The CARES Act included sweeping measures designed to incentivize companies — particularly small businesses — not to lay off workers. While the Paycheck Protection Program gets most of the attention, the Employee Retention Credit also provides employers with a generous tax credit for retaining workers. Why didn’t companies try to
The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board released four proposals Thursday for improving various aspects of government accounting around the world. The exposure draft documents deal with changes in the measurement of assets and liabilities in financial statements; measurement; property, plant and equipment; and non-current assets held for sale and
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden proposed ending existing tax breaks for fossil fuels and creating new incentives for low-and-no carbon energy sources that he said would prune the existing “hodgepodge” of energy tax benefits. Wyden’s plan, which he introduced Wednesday, would offer an alternative approach to President Joe Biden’s
A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday to give small businesses owned by women and people of color greater access to capital through tax incentives. Senate Finance Committee chair Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, joined with Senate Small Business Committee chair Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, and Catherine
Representative Josh Gottheimer said a repeal of the $10,000 cap on state and local tax, or SALT, deductions could be offset by cracking down on tax cheats, the first proposal from Democrats as a way to pay for revival of a valuable tax break. The New Jersey Democrat said Monday
The Internal Revenue Service is suspending a requirement for taxpayers who received too much on their advance payments for the Premium Tax Credit last year to repay the excess amount. The IRS announced last week that taxpayers who received excess advance payments in 2020 on the tax credit for health
Dixon Hughes Goodman is asking the IRS for tax payment relief for businesses that are eligible for 2020 employee retention credits for which the tax refunds haven’t yet been received. Taxpayers who claim the ERC are required to reduce their otherwise deductible qualified wages by the amount of ERC credit
Online career resource Vault.com released its 2022 Accounting 50 list, an annual ranking of the best accounting firms to work for based on accounting professionals’ feedback, with Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers topping the list. Rankings were based on feedback from some 11,400 accounting professionals, who were asked to rate the
Mandatory retirement policies at U.S. auditing firms are pushing out experienced partners who are bringing in substantial revenue and audit quality as good as that of younger partners. A new research study, based on age data for 3,148 U.S. public company audit partners, examines the impact of mandatory retirement ages
Top 100 firm Grant Thornton has released a proprietary app for automated controls testing, targeted at auditors. Cta.x is designed to help audit firms quickly develop and deploy automated internal controls tests to help them comply with regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley. The app is also built to help companies glean insights