#compliance
Navigate regulatory compliance and maintain audit-ready financial records
Since September 30, 2025, the Treasury has stopped issuing paper refund and vendor checks under Executive Order 14247. Here is how business refunds, IRS payments, and federal contract remittances work now.
Vermont Act 142 (H.648) takes effect July 1, 2027 — licenses for funders and brokers, factoring swept in, confessions of judgment voided, and an estimated APR on every offer. What borrowers and funders should do now.
No federal law requires time off to vote, but 29 states plus D.C. do — most of them paid, several with misdemeanor penalties. What small employers owe before the November 3, 2026 midterms.
Private employers cannot swap overtime pay for banked time off — Section 207(o) comp time is reserved for public agencies, and violations carry back wages plus equal liquidated damages over two years (three if willful). Here are the lawful alternatives.
Retailers selling by weight must use an NTEP-certified scale, register it with their weights-and-measures authority, and reinspect annually — New York charges $20 to $100 per scale and requires requests 60 days before expiration. Selling by gross weight instead of net weight is a misdemeanor in California, with fines up to $1,000 per illegal transaction.
The FTC's Green Guides require competent and reliable scientific evidence before an environmental claim runs — an unqualified "recyclable" needs facilities available to at least 60% of consumers, "biodegradable" needs complete breakdown within one year of customary disposal, and California's AB 1305 adds a public disclosure page for carbon-neutral claims at up to $2,500 per day per violation.
Germany's 2026 coalition reform package raises the basic tax-free allowance to €12,564 in 2027 and €12,900 in 2028, starts the 42% band at €70,601, adds a 47% rate above €280,000, and requires a doctor's certificate from the first day of sick leave — here is what each change means for a small employer's payroll desk, plus a dated checklist for January 1, 2027.
Karnataka's 2025 LWF amendment cut the coverage threshold from 50-plus to 10-or-more employees with immediate effect; covered employers deduct Rs. 50 per worker in December payroll, add Rs. 100 per worker of their own, and remit plus file Form D by January 15.
Cross-tested profit sharing lets a 55-year-old owner take a 13.2% allocation while staff receive the 4.4% gateway minimum — how new comparability 401(k)s pass IRS testing, what they cost, and when they backfire.
22% of U.S. organizations now offer pet insurance, up from 14% in 2022, and under the voluntary model it costs the employer nothing in premiums. How the three program models differ, what employees pay (about $43/month for dogs, $23 for cats), why the deduction must be post-tax, and the four DOL conditions that keep the benefit outside ERISA.
The SEC pays whistleblowers 10–30% of sanctions collected above $1 million, and received a record 53,753 tips in FY2025. Here is how the program works, why private companies are in scope, what Rule 21F-17 forbids in your NDAs, and the five internal-control steps that keep a concern from becoming an enforcement action.
Singapore's Local Qualifying Salary rose from S$1,600 to S$1,800 on 1 July 2026 — full-time locals below the line now count as half a head (or zero below S$900) toward Work Permit and S Pass quotas, CPF filings drive the weekly headcount refresh, and 30% PWCS co-funding offsets qualifying raises.
