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On 9 September 2016, the SEC filed a complaint against RPM International Inc. and its General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia...

In early February, the SEC announced that Ignacio Cueto Plaza, the CEO of South America-based LAN airlines, agreed to pay a $75,000 penalty to settle alleged FCPA violations related to illicit payments made to a third-party consultant.

When determining affiliate relationships under Regulation W, the Federal Reserve provides a critical bright-line rule: if a company consolidates another on its U.S. GAAP financial statements, it is presumed to have controlling influence. This presumption offers compliance officers a practical starting point for identifying control relationships, though other factors beyond GAAP consolidation can also establish regulatory control.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted information regarding agency audit and enforcement initiatives pertaining to Medicare Advantage (MA) and Prescription Drug Plan (PDP) organizations conducted since January of 2006.

When it comes to preventing corporate scandals, regulators typically look to the board as the first line of defense.

Life and health insurers in the U.S. should take note of a development from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) regarding their ability to reduce collateral requirements for ceded reinsurance under certain circumstances.

The end of the year is a busy time for software publishers and entities like the BSA and the SIIA to resolve an audit target's copyright infringement dispute by entering into settlement agreements.

In response to reports that some registrants use fraudulent specimens to prove continued use in commerce, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) proposed an update to its post-registration audit process.

It is time for covered entities and business associates to jump start HIPAA privacy and security programs and make sure that everything is in compliance.

An en banc decision of the Commonwealth Court held that a community center that provided free services for all its programs was not a purely public charity entitled to an exemption for real estate tax purposes.

Organizations that have not filed a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service for the past three years risk losing their tax exemption if they do not file the applicable Form 990 by Monday, May 17, 2010.

The IRS recently released two Revenue Procedures that provide a comprehensive update to the procedures for filing both automatic and non-automatic accounting method changes.

On March 13, 2018, the IRS announced a new Large Business and International Division ("LB&I") compliance campaign determined to impose tax adjustments on taxpayers who have deducted the costs associated with...

The SEC published new guidance to facilitate public disclosure of the accounting impacts of the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. According to the SEC, the new tax legislation could have a "significant impact on an entity's domestic and international tax consequences."

The methods taxpayers otherwise are required to use under §381 regulations might not be optimal or even permitted, however, such prohibitions on taxpayers create a burden for taxpayers and the IRS.

On January 9, 2007, Texas Comptroller Combs announced that she has transferred the administrative tax hearing process in Texas from the Comptroller’s Office to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH).