AICPA

FASB

FASB Issues Accounting Standards Update 2017-04—Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment  [01/26/17]

GAO

IASB

30 Jan 2017: IFRS Foundation Trustees to meet in Paris

IRS 

Reminder: Employers Must File Forms W-2 by Jan. 31 This Year
IR-2017-13, Jan. 30, 2017 -- The Internal Revenue Service today reminds employers that the due date for filing Forms W-2, the Wage and Tax Statement for their employees for calendar year 2016, is now Jan, 31, 2017

EITC Awareness Day: Workers May Qualify for Significant Tax Benefit
IR-2017-12, Jan. 27, 2017 — The IRS today joined partners across the country in promoting the Earned Income Tax Credit on EITC Awareness Day, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017.

IRS Encourages Tribal Communities to Check Out the Earned Income Tax Credit
IR-2017-11, Jan 26, 2017 — The IRS urges Native American taxpayers to look into the EITC and correctly claim it if they qualify.

IRS, States and Tax Industry Renew Alert about Form W-2 Scam Targeting Payroll, Human Resource Departments
IR-2017-10, Jan. 25, 2017 — The IRS, state tax agencies and the tax industry today renewed their warning about an email scam that uses a corporate officer’s name to request employee Forms W-2 from company payroll or human resources departments.

Working Grandparents May Be Eligible for EITC
IR-2017-09, Jan. 25, 2017 — The IRS wants working grandparents raising grandchildren to be aware of the EITC and correctly claim it if they qualify.     

NYC Dept. of Finance 

January 25, 2017
Posted Finance Memoranda regarding Application of IRC §280F Limits to Sport Utility Vehicles.

NYS Comptroller’s Office

DiNapoli: Municipalities Facing Slow Growth in Sales Tax Collections, January 30, 2017

State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases State Audits, January 30, 2017

DiNapoli Announces State Contract and Payment Actions For December 2016, January 26, 2017

DiNapoli: 59 School Districts in Fiscal Stress, January 25, 2017

NYS Dept. of Taxation and Finance

Finger Lakes Residents Eligible for Billions in Earned Income Tax Credits

SEC

SEC Uncovers Cherry-Picking Scheme, Charges Investment Adviser Behind It
Washington D.C., Jan. 25, 2017 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that a Massachusetts-based investment adviser agreed to be banned from the securities industry after the agency uncovered an illegal cherry-picking scheme through its data analysis used to detect suspicious trading patterns.

Brokerage Firm Charged With Gatekeeper Failures Related to Pump-and-Dump Scheme
Washington D.C., Jan. 25, 2017 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced administrative proceedings against New York-based brokerage firm Windsor Street Capital and its former anti-money laundering officer John D. Telfer.  The SEC’s Enforcement Division alleges that the firm, formerly named Meyers Associates L.P., failed to file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for $24.8 million in suspicious transactions, including those occurring in accounts controlled by microcap stock financiers Raymond H. Barton and William G. Goode who are separately charged today by the SEC with conducting a pump-and-dump scheme. 

SEC Charges Two Former Och-Ziff Executives With FCPA Violations
Washington D.C., Jan. 26, 2017 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two former executives at Och-Ziff Capital Management Group with being the driving forces behind a far-reaching bribery scheme that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Citigroup Paying $18 Million for Overbilling Clients
Washington D.C., Jan. 26, 2017 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Citigroup Global Markets has agreed to pay $18.3 million to settle charges that it overbilled investment advisory clients and misplaced client contracts.

Chief Operating Officer Jeffery Heslop to Leave SEC
Washington D.C., Jan. 27, 2017 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced SEC Chief Operating Officer Jeffery Heslop will leave the agency in February.

SEC Announces Charges in Hamilton Ticket Resale Ponzi Scheme
Washington D.C., Jan. 27, 2017 —The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against two New York City men accused of running a Ponzi scheme with money raised from investors to fund businesses purportedly created to purchase and resell tickets to such high-demand shows as Adele concerts and the Broadway musical Hamilton.