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Edward Mendlowitz
April 13, 2020 1:31 PM

I’ve spoken to many owners of, and partners in, small firms and see an optimistic future.

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“The right thing for us to do is to continue our stress tests, but as part of them, to analyze how banks’ portfolios are responding to real, current events, not just to the hypothetical event that we announced earlier this year,” said Fed Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles.
April 13, 2020 10:52 AM

The agency's top supervisory official said the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review will proceed on schedule, and signaled that the Fed will look at how institutions are responding to fallout from the coronavirus.

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IRS Commissioner Charles "Chuck" Rettig
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Michael Cohn
April 12, 2020 2:30 PM

The Internal Revenue Service introduced an online tool on its website to help people who don’t normally file their taxes receive their stimulus payments sooner in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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April 9, 2020 2:49 PM

May is when budget talks usually get serious in California, which has a budget highly dependent on income and capital gains taxes.

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Andrew Coen
April 9, 2020 11:53 AM

New York’s new state budget provides flexibility to deal with near-term revenue hits from COVID-19, but it has little bandwidth to withstand a deep recession.

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Michael Cohn
April 8, 2020 4:44 PM

The Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to propose that private companies and nonprofits get an extra year to implement the lease accounting standard while also giving private franchisor companies an extra year for revenue recognition.

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April 8, 2020 2:46 PM

The deal to buy 200 million masks a month will help California's medical workers while pressuring its state budget.

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Joseph Otting, comptroller of the currency
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Brendan Pedersen
April 8, 2020 12:41 PM

Lenders and community groups say it's a mistake for the banking agencies to move forward during a national crisis. But Comptroller of the Currency Joseph Otting says updated Community Reinvestment Act rules would speed relief to neighborhoods and small businesses.

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Tax forms
Edward Mendlowitz
April 6, 2020 1:16 PM

Keeping in touch with clients is very important, especially during this period of isolation. Here is a way to provide updates to clients regarding their tax returns and to keep in touch generally.

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By Steven T. Dennis, Laura Davison and Mike Dorning
April 6, 2020 10:49 AM

This is normally the time of year when the federal government is collecting taxes due, but the devastating coronavirus now has the U.S. trying to rapidly dole out hundreds of billions of dollars in aid and tax breaks to businesses large and small.

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