Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey sought to dispel fears that a digital version of the pound will turn into a surveillance tool for UK authorities after its proposals were attacked by conspiracy theorists online and on motorway bridges.

BlackRock Inc. and Valkyrie refiled their application for an exchange-traded fund that invests directly in Bitcoin, shoring up their filings after the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated the recent wave of requests seeking to launch such a product were insufficient.

Leaps in AI technology are raising questions about fair lending, fraud detection, and cybersecurity at banks, but federal banking regulators already have tools in place to deal with those issues, industry watchers say.

Lawmakers return this week, aiming to make progress on key authorizations and appropriations ahead of August recess and looming deadlines this fall.

An SEC enforcement initiative targeting misleading ESG disclosures has become a business risk for dozen of public companies, including bankrupt Bitcoin miner Core Scientific, shale oil producer Pioneer Natural Resources and banking giant Ally.

Crypto enthusiasts are hopeful that a once-in-four-years event which rewrites the underlying code of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency will extend the current market rally. But the milestone also risks sounding the death knell for certain Bitcoin miners.

The Wagner Law Group’s Michael Schloss, who spent more than 30 years at DOL enforcing ERISA, reflects on retirement policies that except ERISA’s primary fiduciary requirements for tax-subsidized plan assets while promoting employee stock ownership as well as environmental and social goals, and barring investments in firms tied to U.S. adversaries.

Brazilian miners will seek to exclude in the Senate an article in the country’s tax-reform proposal allowing states to create a tax on primary and semi-manufactured products for investment in infrastructure and housing works, Rinaldo Mancini, director of the Brazilian mining institute Ibram, said in an interview.

Kaitlyn L. Mariano has been promoted to senior tax manager at Dannible & McKee in Syracuse, N.Y., and Samuel T. Walsh has been promoted to tax senior, the firm said Monday.

Belgium’s taxing authority sufficiently alleged fraud against the defendants and the court did have jurisdiction to hear the claim, a district court held, dismissing the defendants’ motions to dismiss for ...

Individual taxpayer cannot reopen discovery to obtain information about the audit or auditor related to a tax debt that was reduced to a judgment in 2012, a district court held, ...

Many of the lucrative clean energy tax credits from President Joe Biden’s tax-and-climate law hinge on labor requirements that still lack any regulations.

Amendments to the Australian state of Queensland’s payroll tax act that took effect July 1 extend the reduced tax rate for regional employers and implement provisions related to the deduction for the 2022-23 financial year.

Employers are urging the Biden administration to temporarily extend pandemic-era remote employment verification options until the completion of a new regulation that would them permanent.

Question: Recently there were changes made to family and medical leave under the California Family Rights Act. How does family and medical leave in California compare with the federal Family and Medical Leave Act?

Bills that didn’t make it over the finish line in state houses across the US could preview workplace laws legislators prioritize next year. Meanwhile, a recent Supreme Court decision could inform a lower court’s ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

State legislators across party lines have increasingly sought to promote paid family and medical leave bills, even as differences of opinion remain substantial about whether to pursue mandatory, voluntary, or state-employee-focused policies.

A New York state judge issued a temporary halt to a new city law scheduled to go into effect this week, which requires minimum wage payments for app-based food delivery workers.

The Wagner Law Group’s Michael Schloss, who spent more than 30 years at DOL enforcing ERISA, reflects on retirement policies that except ERISA’s primary fiduciary requirements for tax-subsidized plan assets while promoting employee stock ownership as well as environmental and social goals, and barring investments in firms tied to U.S. adversaries.

Kaitlyn L. Mariano has been promoted to senior tax manager at Dannible & McKee in Syracuse, N.Y., and Samuel T. Walsh has been promoted to tax senior, the firm said Monday.

Greg Nelson has joined Gibson Dunn as a senior counsel with the tax practice group, the firm said Monday.

Adopting a carbon border adjustment mechanism would help US manufacturers avoid potential EU carbon tariffs and encourage production of low-carbon alternatives, says Project Canary’s Chris Romer.

The high court victory of a woman who declined to create a website promoting gay marriage affirmed the long-held tenet that the US government can’t force you to say things you don’t believe, say Kristen Waggoner, president of Alliance Defending Freedom, and Nadine Strossen, past president of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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