Tax Fraud Blotter: Diabolical dues

What a POS; bad bet; too sick to go to prison; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Original Article Posted at : https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/tax-fraud-blotter-diabolical-dues

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Increasing the Tax Burden on Capital Investment and Automation Hurts Workers

Over the past half decade, there has been an ongoing debate about how automation and the use of robots in the workplace has impacted workers’ wages and employment. Recently, economists Andrea Manera and Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Pascual Restrepo of Boston University examined whether tax policy favors certain forms…

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No, We Don’t Need a Federal Work-From-Home Tax

Multinational banks do clickbait too. That’s my analysis of one of the proposals from a recent Deutsche Bank publication titled What Must We Do to Rebuild?—a proposal sure to work up those who work from home. Because, among other short pieces with titles like “The delivery dilemma” and “The case for post-COVID rural investment,” there’s…

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Divided Congress may slow new tax legislation

Tax policy for the next two years, and therefore tax planning strategies, may be determined in Georgia early next year. Original Article Posted at : https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/divided-congress-may-slow-new-tax-legislation

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Andreas Barckow to succeed Hans Hoogervorst as next IASB chair

Andreas Barckow, an accounting professor and president of the Accounting Standards Committee of Germany, was appointed Thursday by the trustees of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation, as the next chair of the International Accounting Standards Board, succeeding longtime chairman Hans Hoogervorst, starting in July 2021. Original Article Posted at : https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/andreas-barckow-to-succeed-hans-hoogervorst-as-next-iasb-chair

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Comparing Europe’s Tax Systems: Property Taxes

Today’s map shows how European OECD countries rank on property taxes, continuing our series on the component rankings of our 2020 International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI). Although an important element when measuring the neutrality and competitiveness of a country’s tax code, property taxes account on average for less than 5 percent of total tax revenue…

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PCAOB adjusts plans for coronavirus

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has been making changes to its strategic plans and agenda in response to the pandemic as it sees auditors doing more work remotely. Original Article Posted at : https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/pcaob-adjusts-plans-for-coronavirus

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Ranking Individual Income Taxes on the 2021 State Business Tax Climate Index

This week’s map examines states’ rankings on the individual income tax component of the 2021 State Business Tax Climate Index. The individual income tax is important to businesses because states tax sole proprietorships, partnerships, and in most cases limited liability companies (LLCs) and S corporations under the individual income tax code. However, even traditional C corporations are…

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