Federal Regulation
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IRS Answers 88 Questions About HSAs
By Allison BellEmployers can offer employee assistance programs and disease-management programs along with health savings account programs.[@@]Shoshanna Tanner, an official at the Internal Revenue Service, and ...
July 15, 2004
Feds Propose Affiliate Marketing RulesFederal regulators have proposed long-awaited affiliate marketing regulations.[@@]The proposed regulations would help implement the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 2003, which requires banks, thrifts ...
July 15, 2004
Congress Gets A Taste Of The Industrys Huge Divide On Federal RegulationCongress Gets A Taste Of The IndustrysHuge Divide On Federal RegulationWashingtonAs the Senate Banking Committee expressed new interest in the competitiveness and regulation of the ...
July 15, 2004
A Critical Review Of Triple-X Can Offer A Solution To Greater Credit RiskA Critical Review Of Triple-X Can OfferA Solution To Greater Credit RiskWe believe that a more critical review of Guideline Triple-X and the reserves it ...
July 13, 2004
IRS Ruling Affects Nonresident Alien Annuity IncomeThe Internal Revenue Service has published a ruling that could increase income taxes for some noncitizens who buy life insurance policies and annuities from ...
July 08, 2004
Key Pension Rate Falls SlightlyA new federal law is continuing to protect pension plan sponsors from low 30-year Treasury bond rates.[@@]The composite corporate bond rate that sponsors now ...
July 08, 2004
IRS Sets Structured Settlement Sales Tax RulesThe Internal Revenue Service has published a final version of regulations that discourage the sale of structured settlement annuities.[@@]The regulations impose a 40% excise ...
July 07, 2004
SEC Eases Life Broker-Dealer Control RuleLimited-service broker-dealers affiliated with life insurers will not have to maintain inspection reports relating to the safeguarding of customer funds.[@@]The U.S. Securities and Exchange ...