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  • With Some ESG Reporting Set to Become Mandatory in 2025, CPAs Could Have More Audit Opportunities

    By:
    Ruth Singleton
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    Sep 4, 2024
    Participants at a recent symposium on environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, hosted by the AICPA and its subsidiary, CPA.com, discussed how mandatory reporting requirements for Scope 3 greenhouse emissions—set to go into effect in two jurisdictions in 2025—could create audit opportunities for firms of all sizes. 

  • Full Application Period Now Open for Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Tax Credit; Due Date Is Oct. 18

    By:
    Ruth Singleton
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    Sep 3, 2024
    On Aug. 29, the Treasury Department, IRS and Department of Energy (DOE) announced that they had received more than 800 project proposals seeking, in total, almost $40 billion in tax credits for Round 2 of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Tax Credit (48C) Program. Those proposals represent $200 billion in total project investments.

  • Regulatory Roundup: August 27-September 3

    By:
    Ruth Singleton
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    Sep 3, 2024
    With so many regulators out there, it can be tough to keep track of all the decisions being made. This is the NYSSCPA's regular series that collects relevant regulatory announcements from the past week and puts them in one place to help you stay on top of the issues.

  • FinCEN Issues Final Rules Requiring Reporting of Some Cash Real Estate Sales

    By:
    Ruth Singleton
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    Sep 3, 2024
    Last week, the Department of the Treasury’s  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule under the Bank Secrecy Act meant to deter criminals from laundering money by paying cash for residential real estate. The rule, which will become effective on Dec. 1, 2025, will require real estate professionals to submit reports about cash sales of residential real estate sold to legal entities, trusts and shell companies.

  • TIGTA: Number of Federal Tax Lien Notices Continues to Fall

    By:
    NYSSCPA Staff
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    Aug 29, 2024
    The number of notices of federal tax lien (NFTLs) filed by the IRS has declined by 67 percent since 2019, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) disclosed in a report about the IRS's compliance with NFTL collection due process procedures.

  • IRS Reminds Employers: Educational Assistance Programs Can Go Toward Workers’ Student Loans Through 2025

    By:
    NYSSCPA Staff
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    Aug 29, 2024
    The IRS reminded employers that their educational assistance programs can also used to help pay for their employees’ student loan obligations through Dec. 31, 2025.

  • IRS Urges Taxpayers to Do an End-of-Summer Tax Checkup

    By:
    NYSSCPA Staff
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    Aug 28, 2024
    To help taxpayers avoid a surprise at tax time next year, the IRS encouraged them to make tax withholding or payment updates now.

  • SEC Charges Navy Shipbuilder with Accounting Fraud

    By:
    Ruth Singleton
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    Aug 28, 2024
    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Austal USA, LLC, a Mobile, Ala.-based shipbuilder, and its Australia-based parent company, Austal Limited, with a fraudulent revenue recognition scheme. Both companies have agreed to settle the charges, including paying a $24 million civil penalty. 

  • IRS Filing Statistics by Income Reveal 0.22% Earned $1M or More

    By:
    NYSSCPA Staff
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    Aug 27, 2024
    The IRS released its late May 2024 filing statistics by adjusted gross income (AGI), summarizing the data from all individual income tax returns filed with the IRS by that date. The numbers broke out how they differed between income groups.

  • 2 Years into Inflation Reduction Act, IRS Lists Improvements the Act Enabled

    By:
    NYSSCPA Staff
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    Aug 26, 2024
    On the second anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the IRS enumerated the significant improvements that the legislation's funding enabled it to achieve.
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