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New Sustainability Reporting Guidelines Focus on Material Issues

by Avery FellowThe Global Reporting Initiative, the organization that develops the most widely used sustainability reporting framework in the world, released an updated version of the guidelines May 22.The G4 guidelines provide an outline for organizations ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 5 hours ago]

Entities: guidelines, Sustainability, Organism, Greenhouse Gas

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Weekly Round-Up: SST Board Begins Laying Groundwork to Implement Online Sales Tax Legislation

While Congress considers the online sales tax provisions of the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 743), the leading proponent of the idea is already at work addressing implementation for states in the event of passage.At its spring meeting held May 15-16, ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 7 hours ago]

Entities: best practice, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Scott Peterson

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LinkedIn Corp

Sales Tax Slice: State Tax Pros Voice Concerns Over U.S. Online Sales Tax Legislation

by Rebecca HelmesThe Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 743) cleared a significant legislative hurdle when the Senate approved it a few weeks ago, but its prospects for passage remain uncertain now that it is pending in the House.$ We polled members of the ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Duane Morris LLP, Jack Cronin, LinkedIn Corp, Marketplace, United States

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Bloomberg BNA Publishes 2013 Edition of the “Social Security and Medicare Fact Sheet”

Bloomberg BNA has published the 2013 Edition of the Social Security and Medicare Fact Sheet, the easy-to-use resource designed to be disseminated company-wide by human resources and benefits practitioners to inform employees of changes to their Social ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Medicare, Social Security, Disability Benefits, Retirement Benefits

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

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House Passes Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Bill; Administration to Release Public Comments

$ The House passed a bill May 22 approving the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline, while the State Department said it plans to place online hundreds of thousands of comments on its draft supplemental environmental review for the project.The House bill passed ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Keystone XL Pipeline, Oil Pipeline, Environment, TransCanada Corp

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Work in One State While Licensed in Another Qualifies as Practice for Admission by Motion

A New Jersey-licensed lawyer's work as a contract attorney in New York before he was admitted to the New York bar counts as part of the five-year practice requirement for admission on motion in Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Admission, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Bar Examination

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Lawyers Are Fully Immune From Fraud Claims Based on Conduct During Judicial Proceeding

$ Attorneys are absolutely immune from liability to a client's opponent for fraud or intentional infliction of emotional distress claims based on their conduct during judicial proceedings, a divided Connecticut Supreme Court held May 21 (Simms v. Sea ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Fraud, Litigation, Immunity, courts

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Lawyer’s Inside Info About Ex-Client Precludes Hefty Investment in Competitor

$ A lawyer's inside knowledge of a former corporate client's business secrets precludes the lawyer from making a substantial investment in a startup that will compete with the ex-client, the Texas bar's ethics committee advised in April (Texas State Bar ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Startup, Joint Publication, Business Plan, Competent

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

Long-Awaited Draft FATCA Form Seen as More Complicated

from Daily Tax ReportThe eagerly awaited draft version of a form to be used by entities to report their withholding status under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is more complicated than earlier versions but still has positive elements, practitioners ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Compliance

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Is It Really the Least Understood Law in the U.S. or Just in Technology?

AgendaThe Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is the primary federal law governing computer use. Hardly a day passes without a news report that hackers have stolen credit card information or trade secrets from a Fortune 500 company. No sector is immune. ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Computer Fraud, Abuse, Intellectual Property

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

House Lawmakers Ask Colleagues to Tell CMS to Delay DME Competitive Bidding

Two House lawmakers called on colleagues to join in asking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to delay implementation of Medicare's durable medical equipment (DME) competitive bidding program.In a letter sent May 17, Reps. Bruce L. Braley (D-Iowa) ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - May 23 2013]

Entities: Van Miller, Medicare, Medical Equipment, Glenn Thompson, Coinsurance

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Incentives Watch: Coastal States’ Pearls of Wisdom – Take Advantage of Our Oyster Tax Credits

by Kathleen CaggianoIt’s that time of year again when the weather gets warmer and people crave fresh seafood, including oysters. After eating some oysters, why not recycle their shells? If you do, you can get a tax credit in North Carolina and, now, ... [Published Bureau of National Affairs - May 22 2013]

Entities: Tax Credits, Incentives, Barrage Fire, Recycling

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Steve Rylance, a spokesman for GRI, told BNA May 23 that G4 increases the focus on material topics. "[W]hile in G3 the materiality focus was present, in G4 it underpins the whole of the guidelines to the extent that it promotes a new way of thinking about sustainability reporting" Rylance said in an email statement

New Sustainability Reporting Guidelines Focus on Material Issues [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 5 hours ago]

Two questions they most frequently encounter, the representatives told the SSTGB, are "How much will it cost to sign up for central registration?" and "When can they join?"

Weekly Round-Up: SST Board Begins Laying Groundwork to Implement Online Sales Tax Legislation [Published Bureau of National Affairs - 7 hours ago]

The Competitive Enterprise Institute will hold a briefing May 20 in Washington D C , on "EPA's FOIA Scandals: 'Richard Windsor Gina McCarthy, and the Abuse of Power."$ According to CEI, the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to reply to its Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information on the Obama administration's climate change agenda. Agency$ detractors allege former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used an alias—Richard Windsor—in emails to conduct official business. McCarthy's nomination to$ head EPA is awaiting a vote by the full Senate."

The Week Ahead: Keystone Headed to House Floor; Hydropower, Natural Gas on Senate Agenda [Published Bureau of National Affairs - May 18 2013]

"Basically, you have an organization that at times looks like one big entity and then sometimes, looks like multiple entities" said Joy C Spies, IRS Senior Technician Reviewer in the Passthroughs & Special Industries Division and chief author of the proposed regulations...

Weekly Round-Up: A Closer Look at How States Will Treat Series LLC Employment Taxes [Published Bureau of National Affairs - May 17 2013]

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