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Regulation S-K and Regulation S-X, which govern public company disclosure, should be revised to reduce compliance costs by better scaling disclosure requirements and eliminating requirements that do little or nothing to protect investors.

Bernard van Gerrevink and Hilde Atsma of KPMG Meijburg & Co and Jenny Wong of KPMG Australia explain why tax transparency is set to become an integral part of ESG disclosures.

Serious questions emerge about the utility of current financial disclosures and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) role in reforming existing and proposing new disclosure rules.

There are few people who can navigate the maze of the U.S. tax code, while an ever-shrinking number of Americans are paying ever-higher taxes to carry more and more of their fellow citizens who pay no income taxes at all. The unmanageability and increasing imbalance of the U.S. tax code is the near-continuous subject of calls for reform. Some reforms have had good effects, as was the case in 1986; other efforts at reform go nowhere. A new bipartisan tax reform bill introduced by Senators Ron Wyd...

Cuellar, who has the worst environmental voting record of any Democrat in Congress, faces a competitive primary challenge from Green New Deal backer Jessica Cisneros.

  The Fiscal Timeline of CRFB's Fiscal Roadmap Project keeps track of key economic, financial and policy developments affecting the nation's fiscal future. 2011 March

Here are the most important takeaways from the University of California Board of Regents’ first meeting of 2022. Chancellor’s Pay Raises The University of California Board of Regents approved pay raises for all nine UC chancellors with undergraduate student bodies on Jan. 20, with one no vote, one abstention and 16 approvals. UC Santa Barbara […]

Representative Dan Crenshaws comments led to a back-and-forth between the two Republican lawmakers.

Green bonds are flooding to market — and financing infrastructure — around the world. When will U.S. municipal bond investors get the info they need to join the rush, and what will they pay for the privilege?

Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) on Thursday pushed for mandatory corporate reporting of environmental, social and governance information as investor demand soars.