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The amount of capital that Citigroup holds for purposes of meeting regulatory requirements may not be as sizable as it is reported to be, according to an analysis of the troubled bank’s accounting...
 
In the most direct evidence yet tying UBS Chairman Peter Kurer to oversight failures at the Swiss bank, the U.S. Justice Department last month criticized as inadequate an internal investigation that...
 
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The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a number of foreign banks’ compliance with the so-called Qualified Intermediary program, which was adopted in 2000 to help the agency track U.S....
 
The United States sued UBS AG today in an effort to get the Swiss bank to turn over the names of as many as 52,000 wealthy Americans who allegedly tried to evade taxes on $14.8 billion in secret...
 
Companies at risk of default on their debt can expect help from Congress via changes to federal bankruptcy law, a leading high-yield bond analyst predicted....
 
There’s good news and bad for corporate tax departments in the stimulus package likely to be passed by Congress by Friday....
 
Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group revealed in a regulatory filing on Thursday that because of credit ratings downgrades it no longer has access to the Federal Reserve’s Commercial Paper...
 
Though tax breaks for business rank high on many to-do lists in Congress these days as the economic stimulus package makes its way through the legislative mill, corporate tax executives aren’t...
 
A trade group representing finance executives and treasurers wants Congress to cut the tax rate multinational corporations pay when they tap cash held by foreign subsidiaries....
 
With revenues plunging, scores of capital-intensive companies have announced plans to rein in capital spending. While such cuts sound prudent giving the current economic downturn, the urge to curb...
 
 
Repatriate games? Legislation would cut rates on earnings brought back from overseas units....
 
Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner said he might try to extend to all U.S. companies a restriction that prohibits bailout banks from taking a tax deduction of more than $500,000 in pay for...
 
Companies won a significant victory over the Internal Revenue Service in a federal appeals court in Boston yesterday, attorneys say. But they cautioned that their victory is far from complete....
 
Online retailers and state governments have been sparring for more than a decade about just how much responsibility e-commerce companies should bear when it comes to collecting taxes on their sales....
 
 
Audits slam security of Internal Revenue's online filing system, other computer systems. Is it e-File or e-Filch?...
 
(Reuters)—Swiss bank UBS is likely to seek a swift deal with U.S. authorities to end a damaging tax probe, analysts said on Wednesday, a day after its ex-...
 
(Reuters)—Shares of General Electric fell more than 6% on Tuesday, after a stock analyst said the U.S. conglomerate’s profit could rely more heavily on...
 
A report released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that corporations may face tax increases as well as reductions as a result of President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package....
 

 
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