
To modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
To modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions to the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750
Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
SKILLS Visa Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Adding accounting under STEM; Increase H-1B cap; Uncap H-1B numbers for advanced degree holderes; Add/roll over unused green card numbers available each year; Border Security Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744; HR 2131 - SKILLS Visa Act.
SKILLS Visa Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Adding accountin under STEM; Increase H-1B cap; Uncap H-1B numbers for advanced degree holderes; Add/roll over unused green card numbers available each year; Border Security Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744; HR 2131 - SKILLS Visa Act.
SKILLS Visa Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Adding accounting under STEM; Increase H-1B cap; Uncap H-1B numbers for advanced degree holderes; Add/roll over unused green card numbers available each year; Border Security Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744; HR 2131 - SKILLS Visa Act.
Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Higher Education and Skills Obtainment Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Higher Education and Skills Obtainment Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to issue regulations covering the practice of enrolled agents before the Internal Revenue Service.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to issue regulations covering the practice of enrolled agents before the Internal Revenue Service.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to issue regulations covering the practice of enrolled agents before the Internal Revenue Service.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Retail Investor Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627.
Retail Investor Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
Retail Investor Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
To increase transparency of agencies by requiring a report describing any proposed conference.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
S. Amdt. 67 to HR 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, HR 313; Conference Accountability Act of 2013, S 1347; HR 2696
Protect and Save Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Protect and Save Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Protect and Save Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Protect and Save Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (including truncated taxpayeridentification numbers (TTINs))and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR); the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a).
GSA Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
S. Amdt. 67 to HR 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, HR 313; Conference Accountability Act of 2013, S 1347; HR 2696
GSA Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
S. Amdt. 67 to H.R. 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, H.R. 313
GSA Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
S. Amdt. 67 to HR 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, HR 313; Conference Accountability Act of 2013, S 1347
GSA Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
S. Amdt. 67 to H.R. 933; H.R. 313
Holding Individuals Accountable and Deterring Money Laundering Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Comment Sense Economic Recovery Act, HR 927; Holding Individuals Accountable and Deterring Money Laundering Act, HR 3317
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Municipal Advisor Oversight Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
Municipal Advisor Oversight Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062
Municipal Advisor Oversight Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627.
Municipal Advisor Oversight Improvement Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
SHIELD Act, H.R. 845
Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
SHIELD Act, H.R. 845; Patent Quality Improvement Act, S 866.
Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
SHIELD ACT, HR 845; Patent Quality Improvement Act, S866; Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013, S 1720; Innovation Act, HR 3309
Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
SHIELD Act, HR 845; Patent Quality Improvement Act, S 866
Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (including truncated taxpayeridentification numbers (TTINs))and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR); the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a).
Tax Return Due Date Simplification and Modernization Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Comment Sense Economic Recovery Act, HR 927; Holding Individuals Accountable and Deterring Money Laundering Act, HR 3317
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Comment Sense Economic Recovery Act, HR 927
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act, H.R. 927.
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act, H.R. 927. Revision of Sarbanes-Oxley rules on disclosure of disciplinary proceedings.
Higher Education and Skills Obtainment Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Higher Education and Skills Obtainment Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Enrolled Agents Credential Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Enrolled Agents Credential Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Enrolled Agents Credential Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Conference Accountability Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
S. Amdt. 67 to HR 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, HR 313; Conference Accountability Act of 2013, S 1347; HR 2696
Conference Accountability Act of 2014
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
S. Amdt. 67 to HR 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, HR 313; Conference Accountability Act of 2013, S 1347
STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (including truncated taxpayeridentification numbers (TTINs))and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR); the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a).
STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
STOP Identity Theft Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions to the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750
Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
SHIELD ACT, HR 845; Patent Quality Improvement Act, S866; Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013, S 1720; Innovation Act, HR 3309
A bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Draft bill by Cong. Nunes/Burr regarding Public Employee Pension Transparency; definition of fiduciary, S. 273
A bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
A bill to modify the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to exclude appraisers of employee stock ownership plans.
Client: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS · Firm: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
Comment Sense Economic Recovery Act, HR 927; Holding Individuals Accountable and Deterring Money Laundering Act, HR 3317
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions to the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750
SHIELD ACT, HR 845; Patent Quality Improvement Act, S866; Patent Transparency and Improvements Act of 2013, S 1720; Innovation Act, HR 3309
Adding accounting under STEM; Increase H-1B cap; Uncap H-1B numbers for advanced degree holderes; Add/roll over unused green card numbers available each year; Border Security Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744; HR 2131 - SKILLS Visa Act.
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties to undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Chairman Baucus tax reform discussion drafts on Tax Administration, Cost Recovery & Accounting and International tax reform; Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 1129, S. 1645); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Related party debt (proposed regulations on Sec. 752); Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; interactive Form 1023; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263A); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Proposed Regulations to Amend the Definition of Research and Experimental Expenditures under Section 174; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS via AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
2013 · third_quarter · Q3
Comment Sense Economic Recovery Act, HR 927
Tax Reform, H.R. 1, S. 1090, H.R. 2253; (e.g., alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, information reporting, Real Time Tax System, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, depreciation, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, Section 9100 relief, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); Tax penalties (e.g., the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties undersections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; and Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (e.g., truncated taxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013, S. 676); IRS authority over tax preparers, HR 1570; preparer tax identification numbers (PTIN) registration process; Cash basis method of accounting; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); (e.g., six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Permanent disaster relief; Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; IRS weather-related impacts in filing due dates; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; IRS Budget; Form 1099B and From 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; Guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Net investment income tax (Sec. 1411); Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); Clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income (Sec. 6050P); Provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; Simplified home office deduction; Remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); Repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; Targeted allocations for partnerships; Clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); Allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; Add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; Allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Form 1120S; Repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; Exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; Reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; Expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; Public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; Top-heavy rules; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; Use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); PFICs; Automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; The Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; Tangible personal property guidance repair regulations (Sec. 263a); Estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; IRS e-signature standards; Uncertain tax positions (UTP); Sec. 7212; Individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services; IRC section 1298 (f) filing requirements; Enrolled Agents, S 1134, H.R. 2313; Affordable Care Act (e.g., Play or Pay rules; small business health care tax credit; information reporting by applicable large employers on health insurance coverage offered under employer-sponsored plans, and information reporting of minimum essential coverage); Interest Rate Determination Method (adjusted AFRs/Long-term tax-exempt rates); Estate Tax Expat Issues, S 744; Rev. Proc. 99-6; Technical termination rules (Sec. 708, Sec. 197); State Sales Tax Collection/Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), S. 336, S. 743, HR 684; Rev. Proc. 97-27 (non-automatic changes in method of accounting); Accounting method changes (Sec. 381)
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564/S 1526; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
SHIELD Act, HR 845; Patent Quality Improvement Act, S 866
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
EEOC consideration of reclassifying partners as employees under Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, HR 1406
S. Amdt. 67 to HR 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, HR 313; Conference Accountability Act of 2013, S 1347
Adding accounting under STEM; Increase H-1B cap; Uncap H-1B numbers for advanced degree holderes; Add/roll over unused green card numbers available each year; Border Security Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744; HR 2131 - SKILLS Visa Act.
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS via AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
2013 · second_quarter · Q2
SHIELD Act, H.R. 845; Patent Quality Improvement Act, S 866.
EEOC consideration of reclassifying partners as employees under Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, HR 1406
Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, HR 1682/S 799; Appraisals of ESOP, DOL Fiduciary Rule S. 273/HR 2041
Common Sense Economic Recovery Act, H.R. 927.
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief, HR 2137; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft including truncatedtaxpayer identification numbers (TTINs) and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013, H.R. 295; S 676, Identify Theft & Tax Fraud Prevention Act of 2013; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) and its e-filing requirements; the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a). Amended Forms 1099; IRS e-services, Regulatory and legislative changes to civil tax penalties; IRS weather-related impacts on filing due dates; IRS filing season; IRC section 1298(f) filing requirements; legislative proposals related to the cash basis of accounting; HR 1570 regarding preparer regulation; S 1134 and HR 2313 regarding enrolled agents
Adding accountin under STEM; Increase H-1B cap; Uncap H-1B numbers for advanced degree holderes; Add/roll over unused green card numbers available each year; Border Security Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S 744; HR 2131 - SKILLS Visa Act.
S. Amdt. 67 to H.R. 933 to restrict the number of government employees who can attend a meeting; The Government Spending Accountability Act of 2013, H.R. 313
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062; Retail Investor Protection Act, HR 2374; Municipal Advisory Relief Act of 2013, S 710; Investment Advisory Examination Improvement Act of 2013, HR 1627.
Data Transparency; DATA Act, S 994, HR 2061; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability; Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act, HR 1564; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848; CLEAR Relief Act of 2013, HR 1750; PCAOB Enforcement Transparency Act of 2013, S 848.
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
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Common Sense Economic Recovery Act, H.R. 927. Revision of Sarbanes-Oxley rules on disclosure of disciplinary proceedings.
Draft bill by Cong. Nunes/Burr regarding Public Employee Pension Transparency; definition of fiduciary, S. 273
Regulation of Municipal Advisors, H.R. 797; SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, H.R. 1062
S. Amdt. 67 to H.R. 933; H.R. 313
Adding accounting under STEM; Increase H-1B cap; Uncap H-1B numbers for advanced degree holders; Add/roll over unused green card numbers available each year.
Tax Reform, H.R. 1; Due dates of tax returns (H.R. 901 and S. 420); Mobile workforce (H.R. 1129); Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief; Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTIN) registration process; Tax penalties (including the definition of tax shelters; significant purpose; reasonable cause exception to penalties under sections 6707A and 6662A; reasonable cause exception to the section 6676 penalty for erroneous claim for refund or credit; Form 3520 and 3520-A penalties); Identity theft (including truncated taxpayeridentification numbers (TTINs))and S. 149, Stop Identity Theft Act of 2013 and H.R. 295; Qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) election relief; Tax Reform (including alternative minimum tax (AMT), education incentives, earned income tax credit, phase-outs, Kiddie Tax, retirement plan options, inflation adjustments, unused provisions deadwood, the Tax Gap, and terms with multiple definitions in the Internal Revenue Code); repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans, harmonize and simplify education-related tax provisions, standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for adjusted gross income (AGI); clarify and simplify reporting of cancellation of debt income; provide parity for employees and self-employed individuals on the deduction of health insurance costs; remove reference to section 332 from section 367(a)(i); allow a reasonable cause exception to the section 6707A and 6662A penalties; repeal the section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; allow transfer of partnership suspended losses to one another when spousal transfers under section 1041(a) tax place; clarify that husband and wife partnerships are recognized under state law are eligible to elect Qualified Joint Venture status under section 761(f); allow an offset to the built-in gains tax for charitable contribution and foreign tax credit carryforwards from a C year; add a new 120-day post-termination transition period (PTTP) beginning on the date that a taxpayer files an amended Form 1120S; allow S corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; repeal section 1362(d)(3), which terminates an S election due to passive investment income that exceeds a certain threshold, or increase the passive investment income (PII) threshold of S corporations under 1375(a)(2) from 25 percent to 60 percent; allow administrative relief for certain late qualified terminable interest property (QTIP) and qualified revocable trust (QRT) elections; treat consistently all federal tax payments of trusts and estates; amend section 67(e) to simplify the law and allow estates and nongrantor trusts to fully deduct the cost of complying with fiduciary duties in administering estates and trusts; exempt from the filing requirement of section 6034(a) trusts with charitable deductions only from flow-through entities; allow a single six-month automatic extension for entire Form 990 series and other information, excise and income tax returns of exempt organizations; reinstate and make permanent the fair market value exception under section 512(b)(13) and remove the binding contract requirement; expand the exception from section 509(f)(2), which prohibits an organization from qualifying for section 509(a)(3) status if it accepted certain gifts, to be consistent with the technical change made to section 4958(c)(3)(C); Form 1099B and Form 8949; Form 1040 Questions on Schedule E relating to Form 1099 requirement; guidance on tax issues for registered domestic partners; Section 6050P, IR 2012-65 (Cancellation of debt); Section 1411; Form 990 and instructions; Form 3115; e-filing for exempt organizations; public disclosure of information on exempt organization forms; top-heavy rules; speaking with Government Accountability Office (GAO) on retirement plan sponsor reporting and disclosure requirements, and issues pertaining to electronic disclosure of content to participants; Play or Pay rules (employer-provided healthcare); mid-year amenders on safe harbor plans; use of forfeitures on making certain qualified contributions; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); automatic penalties assessed on Form 5471; TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR); the Retail Inventory Method; Rev. Proc. 97-27; estimated taxes and success based fees; Internal Revenue Services (IRSs) release in the delay of tax forms and abatement of penalties for late payment of tax; IRS preparer compliance visits; Section 7216; uncertain tax positions (UTP); individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs); Form 1099-K; Form 8937 (form used to report organizational actions affecting basis); Mexican land trusts (Fideicomisos); Form 1120S; and repair regulations (Sec. 263a).
Data Transparency; Medicaid Integrity Act of 2013, H.R. 162 (audits of Medicaid Managed Care programs). Revisions of the JOBS Act, including mandatory audit firm rotation. Auditor liability.
SHIELD Act, H.R. 845
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
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2012 · fourth_quarter · Q4
HR 2827 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to clarify provisions relating to the regulation of municipal advisors. HR 6161 - Redefining "accelerated filer"
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2943 - Short Term TANF Extension Act; HR 3339 Standard DATA Act - provisions dealing with data standards. HR 3213 - Small Company Job Growth Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011. HR 3630 - Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with social security data standards. S 3600 - Data Act. HR 4631 - GSA Act of 2012, HR 3659 - Welfare Integrity and Data Improvement Act - provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3433 - GRANT Act - website reporting sections and single audit sections. HR 2056 - Provisions relating to accounting treatment (c)(2)(c) and section 3(a)(2). S 1962 and HR 2941 - Start-up Expansion and Investment Act. HR 1723 - Common Sense Economic Recovery Act - provisions relating to non-accrual loans. HR 1697 - Communities First Act. HR 1070 - Small Company Capital Formation - provisions on yearly audits. S 1866 and HR 3476 - AGREE Act - provisions on audits. HR 3655 - Small Business Access to Capital Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with government conferences. HR 4631 - provisions dealing with government conferences. S 1907/HR 3505 - dealing with PCAOB disciplinary hearings.
Appraisals of ESOPs DOL Fiduciary Rule; S 1232 - Exempt Appraisers of ESOPs from Fiduciary Definition
IRC Section 67(e) Deductibility of trust administration expenses; Circular 230 - Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations, nonsigning preparers; ATM; S 845/HR 2382 - Tax Reform Due Dates. HR 674/S 89/S 1720/S 1726/S 1762/S 1885. Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Revise the due date of the reporting requirement for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonable and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresidential aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; Corrections on nonqualified referred compensation plan failures under Section 490(A) built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c) exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return preparers by IRS; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues; HR 1864/S 3485 (Mobile workforce); IRS requests for accounting software; IRS uncertain tax return position programs (including Schedule M-3); Foreign bank account reporting (FinCen); Discussions with bank Security Act Advisory Group; Mandatory e-filing of FBARs; Form 990 Revisions; IRS suitability checks/fingerprinting and FOIA requests related to PTIN iProgram; GST legislative modications; Form 706/Form 8939 - carryover basis issues; taxation of large partnerships; HR 1697 - Community banking Relief; IRS Real Time Tax System; Form 8938 (requests for foreign financial information); Form 8949/Form 1099B (basis reporting) Form 8937 (Corporate organization changes); Preparer fraud penalty; Treasury/IRS regulatory business plan; Notice 2012-25 - Change in trust beneficial interests ("decanting"); TS 9522 and controlled groups that include S Corps for Section 179 purposes; Alternate valuation method under Section 2032; Enactment of permanent gift, estate and GST tax provisions; Make permanent GSTT technical modifications in EGTRRA; Administrative relief of late QTIP and QRT elections S 2271 - S Corporation "fast-tract" elections; carried interests. HR 4106; S Corp Modernization Act of 2011 - HR 1478. HR 5630 - Fraudulent under statement of a taxpayers' liability by a tax return preparer; IRS guidance related to tangible property capitalization; farm Service Agency/Agriculture Department - "Certifications" under Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008; Comments to IRS on penalties for certain late filings resulting from inadvertent partnership technical terminations; S 2271 - Support for "The Small Business Election Simplification Act"; Gift card regulatory guidance (IRS); Identity theft issues including ITIN Guidance (IRS); CPA definition for IRS PTIN database; Taxpayer's Hassle Reduction Act (Rep Tim Scott (SC)); IRS 2012 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program; Rev. Proc. 99-5 & 99-6 - conversations from a single member LLC to a partnership (and vice versa). House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access Testimony (uncertainty impacting small business); Changes to IRS Circular 230. Basis reporting - Forms 1099-B and Form 8949; Income tax reporting for registered domestic partners; Section 1411; Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers; Form 1099-K; Incorrect IRS notices on Form 3520; De minimis rule for partner's substantial economic effect (Section 704(b)); Proposed regulations on S corporation shareholder basis in indebtedness and back-to-back loans; Second class of stock issue for S corporations; Section 482; Retail inventory method; HR 6683 - Hurricane Sandy Tax Relief Act of 2012; Tax penalty reform; Comprehensive tax reform; Rationalization of phase-outs; Earned income tax credit; Different definitions of the same term within the Internal Revenue Code; Simplification of the Kiddie Tax; Simplification of retirement plan options; Inflation adjustments; Unused Tax Provisions (a.k.a. "deadwood")
Dodd Frank Act implentation (Section 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011; HR 2827/S 3620 - provisions dealing with exemption for municipal advisors; S 1483 - Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act - provisions dealing with public disclosure of beneficial owners of private companies; HR 2056 - To instruct the Inspector General of FDIC to study the impact of insured depository institutions failures - regulatory captal provisions
S 1789 ES - 21st Century Postal Reform Act - provisions dealing with government conference
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
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2012 · third_quarter · Q3
Dodd Frank Act implentation (Section 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011; HR 2827/S 3620 - provisions dealing with exemption for municiple advisors; S 1483 - Incorporation Transparancy and Law Enforcement Assistance Act - provisions dealing with public disclosure of beneficial owners of private companies; HR 2056 - To instruct the Inspector general of FDIC to study the impact of insured depository institutions failures - regulatory capital provisions
Appraisals of ESOPs DOL Fiduciary Rule; S 1232 - Exempt Appraisals from Fiduciary Definition
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2012 · second_quarter · Q2
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Section 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011; HR 2827 - provisions dealing with exemption for municiple advisors; S 1483 - Incorporation Transparacy and Law Enforcement Assistance Act - provisions dealing with public disclosure of beneficial owners of private companies; HR 2056 - To instruct the Inspector General of FDIC to study the impact of insured depository institutions failures - regulatory capital provisions
Appraisals of ESOPs DOL Fiduciary Rule; S 1232 - Exempt Appraisals from Fiduciary Definition
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2012 · first_quarter · Q1
IC Section 67(e) Deductibility of trust administration expenses; Circular 230 - Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations, nonsigning preparers; AMT; S 845/HR 2382 - Tax Return Due Dates. HR 674/S 89/S 164/S 1720/S 1726/S 1762/S1885 - 3% witholding provision; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirement for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonable and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(I) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresidential aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; Corrections on nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 490(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c); Exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return preparers by IRS; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues; HR 1864 (Mobile workforce); IRS requests for accounting software; IRS uncertain tax return position programs (including Scedule M-3); Foreign bank account reporting (FinCen); Discussions with Bank Security Act Advisory Group; Mandatory e-filing of FBARs; Form 990 Revisions; IRS suitability checks/fingerprinting and F0IA requests related to PTIN Program; GST legislative modifications; Form 706/Form 8939 - carryover basis issues; taxation of large partnerships; HR 1697 - Community Banking Relief; IRS Real Time Tax System; Form 8938 (requests for foreign financial information); Form 8949/Form 1099B (basis reporting); Form 8937 (Corporate organziational changes); Preparer fraud penalty; Treasury/IRS regulatory business plan; Notice 2011-101 - Change in trust beneficial interests ("decanting"); TD 9522 and controlled groups that include S Corps for Section 179 purposes; Alternate valuation method under Section 2032; Enactment of permanent gift, estate and GST tax provisions; Make permanent GSTT technical modifications in EGTRRA; Administrative relief or late QTIP and QRT elections; S 2271 - S Corporation "fast-track" elections; Carried interests
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2011 · fourth_quarter · Q4
Appraisals of ESOPs DOL Fiduciary Rule; S 1232 - Exempt Appraisals from Fiduciary Definition
S 23 (Intelligent Properity Jurisdiction Clarification Act of 2011 - Section 14 Tax Strategy Patents); S 139 (Equal Access to Tax Planning); HR 1249 (America Invests Act - Section 13 Tax Strategy Patents)
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions delaing with data standards; HR 1745/S 904 - Jobs Act of 2011 -provisions dealing with data standards. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011; HR 2827 - provisions dealing with exemption for municiple advisors; S 1483 - Incorporation Transparacy and Law Enforcement Assistance Act - provisions dealing with public disclosure of beneficial owners of private companies. HR 2056 - To instruct the Inspector General of the FDIC to study the impact of insured depository institutions failures - regulatory capital provisions
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2011 · third_quarter · Q3
Appraisals of ESOPs DOL Fiduciary Rule; S 1232 - Exempt Appraisals from Fiduciary Definition
S 23 (Intelligent Properity Jurisdiction Clarifcation Act of 2011 - Section 14 Tax Strategy Patents); S 139 (Equal Access to Tax Planning); HR 1249 (America Invests Act - Section 13 Tax Strategy Patents)
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 1745/S 902 - Jobs Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards. HR 2883/S 1542 - Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act. Draft legislation - Small Company Job Growth and Regulatory Relief Act of 2011 by Rep. Fincher. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011. HR 2056 - Provisions relating to accounting treatment (c) (2)(c) and Section 3(a)(2). H R 2941 - Start-up Expansion and Investment Act. HR 1723 - Common Sense Economic Recovery Act - provisions relating to non-accrual loans. HR 1697 - Communities First Act. HR 1070 - Small Company Capital Formation - provisions on yearly audits.
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2011 · second_quarter · Q2
HR 4 - Small Business Paperwork mandate Elimination Act of 2011; S 223 (Air Transportation modernization and Safety Improvement Act - Provisions relating to the repeal of Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and section 2101 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010); S 18 (Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Ave - provisions relating o the repeal of section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Section 2101 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010) S. Amendment 161 to S. 493 - SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 (Provisions relating to the repeal of Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Section 2101 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010); IC Section 67(e) (deductibility of trust administration expenses); Circular 230 - Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations, nonsigning preparers; AMT; S 845/HR 2382 - Tax Return Due Dates; HR 674/S 89/S 164 - 3% withholding provision; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresidential aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; IRS Guidance Priority Plan; Corrections on nonqualifiied deferred compensation plan failures under Section 409(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c); Repeal of Section 9006 of PL 111-148 regarding forms 1099-miscellaneous information returns; Extending the due date of employee plan returns; Exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return prepares by IRS; Repeal of Section 2101 of PL 111-240 regarding forms 1099, HR 4 - miscellaneous information returns; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues; HR 1864 (Mobile workforce); IRS requests for accounting software; IRS practitioner compliance visits; IRS uncertain tax return position programs (including Schedule M-3)
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2011 · first_quarter · Q1
HR 4 (Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011); S 223 (Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act - Provisions relating to the repeal of section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and section 2101 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010); S 18 (Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act - provisions relating to the repeal of section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and section 2101 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010) S. Amend. 161 to S. 493 - SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2011 (Provisions relating to the repeal of section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and section 2101 of the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010); IRC Section 67(e) (deductibility of trust administration expenses); Preparer regulation including PTTN regulations, nonsigning preparers; AMT; Tax return due dates; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension Funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; IRS Guidance Priority Test; Corrections on Nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 409(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c); Repeal of Section 9006 of PL 111-148 regarding forms 1099-miscellaneous information returns; Changes to tax return due dates; Extending the due date of employee plan returns; Exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return prepares by IRS; Repeal of section 2101 of PL 111-240 regarding forms 1099, miscellaneous information returns; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues
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2010 · second_quarter · 2A
HR 607 (fair value accounting); HR 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley act); HR 1349 (federal accounting oversight board); HR 1406 (mark to market accounting); HR 1797 (Sarbanes Oxley act); HR 1909 (mark to market accounting); Financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers; Single Audits; HR 3346 (Sarbanes oxley act); HR 4110 Comptroller General of GAO to be CPA; S. 1508 (Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act)
HR 2110 State income tax simplification mobile workforce; S 506/HR 1265 International Tax Provisions/Economic Substance/Patents; S 144/HR 690 Mobile Cell Phone Act, HR 436 Carry-over Basis Estate Tax Reform; HR 3200 Economic Substance, More Likely than Not Standard; S 437 - Allow certain attorney fees and court cost deductions for AGI IRC Section 67(3) deductibility of trust administration expenses); Prepare regulation including PTIN regulations; ATM; Tax return due dates Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension Funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty if the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122 (c )(1) requirement to provide a 20 % partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; HR 4213 (American Workers, State and Business Relief Act of 2010); Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; IRS Guidance Priority Test; Corrections on Nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 409(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704( c); Repeal of Section 9006 of PL 111-148 regarding forms 1099- miscellaneous information returns; HR 5141 -- Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act Mark
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2010 · fourth_quarter · Q4
HR 2110 State income tax simplification - "mobile workforce"; S 506/HR 1265 - Economic Substances/patents; S 144/HR 690 - Mobile Cell Phone Act; HR 436 - Carry-over Basis Estate Tax Reform; HR 3200 - Economic Substance, More Likely Than Not Standard; S 437 - Allow certain attorney fees and court cost deductions for AGI; IRC Section 67(e) (deductibility of trust administration expenses); Preparer regulation including PTIN, user fee, nonsigning preparers, and Circular 230 regulations; AMT; Tax return due dates; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension Funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty if the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(1) requiremnet to provide a 20% partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiares of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; HR 4213 (American Workers, State and Business Relief Act of 2010); Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; Corrections on Nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 409(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c); Repeal of Section 9006 of PL 111-148 regarding forms 1099-miscellaneous information returns; HR 5141 - Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act; Mandatory E-filing; Section 704(c) built in gains and losses; Gift Tax Treatment for transfers to grantor trusts; International Provisions in HR 847/HR 5982/HR 5893/HR 5901/HR 4213; Self Employment Tax for S Corporations shareholder provisions of HR 4213; Uncertain Tax Provisions; Changes to tax return due dates; Extending the due date of employee plan returns (PTW, this was also pushed with PBGC & labor); Exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax returns preparers by IRS; Repeal of Section 2101 of PL 111-240 regarding forms 1099-miscellaneous returns; Foreign trust aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues;
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2010 · third_quarter · Q3
HR 2110 State income tax simplification - "mobile workforce" ; S 506/HR 1265 - Economic Substance/patents; S 144/HR 690 - Mobile Cell Phone Act; HR 436 - Carry-over Basis Estate Tax Reform; HR 3200 - Economic Substance, More Likely Than Not Standard; S 437 - Allow certain attorney fees and court cost deductions for AGI; IRC Section 67(e) (deductibility of trust administration expenses); Preparer regulation including PTIN user fee, and Circular 230 regulations; AMT; Tax return due dates; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension Funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty if the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122 (c )(1) requirement to provide a 20 % partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; HR 4213 (American Workers, State and Business Relief Act of 2010); Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; Corrections on Nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 409(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704( c); Repeal of Section 9006 of PL 111-148 regarding forms 1099- miscellaneous information returns; HR 5141 -- Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act; Mandatory E-filing; Section 704( c) built in gains and losses; Gift Tax Treatment for transfers to grantor trusts; International Provisions in HR 847/HR 5982/HR 5893/HR 5901/HR 4213; Self Employment Tax for S Corporations shareholder provisions of HR 4213; Uncertain Tax Provisions
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2010 · second_quarter · Q2
HR 607 (fair value accounting); HR 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley act); HR 1349 (federal accounting oversight board); HR 1406 (mark to market accounting); HR 1797 (Sarbanes Oxley act); HR 1909 (mark to market accounting); Financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers; Single Audits; HR 3346 (Sarbanes oxley act); HR 4110 Comptroller General of GAO to be CPA; S. 1508 (Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act)
HR 2989 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 3936 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 4213 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding); HR 3962 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding)
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2010 · first_quarter · Q1
HR 607 (fair value accounting); HR 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 1349 (Federal Accounting Oversight Board); HR 1406 (Mark to Market accounting); HR 1797 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 1909 (mark-to-market accounting); financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers; Single Audits; HR 3346 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 4110 (Comptroller General of GAO to be CPA)
HR 2989 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 3936 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 4213 (provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding)
S 1504 (Noticed Pleading Restoration Act); S 1551 (aiding and abetting); HR 3126 (Consumer Financial Protection Act); HR 4116 (Open Access to Justice)
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2009 · fourth_quarter · Q4
S 664 (financial markets reform); HR 4173 (Financial Regulation; HR 3763 (FTC Red Flags Rule); Dodd Financial Regulation Discussion Draft
HR 607 (fair value accounting); Hr 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 1349 (Federal Accounting Oversight Board); HR 1406 (mark-to-market accounting); HR 1797 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act); HR 1909 (mark-to-market accounting); financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers; Single Audits; HR 3346 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 4110 (Comptroller General of GAO to be CPA)
S 1504 (Noticed Pleading Restoration Act); S 1551 (aiding and abetting); HR 3126 (Consumer Financail Protection Act); HR 4115 (Open Access to Justice)
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2009 · third_quarter · Q3
H.R. 607 (fair value accounting); H.R. 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); H.R. 1349 (Federal Accounting Oversight Board); H.R. 1406 (mark-to-market accounting); H.R. 1797 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act); H.R. 1909 (mark-to-market accounting); financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers; Single Audits; H.R. 3346 (Sarbanes Oxley Act)
S. 664 (financial markets reform); S. 1504 (Noticed Pleading Restoration Act); S. 1551 (aiding and abetting); H.R. 3126 (Consumer Financial Protection Act); Federal Trade Commission - red flag rules.
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2009 · second_quarter · Q2
H.R. 607 (fair value accounting), H.R. 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), H.R. 1349 (Federal Accounting Oversight Board), H.R. 1406 (mark-to-market accounting), H.R. 1797 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), H.R. 1909 (mark-to-market accounting), financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers
H.R. 2989 (defined benefit pension funding)
S. 664 (financial markets reform), H.R. 3126 (Consumer Financial Protection Agency)
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2009 · first_quarter · Q1
S. 506/H.R. 1265 (internaitonal tax provisions/economic substance/patents), S. 144/H.R. 690 (MOBILE Cell Phone Act), H.R. 436 (carry-over basis), tax strategy patents, mobile workforce state income tax, IRC Section 67(e) (deductibility of trust administration expenses, Section 7216 (confidentiality), Section 6694 (preparer penalty, preparer regulation, alternative minimum tax, tax return due dates
S. 664 (financial markets reform)
Pension funding
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2008 · fourth_quarter · Q4
HR 1360 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), HR 1591 (Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2206 (Tax Preparer Standards, Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2345 (Economic Substance), S 785 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), S 832 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1321 (Confidentiality and Penalty Provisions), HR 3359 (Mobile Workforce State Income Tax and Simplification Act), HR 4318 (Restore Tax Preparer Standard at "Substantial Authority"), S 2242 (Economic Substance) HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3997 (Expatriation), HR 2419 (Economic Substance), HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3056 (Expatriation Tax), HR 3396 (Expatriation Tax), S 2345 (Expatriation Tax), HR 3170 (Estate Tax), HR 3475 (Estate Tax), HR 4172 (Estate Tax), HR 4235 (Estate Tax), HR 4242 (Estate Tax), H.R. 6049 (Tax Preparer Penalties), S. 2851 (Tax Preparer Penalties), H.R. 5719 (Tax Preparer Penalties and Listed Property - Communication Devices), S. 2668 (Listed Property - Communication Devices), H.R. 5450 (Listed Property - Communication Devices), H.R. 6081 (Tax Expatriation), S. 1219 (Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2007), H.R. 5716 (Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2008), S. 3335 (Extenders; Tax Preparer Penalties), HR 1424 (Tax Prepare Penalties), Estate & Trust Administrative Costs (Knight v. CIR), HR 7060 (Tax Preparer Penalties), HR 7327 (Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 -- funding for defined benefit pension plans), HR 1424 (Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 -- Tax Preparer Penalties, Mark-to-Market Study)
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2008 · third_quarter · Q3
HR 1752 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 1852 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), S 2338 (FHA Modernization Act), Audit issues of interest to the AICPA's Governmental Audit Quality Center, S. 2325 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), H.R. 6254 (Temporary Participation of FHA Mortgage Brokers/Lenders), HUD Proposal to Establish an Independent Public Accountant Roster HR 1452 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 6790 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 3221 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 6790 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers)
HR 1908 (Patent Reform), HR 2136 (Tax Strategy Patents), HR 2365 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 681 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 1145 (Patent Reform), S 2369 (Tax Patents)
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2008 · second_quarter · Q2
HR 2419 (Farm Credit System Loans), S 2302 (Farm Credit System Loans)
HR 1429 (Audit Partner Rotation), HR 1630 (Rotation), S 556 (Audit Partner Rotation)
HR 46 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 270 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 2818 (Small Business Health Plans), S. 2795 (Small Business Health Purchasing Pool), H.R. 5918 (Small Business Health Options)
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2008 · first_quarter · Q1
HR 46 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 270 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 2818 (Small Business Health Plans)
HR 1752 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 1852 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), S 2338 (FHA Modernization Act), Audit issues of interest to the AICPA's Governmental Audit Quality Center
HR 1429 (Audit Partner Rotation), HR 1630 (Rotation), S 556 (Audit Partner Rotation)
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2007 · year_end · YA
HR 2419 (Farm Credit System Loans), S 2302 (Farm Credit System Loans)
HR 1752 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 1852 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), S 2338 (FHA Modernization Act)
HR 1908 (Patent Reform), HR 2136 (Tax Patents), HR 2365 (Tax Patents), S 681 (Tax Patents), S 1145 (Patent Reform), S 2369 (Tax Patents)
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2007 · year_end · YY
HR 1360 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), HR 1591 (Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2206 (Tax Preparer Standards, Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2345 (Economic Substance), S 785 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), S 832 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1321 (Confidentiality and Penalty Provisions), HR 3359 (Mobile Workforce State Income Tax and Simplification Act), HR 4318 (Restore Tax Preparer Standard at "Substantial Authority"), S 2242 (Economic Substance)
HR 46 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 270 (Small Business Tax Flexibility)
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2007 · mid_year · MM
HR 1908 (patent reform), HR 2136 (tax patents), HR 2365 (tax patents), S 681 (tax patents), S 1145 (patent reform)
HR 1360 (nonresident telecommuter taxation) , HR 1591 (non-resident alien provision), HR 2206 (tax preparer standards, non resident alien provision), HR 2345 ( economic substance), S 785 (nonresident telecommuter taxation), S 832 (regulation of preparers), S 1321 (confidentiality)
HR 2419 (farm credit system loans)
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2006 · year_end · YA
HR 1416, HR 2387, HR 1641, HR 1657, HR 913, HR 3505, HR 2061, HR 3997, HR 4127, S 190, S 256, HR 2856, HR 5024, S 2824, HR 5405, HR 5121 S 3535
HR 2123, S 1107
HR 1508, HR 525, HR 2831, HR 2830, HR 4019, S 219, S 1783
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2006 · year_end · YY
HR 1508, HR 525, HR 2831, HR 2830, HR 4019, S 219, S 1783
HR 196, HR 339, HR 809, HR 1234, HR 1500, HR 1684, HR 2121, HR 4006, HR 4297, S 7, S 8, S 758, S 849, S 1624, S 1565, S 1568, S 1685, S 1780, S 1789, HR 4520, HR 5638, S 832, S 2462, S 2688, HR 1932, S 2020, HR 4019, HR 6167
HR 1416, HR 2387, HR 1641, HR 1657, HR 913, HR 3505, HR 2061, HR 3997, HR 4127, S 190, S 256, HR 2856, HR 5024, S 2824, HR 5405, HR 5121, S 3535
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2006 · mid_year · MM
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2005 · year_end · YY
HR 913, HR 1416, HR 1641, HR 1657, HR 2061, HR 2387, HR 3505, HR 3997, HR 4127, S 190, S 256
HR 3505, HR 2387, HR 3997, HR 4127
HR 1508, HR 525, HR 2831, HR 2830, HR 4019, S 219, S 1783
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2005 · mid_year · MM
S 758, S 849, HR 1684, S 1685, S 7, S 1624, HR 2121, HR 196, HR 339, HR 809, HR 1500, S 1565, HR 1234, S 1568, S 78
HR 525, S 406, HR 2203
S 190, HR 1416, HR 2387, HR 1641, HR 1657, S 256, HR 913, HR 3505, HR 2061
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2004 · year_end · YY
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2004 · mid_year · MM
Filing targets: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of
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2003 · year_end · YY
Filing targets: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
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2003 · mid_year · MM
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
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2002 · year_end · YY
Filing targets: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of
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2002 · mid_year · MM
Filing targets: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of
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2001 · mid_year · MM
Filing targets: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of
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2000 · year_end · YY
Filing targets: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Treasury, Dept of
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2000 · mid_year · MM
Filing targets: Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
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1999 · year_end · YY
Filing targets: Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
IC Section 67(e) Deductibility of trust administration expenses; Circular 230 - Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations, nonsigning preparers; AMT; S 845/HR 2382 - Tax Return Due Dates. HR 674/S 89/S 164/S 1720/S 1726/ S 1762/ S 1885. Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Revise the due date of the reporting requirement for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonable and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(I) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresidential aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; modification of information reporting requiremetns under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; Corrections on nonqualified eferred comprensation plan failures under Section 490(A); built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c) exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return preparers by IRS; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues; HR 1864/S 3485 (Mobile workforce); IRS requests for accounting software; IRS uncertain tax return position programs (including Schedule M-3); Foreign bank account reporting (FinCen); Discussions iwth bank Security Act Advisory Group; Mandatory e-filing of FBARs; Form 990 Rervisions; IRS suitability checks/fingerprinting and FOIA requests related to PTIN iProgram; GST legislative modifications; Form 706/Form 8939 - carryover basis issues; taxation of large partnerships; HR 1697 - Community banking Relief; IRS Real Time Tax System; Form 8938 (requests for foreign financial information); Form 8949/Form 1099B (basis reporting); Form 8937 (Corporate organization changes); Preparer fraud penalty; Treasury/IRS regulatory business plan; Notice 2012-25 - Change in trust beneficial interests ("decanting"); TS 9522 and controlled groups that include S Corps for Section 179 purposes; Alternate valuation method under Section 2032; Enactment of permanent gift, estate and GST tax provisions; Make permanent GSTT tehnical modifications in EGTRRA; Administrative relief of late QTIP and QRT elections; S 2271 - S Corporation "fast-track" elections; carried interests. HR 4106; S Corp Modernization Act of 2011 - HR 1478. HR 5630 - Fraudulent under statment of a taxpayers' liability by a tax return preparer; IRS guidance related to tangible property capitalization; Farm Service Agency/Agriculture Department - "Certifications" under Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008; Comments to IRS on penalties for certain late filings resulting from inadvertant partnership technical terminations; S 2271 - Support for "The Small business Election Simplification Act"; Gift card regulatory guidance (IRS); Identity theft issues including ITIN Guidance (IRS); CPA definition for IRS PTIN database; Taxpayer's Hassle Reduction Act (Rep Tim Scott (SC)); IRS 2012 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program; Rev. Proc. 99-5 & 99-6 - conversions from a single member LLC to a partnership (and vice versa). House Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Captital Access Testimony (uncertainty impacting small business); Changes to IRS Circular 230.
HR 2827 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to clarify provisions relating to the regulation of municipal advisors. HR 6161 - Redefining "accelerated filer"
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222-Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2943 - Short Term TANF Extension Act; HR 3339 Standard DATA Act - provisions dealing with data standards. HR 3213 - Small Company Job Growth Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011. HR 3630 - Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with social security data standards. S. 3600 - Data Act. HR 4631 - GSA Act of 2012. HR 3659 - Welfare Integrity and Data Improvement Act - provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3433 - GRANT Act - website reporting sections and single audit sections. HR 2056 - Provisions relating to accounting treatment (c)(2)(c) and section 3(a)(2). S 1962 and HR 2941 - Start-up Expansion and Investment Act. HR 1723 - Common Sense Economic Recovery Act - provisions relating to non-accrual loans. HR 1697 - Communities First Act. HR 1070 - Small Company Capital Formation - provisions on yearly audits. S 1866 and HR 3476 - AGREE Act - provisions on audits. HR 3655 - Small Business Access to Capital Act of 2011 - provisions on audits. SA 936 to HR 2354 - provisions on audits. S 1965 - Startup Act of 2011 - GAO study on audit costs. S 1962 - Startup Expansion and Investment Act - provisions on audits. Data Act, HR 2146 - provisions dealing with government conferences. HR 4631 - provisions dealing with government conferences. S 1907/HR 3505 - dealing with PCAOB disciplinary hearings.
S 1789 ES - 21st Century Postal Reform Act - provisions dealing with government conferences
Filing targets: Agriculture, Dept of (USDA), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
Dodd Frank Act implemenation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222- Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2943 - Short Term TANF Extension Act; HR 3339 - Standard DATA Act - provision dealing with data standards. HR 3213 - Small Company Job Growth Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Avt of 2011. HR 3630 - Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3659 - Welfare Integrity and Data Improvement Act j- provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3433 - GRANT Act - website reporting sectionsand single audit sections. HR 2056 - Provisions relating to accounting treatment (c)(2)(c) and section 3(a)(2). S 1962 and HR 2941 - Start-up Expansion and Investment Act. HR 1723 - Common Sense Economic Recovery Act - provisions relating to non-accrual loans. HR 1697 - Communities First Act. HR 1070 - Small Company Capital Formation - provisions on yearly audits. HR 3606 and S 1933 - Jump Start Our Business Startups Act - provisions on audits and accounting standards. S 1866 and HR 3476 - AGREE Act - provisions on audits. HR 3655 - Small Business Access to Capital Act of 2011 - provisions on audits. SA 936 to HR 2354 - provisions on audits. S 1965 - Startup Act of 2011 - GAO study on audit costs. S 1962 - Startup Expansion and Investment Act - provisions on audits. Data Act, HR 2146 - provisions dealing with government conferences. HR 4631 - provisions dealing with government conferences. S 1907/HR 3505 - dealing with PCAOB disciplinary hearings.
HR 2827 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to clarify provisions relating to the regulation of municipal advisors
S 1789ES - 21st Century Postal Reform Act - provisions dealing with government conferences
IC Section 67(e) Deductibility of trust administration expenses; Circular 230 - Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations, nonsigning preparers; AMT; S 845/HR 2382 - Tax Return Due Dates. HR 674/S 89/S 164/S 1720/S 1726/S 1762/S1885. Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Revise the due date of the reporting requirement for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonable and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(I) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresidential aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; Corrections on nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 490(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c); Exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return preparers by IRS; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues; HR 1864 (Mobile workforce); IRS requests for accounting software; IRS uncertain tax return position programs (including Scedule M-3); Foreign bank account reporting (FinCen); Discussions with Bank Security Act Advisory Group; Mandatory e-filing of FBARs; Form 990 Revisions; IRS suitability checks/fingerprinting and F0IA requests related to PTIN Program; GST legislative modifications; Form 706/Form 8939 - carryover basis issues; taxation of large partnerships; HR 1697 - Community Banking Relief; IRS Real Time Tax System; Form 8938 (requests for foreign financial information); Form 8949/Form 1099B (basis reporting); Form 8937 (Corporate organziational changes); Preparer fraud penalty; Treasury/IRS regulatory business plan; Notice 2011-101 - Change in trust beneficial interests ("decanting"); TD 9522 and controlled groups that include S Corps for Section 179 purposes; Alternate valuation method under Section 2032; Enactment of permanent gift, estate and GST tax provisions; Make permanent GSTT technical modifications in EGTRRA; Administrative relief or late QTIP and QRT elections; S 2271 - S Corporation "fast-track" elections; Carried interests. HR 4106; S Corp Modernization Act of 2011 - HR 1478. HR 5630 - Fraudulent under statement of a taxpayers' liability by a tax return preparer; IRS guidance related to tangible property capitalization; Farm Service Agency/Agriculture Department - "Certifications" under Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008; Comments to IRS on penalties for certain late filings resulting from inadvertant partnership technical terminations; IRS/Treasury regulatory business plan comments; S 2271 - Support for "The Small Business Election Simplification Act"; Gift card regulatory guidance (IRS); Identity theft issues including ITIN Guidance (IRS) and roundtable hosted by Rep. Bilirakis; CPA definition for IRS PTIN database; Taxpayer's Hassle Reduction Act (Rep. Tim Scott (SC)); IRS 2012 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program; Rev. Proc. 99-5 & 99-6 - conversions from a single member LLC to a partnership (and vice versa)
Filing targets: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
Appraisals of ESOPs DOL Fiduciary Rule; S 1232 - Exempt Appraisals from Fiduciary Definition
HR 2827 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to clarify provisions relating to the regulation of municipal advisors
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Section 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011; HR 2827 - provisions dealing with exemption for municiple advisors; S 1483 - Incorporation Transparacy and Law Enforcement Assistance Act - provisions dealing with public disclosure of beneficial owners of private companies; HR 2046 - To instruct the Inspector General of FDIC to study the impact of insured depository institutions failures - regulatory capital provisions
Dodd Frank Act implemenation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222- Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2943 - Short Term TANF Extension Act; HR 3339 - Standard DATA Act - provision dealing with data standards. HR 3213 - Small Company Job Growth Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Avt of 2011. HR 3630 - Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3659 - Welfare Integrity and Data Improvement Act j- provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3433 - GRANT Act - website reporting sectionsand single audit sections. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improviement Act of 2011. HR 2056 - Provisions relating to accounting treatment (c)(2)(c) and section 3(a)(2). S 1962 and HR 2941 - Start-up Expansion and Investment Act. HR 1723 - Common Sense Economic Recovery Act - provisions relating to non-accrual loans. HR 1697 - Communities First Act. HR 1070 - Small Company Capital Formation - provisions on yearly audits. HR 3606 and S 1933 - Jump Start Our Business Startups Act - provisions on audits and accounting standards. S 1866 and HR 3476 - AGREE Act - provisions on audits. HR 3655 - Small Business Access to Capital Act of 2011 - provisions on audits. SA 936 to HR 2354 - provisions on audits. S 1965 - Startup Act of 2011 - GAO study on audit costs. S 1962 - Startup Expansion and Investment Act - provisions on audits
Filing targets: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
IC Section 67(e) Deductibility of trust administration expenses; Circular 230 - Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations, nonsigning preparers; AMT; S 845/HR 2382 - Tax Return Due Dates. HR 674/S 89/S 164 - 3% witholding provision; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirement for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonable and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(I) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresidential aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; Corrections on nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 490(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c); Exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return preparers by IRS; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues; HR 1864 (Mobile workforce); IRS requests for accounting software; IRS uncertain tax return position programs (including Scedule M-3); Foreign bank account reporting (FinCen); Discussions with Bank Security Act Advisory Group; Mandatory e-filing of FBARs; Form 990 Revisions; IRS suitability checks/fingerprinting and F0IA requests related to PTIN Program; GST legislative modifications; Form 706/Form 8939 - carryover basis issues; taxation of large partnerships; HR 1697 - Community Banking Relief; IRS Real Time Tax System; Form 8938 (requests for foreign financial information)
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions delaing with data standards; HR 1745/S 904 - Jobs Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards. HR 3339 - Standard DATA Act - provision dealing with data standards. HR 3213 - Small Company Job Growth and Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011. HR 3630 - Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3659 - Welfare Integrity and Data Improvement Act - provisions dealing with social security data standards. HR 3433 - GRANT Act - website reporting sections and single audit sections. HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011. HR 2056 - Provisions relating to accounting treatment (c)(2)(c) and section 3(a)(2). S 1962 and HR 2941 - Start-up Expansion and Investment Act. HR 1723 - Common Sense Economic Recovery Act - provisions relating to non-accrual loans. HR 1697 - Communities First Act. HR 1070 - Small Company Capital Formation - provisions on yearly audits. HR 3666 and S 1933 - Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act of 2011 - provisions on audits and accounting standards. S 1866 and HR 3476 - AGREE Act - provisions on audits. HR 3655 - Small Business Access to Captial Act of 2011 - provisions on audits. SA 936 to HR 2354 - provisions on audits. S 1965 - Startup Act of 2011 - GAO study on audit costs. S 1962 - Startup Expansion and Investment Act - provisions on audits.
HR 2827 - To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to clarify provisions relating to the regulation of municipal advisors
Filing targets: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
IC Section 67(e) (Deductibility of trust administration expenses); Circular 230 - Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations, nonsigning preparers; AMT; S 845/HR 2382 - Tax Return Due Dates; HR 674/S 89/S 164 - 3% witholding provision; Repal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense,and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirement for foreign banks and financail accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty of the taxpayer acts reasonable and in good faith; Repal the Section 7122(c)(I) requirement to provide a 20% partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouces (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresidential aliens as shareholders and pottential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; IRS guidance Priority Plan; Corrections on nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 409(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704(c); Extending the due date of employee plan returns; Exempt status of hospitals; Office visits of tax return preparers by IRs; Rrepeal of Section 2101 of fPL 111-240 regarding forms 1099; HR 4 - miscellaneous informaiton returns; Foreign trusts aspects of FBAR; Carryover basis issues; HR 1864 (Mobile workforce); IRS requests for accounting software; IRS uncertain tax return position programs (including Schedule M-3); Foreign bank account reporting (FinCen); Discussions with Bank Secrecy Act Advistory Group; Mandatory E-filing of FBARs; Form 990 Revisions; IRS suitabilty checks/fingerprinting related to PTIN Program; GST legislative modifications; Form 706/Form 8939 - carryover basis issues; taxation of large partnerships; HR 1697 - Community Banking Relief
Dodd Frank Act implentation (Section 913, 914, 922 929Y, 929Z, 982); Hr 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 1745/S 902 - Jobs Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 2483 - Whistleblower Improvement Act of 2011; HR 2827 - provisions dealing with exemption for municiple advisors; S 1483 - Incorporation Transparancy and Law Enforcement Assistance Act - provisions dealing with public dislosure of beneficial owners of private compani
Filing targets: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Labor, Dept of (DOL), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
S 23 (Intelligent Properity Jurisdiction Clarification Act of 2011 - Section 14 Tax Strategy Patents); S 139 (Equal Access to Tax Planning); HR 1249 (America Invests Act - Section 13 Tax Strategy Patents)
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Sections 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); Draft whistleblower reform legislation; HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 1745/S 902 - Jobs Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Section 913, 914, 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982); HR 2146/S 1222 - Data Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards; HR 1745/S 902 - Jobs Act of 2011 - provisions dealing with data standards
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
Dodd Frank Act implementation (Sections 922, 929Y, 929Z, 982)
S. 23 (Intelligent Property Jurisdiction Clarification Act of 2011 - Section 14 Tax Strategy Patents); S. 139 (Equal Access to Tax Planning); HR 1249 (America Invents Act - Section 13 Tax Strategy Patents)
Dodd Frank Act implementation
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
HR 2989 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 3936 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 4213 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding); HR 3962 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding)
S. 664 (financial markets reform); HR 3126 (CFPA); HR 4173 (Financial Regulation); Dodd Financial Regulation Discussion Draft; S. 3217 Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010; HR 3763/S. 3416 - FTC Red Flags Rules
S. 1504 (Notice Pleading Restoration Act); S. 1551 (Aiding and Abetting); HR 4115 (Open Access to Courts Act); HR 3216 (Consumer Financial Protection Act); HR 4713/S. 3217 (Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 - provisions relating to aiding and abetting)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
HR 2989 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 3936 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 4213 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding); HR 3962 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding)
S 664 (financial markets reform); HR 3126 (CFPA); HR 4173 - Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform; S 3217 Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010; HR 3763/S 3416 - FTC Red Flags Rules; HR 6038 - Financial Industry Transparency Act; S 3717/HR 6086/HR 5924 - SEC FOIA Restoration; S 3987/HR 6420 - Red Flag Clarification Act of 2010
HR 607 (fair value accounting); HR 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 1349 (Federal Accounting Oversight BOard); HR 1406 (mark to market accounting); HR 1797 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 1909 (mark to market accounting); Single Audits; HR 3346 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 4110 Comptroller General of GAO to be CPA; S 1508 (Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act); PCAOB - draft legislation on disciplinary proceedings
S 1504 (Notice Pleading Restoration Act); S 1551 (Aiding and Abetting); HR 4115 (Open Access to Courts Act); HR 3216 (Consumer Financial Protection Act); HR 4713/S 3217 (Restoring American Financial Act of 2010 - provisions relating to aiding and abetting)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
HR 2989 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 3936 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 4213 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding); HR 3962 (Provisions relating to defined benefit pension funding)
S 664 (financial markets reform); HR 3126 (CFPA); HR 4173 - Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform; S 3217 Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010; HR 3763/S 3416 - FTC Red Flags Rules; HR 6038 - Financial Industry Transparency Act; S 3717/HR 6086/HR 5924 - SEC FOIA Restoration
HR 607 (fair value accounting); HR 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 1349 (Federal Accounting Oversight Board); HR 1406 (mark to market accounting); HR 1797 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 1909 (mark to market accounting); Financail statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers; Single Audits; HR 3346 (Sarbanes Oxley Act); HR 4110 Comptroller General of GAO to be CPA; S 1508 (Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act); PCAOB - draft legislation on disciplinary proceedings
S 1504 (Notice Pleading Restoration Act); S 1551 (Aiding and Abetting); HR 4115 (Open Access to Courts Act); HR 3216 (Consumer Financial Protection Act); HR 4713/S 3217 (Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 - provisions relating to aiding and abetting)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
HR 2110 State income tax simplification mobile workforce; S. 506/HR 1265 International Tax Provisions/Economic Substance/Patents; S 144/HR 690 Mobile Cell Phone Act; HR 436 Carry-over Basis Estate Tax Reform; HR 3200 Economic Substance, More Likely than Not Standard; S 437 - Allow certain attorney fees and court cost deductions for AGI; IRC Section 67(e) (deductibility of trust administration expenses); Preparer regulation including PTIN regulations; AMT; Tax return due dates; Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Pension Funding; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign banks and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty if the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122 (c )(1) requirement to provide a 20 % partial payment with a lump sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corps to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; Modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; HR 4213 (American Workers, State and Business Relief Act of 2010); Employment tax treatment of S Corporations; IRS Guidance Priority Test; Corrections on Nonqualified deferred compensation plan failures under Section 409(A); Built in gains and losses relating to partnership mergers under Section 704( c); Repeal of Section 9006 of PL 111-148 regarding forms 1099- miscellaneous information returns; HR 5141 -- Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act
S. 1504 (Notice Pleading Restoration Act); S. 1551 (Aiding and Abetting); HR 4115 (Open Access to Courts Act); HR 3216 (Consumer Financial Protection Act); HR 4713/S. 3217 (Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 - provisions relating to aiding and abetting)
S. 664 (financial markets reform); HR 3126 (CFPA); HR 4173 (Financial Regulation); Dodd Financial Regulation Discussion Draft; S. 3217 Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010; HR 3763/S. 3416 - FTC Red Flags Rules
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
HR 4169 (Built in gains tax); S. 506/HR 1256 (international tax provisions/economic substance/patents); S 144/HR 690 (Mobile Cell Phone Act); HR 436 (carry-over basis estate tax reform); HR 2110 (Mobile workforce state income tax); IRC Section 67(e) (deductability of trust administration expenses); Section 7216 (confidentiality); Section 6694 (preparer penalty); preparer regulation; alternative minimum tax; tax retrun due dates; HR 3200 (economic substance; more likely than not standard); Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; S 437 (Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for AGI); Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign bank and financial accounts; allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty if the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; modification of information reporting requirements under tax law; HR 4213 (American Workers, State & Business Relief Act of 2010); Electronic filing of tax returns; Uncertain tax positions; Certainty with estate and gift taxes
S 664 (financial markets reform); HR 4173 (Financial Regulation); HR 3763 (FTC Red Flags Rule); Dodd Financial Regulation Discussion Draft; Senate Restoring Financial Stability Act of 2010
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
S 506/HR 1256 (international tax provisions/economic substance/patents); S 144/HR 690 (Mobile Cell Phone Act); HR 436 (carry-over basis estate tax reform); HR 2110 (Mobile workforce state income tax); IRC Section 67(e) (deductability of trust administration expenses); Section 7216 (confidentiality); Section 6694 (preparer penalty); preparer regulation; alternative minimum tax; tax return due deates; HR 3200 (economic substance, more likely than not standard); Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Simplify the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; S.437 (Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for AGI); Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign bank and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty if the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiiaries of electing small business trusts; modification of information reporting requirements under tax law
HR 2989 (Defined benefit pension funding); HR 3936 (Defined benefit pension funding)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
S. 506/H.R. 1256 (international tax provisions/economic substance/patents); S. 144/H.R. 690 (Mobile Cell Phone Act); H.R. 436 (carry-over basis estate tax reform); H.R. 2110 (mobile workforce state income tax); IRC Section 67(e) (deductability of trust administration expenses); Section 7216 (confidentiality); Section 6694 (preparer penalty); preparer regulation; alternative minimum tax; tax return due dates; H.R. 3200 (economic substance, more likely than not standard); Repeal full vesting on partial termination of qualified retirement plans; Harmonize and simplify education incentives; Simply the Kiddie Tax; Standardize the allowable mileage rates for business expense, medical expense, and charitable contribution purposes; Allow certain attorney fees and court costs as deductions for AGI; Revise the due date of the reporting requirements for foreign bank and financial accounts; Allow for abatement of a Section 6707A penalty if the taxpayer acts reasonably and in good faith; Repeal the Section 7122(c)(1) requirement to provide a 20 percent partial payment with a lump-sum offer in compromise; Amend Section 118 to apply to partnerships; Allow spouses (and divorced spouses) to transfer partnership suspended losses to one another; Allow S Corporations to have nonresident aliens as shareholders and potential current beneficiaries of electing small business trusts; modification of information reporting requirements under tax law
H.R. 2989 (defined benefit pension funding)
Filing targets: Federal Trade Commission (FTC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
S. 506/H.R.1265 (international tax provisions/economic substance/patents), S. 144/H.R. 690 (Mobile Cell Phone Act), H.R. 436 (carry-over basis estate tax reform), tax strategy patents, H.R. 2584, H.R. 2110 (mobile workforce state income tax), IRC Section 67(e) (deductibility of trust administration expenses), Section 7216 (confidentiality), Section 6694 (prepareer penalty), preparer regulation, alternative minimum tax, tax return due dates
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of
H.R. 607 (fair value accounting), H.R. 1212 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), H.R. 1349 (Federal Accounting Oversight Board), H.R. 1406 (mark-to-market accounting), H.R. 1797 (Sarbanes- Oxley Act), financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
HR 1908 (Patent Reform), HR 2136 (Tax Strategy Patents), HR 2365 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 681 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 1145 (Patent Reform), S 2369 (Tax Patents)
HR 1752 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 1852 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), S 2338 (FHA Modernization Act), Audit issues of interest to the AICPA's Governmental Audit Quality Center, S. 2325 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), H.R. 6254 (Temporary Participation of FHA Mortgage Brokers/Lenders), HUD Proposal to Establish an Independent Public Accountant Roster HR 1452 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 6790 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 3221 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 6790 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers)
HR 46 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 270 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 2818 (Small Business Health Plans), S. 2795 (Small Business Health Purchasing Pool), H.R. 5918 (Small Business Health Options)
HR 1429 (Audit Partner Rotation), HR 1630 (Rotation), S 556 (Audit Partner Rotation)
HR 6124 (Farm Credit System Loans), HR 2419 (Farm Credit System Loans), S 2302 (Farm Credit System Loans)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), SENATE
HR 6124 (Farm Credit System Loans), HR 2419 (Farm Credit System Loans), S 2302 (Farm Credit System Loans)
HR 1360 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), HR 1591 (Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2206 (Tax Preparer Standards, Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2345 (Economic Substance), S 785 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), S 832 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1321 (Confidentiality and Penalty Provisions), HR 3359 (Mobile Workforce State Income Tax and Simplification Act), HR 4318 (Restore Tax Preparer Standard at "Substantial Authority"), S 2242 (Economic Substance) HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3997 (Expatriation), HR 2419 (Economic Substance), HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3056 (Expatriation Tax), HR 3396 (Expatriation Tax), S 2345 (Expatriation Tax), HR 3170 (Estate Tax), HR 3475 (Estate Tax), HR 4172 (Estate Tax), HR 4235 (Estate Tax), HR 4242 (Estate Tax), H.R. 6049 (Tax Preparer Penalties), S. 2851 (Tax Preparer Penalties), H.R. 5719 (Tax Preparer Penalties and Listed Property - Communication Devices), S. 2668 (Listed Property - Communication Devices), H.R. 5450 (Listed Property - Communication Devices), H.R. 6081 (Tax Expatriation), S. 1219 (Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2007), H.R. 5716 (Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2008), S. 3335 (Extenders; Tax Preparer Penalties), HR 1424 (Tax Prepare Penalties), Estate & Trust Administrative Costs (Knight v. CIR)
HR 1429 (Audit Partner Rotation), HR 1630 (Rotation), S 556 (Audit Partner Rotation)
HR 46 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 270 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 2818 (Small Business Health Plans), S. 2795 (Small Business Health Purchasing Pool), H.R. 5918 (Small Business Health Options)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), SENATE
HR 1752 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 1852 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), S 2338 (FHA Modernization Act), Audit issues of interest to the AICPA's Governmental Audit Quality Center, S. 2325 (Financial Statement Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), H.R. 6254 (Temporary Participation of FHA Mortgage Brokers/Lenders), HUD Proposal to Establish an Independent Public Accountant Roster
HR 1908 (Patent Reform), HR 2136 (Tax Strategy Patents), HR 2365 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 681 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 1145 (Patent Reform), S 2369 (Tax Patents)
HR 1360 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), HR 1591 (Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2206 (Tax Preparer Standards, Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2345 (Economic Substance), S 785 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), S 832 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1321 (Confidentiality and Penalty Provisions), HR 3359 (Mobile Workforce State Income Tax and Simplification Act), HR 4318 (Restore Tax Preparer Standard at "Substantial Authority"), S 2242 (Economic Substance) HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3997 (Expatriation), HR 2419 (Economic Substance), HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3056 (Expatriation Tax), HR 3396 (Expatriation Tax), S 2345 (Expatriation Tax), HR 5716 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1219 (Regulation of Preparers), HR 3170 (Estate Tax), HR 3475 (Estate Tax), HR 4172 (Estate Tax), HR 4235 (Estate Tax), HR 4242 (Estate Tax), H.R. 6049 (Tax Preparer Penalties), S. 2851 (Tax Preparer Penalties), H.R. 5719 (Tax Preparer Penalties and Listed Property - Communication Devices), S. 2668 (Listed Property - Communication Devices), H.R. 5450 (Listed Property - Communication Devices), H.R. 6081 (Tax Expatriation), S. 1219 (Taxpayer Protection and Assitance Act of 2007), H.R. 5716 (Taxpayer Bill of Rights Act of 2008)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Housing & Urban Development, Dept of (HUD), SENATE
HR 1360 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), HR 1591 (Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2206 (Tax Preparer Standards, Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2345 (Economic Substance), S 785 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), S 832 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1321 (Confidentiality and Penalty Provisions), HR 3359 (Mobile Workforce State Income Tax and Simplification Act), HR 4318 (Restore Tax Preparer Standard at "Substantial Authority"), S 2242 (Economic Substance) HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3997 (Expatriation), HR 2419 (Economic Substance), HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3056 (Expatriation Tax), HR 3396 (Expatriation Tax), S 2345 (Expatriation Tax), HR 5716 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1219 (Regulation of Preparers), HR 3170 (Estate Tax), HR 3475 (Estate Tax), HR 4172 (Estate Tax), HR 4235 (Estate Tax), HR 4242 (Estate Tax)
HR 1908 (Patent Reform), HR 2136 (Tax Strategy Patents), HR 2365 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 681 (Tax Strategy Patents), S 1145 (Patent Reform), S 2369 (Tax Patents)
HR 2419 (Farm Credit System Loans), S 2302 (Farm Credit System Loans)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
HR 1360 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), HR 1591 (Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2206 (Tax Preparer Standards, Non-resident Alien Provision), HR 2345 (Economic Substance), S 785 (Non-resident Telecommuter Taxation), S 832 (Regulation of Preparers), S 1321 (Confidentiality and Penalty Provisions), HR 3359 (Mobile Workforce State Income Tax and Simplification Act), HR 4318 (Restore Tax Preparer Standard at "Substantial Authority"), S 2242 (Economic Substance) HR 3970 (Economic Substance), HR 3997 (Expatriation)
HR 46 (Small Business Tax Flexibility), S 270 (Small Business Tax Flexibility)
HR 1429 (Audit Partner Rotation), HR 1630 (Rotation), S 556 (Audit Partner Rotation)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
HR 1908 (Patent Reform), HR 2136 (Tax Patents), HR 2365 (Tax Patents), S 681 (Tax Patents), S 1145 (Patent Reform), S 2369 (Tax Patents)
HR 1049 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 1508 (Sarbanes Oxley Act). HR 1550 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 1780 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 1869 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 2727 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), S 869 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), S 1405 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 2829 (SEC Funding Bill)
HR 1752 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), HR 1852 (Financial Statements Audits for FHA Lenders/Mortgage Brokers), S 2338 (FHA Modernization Act)
HR 1429 (Audit Partner Rotation), HR 1630 (Rotation), S 556 (Audit Partner Rotation)
HR 2419 (Farm Credit System Loans), S 2302 (Farm Credit System Loans)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
HR 46 (small business tax flexibility), S 270 (small business tax flexibility)
HR 1049 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 1508 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 1550 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 1780 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 1869 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), HR 2727 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), S 869 (Sarbanes Oxley Act), S 1405 (Sarbanes Oxley Act)
HR 1429 (audit partner rotation), HR 1630 (rotation), S 556 (audit partner rotation)
HR 1752 (financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers), HR 1852 (financial statement audits for FHA lenders/mortgage brokers)
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
HR 196, HR 339, HR 809, HR 1234, HR 1500, HR 1684, HR 2121, HR 4006, HR 4297, S 7, S 8, S 758, S 849, S 1624, S 1565, S 1568, S 1568, S 1685, S 1780, S 1789, HR 4520, HR 5638, S 832, S 2462, S 2688, HR 1932, S 2020, HR 4019, HR 6167
HR 4019
HR 525, HR 2203, S 406, S 1955
HR 2123, S 1107
Outreach to the SEC and PCAOB related to Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley and other investor protections
HR 525, HR 2203, S 406, S 1955
HR 4019
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
HR 196, HR 339, HR 809, HR 1234, HR 1500, HR 1684, HR 2121, HR 4006, HR 4297, S 7, S 78, S 758, S 849, S 1624, S 1565, S 1568, S 1685, S 1780, S 1789, S 1932, S 2020
HR 2123, S 1107
HR 4019
HR 525, HR 2203, S 406
Filing targets: Government Accountability Office (GAO), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE
HR 1508, HR 525, HR 2831, HR 2830, S 219
HR 2123, S 1107
Filing targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, Treasury, Dept of