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FASB ISSUES Accounting Standards Update 2025-02 LIABILITIES (Topic 405) Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122 - March 2025
Summary This Accounting Standards Update amends the GAAP Taxonomy (Codification of Standards) in accordance with SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122. The Section of the Codification that is amended is paragraph 405-10-S99-1 which relates to the topic Accounting for Obligations to Safeguard Crypto-Assets and Entity Holds for Its Platform Users. The entire paragraph is removed. The ASU, including replacement information, is available at ...
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The Cooperative Accountant Summer 2025
The Summer 2025 issue of The Cooperative Accountant (TCA) has been released! Focusing on cooperative-related issues, such as accounting and auditing, finance, cooperative management, legal and regulatory issues and taxation, this journal has become widely recognized as the industry standard. NSAC members, please log into Connect to view or download the latest issue.
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The User Fee for Letter Ruling Requests Is Increased Again
At the beginning of each year the IRS releases a revenue procedure detailing how to go about requesting a private letter ruling, closing agreement or determination letter. This year’s revenue procedure is Rev. Proc. 2025-1, 2025-01 IRB 1 (December 30, 2024). The annual revenue procedure has gradually expanded and now takes up 117 pages in the Internal Revenue Bulletin. For someone not familiar with the process of seeking private letter ...
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Proposed Regulations Update Guidance on Section 30C Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit
Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) Section 30C provides a credit for certain costs of qualified alternative fuel vehicle refueling property placed in service within low-income communities or non-urban census tracts. On September 19, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (“Service”) published a proposed rule to provide additional guidance for the credit. Section 30C was enacted as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and ...
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Section 163(j) and Patronage Dividends Patrons Receive from Credit Cooperatives
The U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provide taxpayers with an opportunity to suggest tax issues of general interest for which guidance would be helpful to taxpayers under a program called the Priority Guidance Plan. The National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC) sent a letter on May 30, 2024 recommending the issuance of guidance with respect to the treatment of patronage dividends received by a ...
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