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The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued final regulations this week on Section 1035 exchanges for life insurance contracts, eliminating a number of tax gotchas from regulations issued in 2019 that also affected corporate reorganizations and death benefits for survivors. Processing Content A 1035 exchange allows taxpayers to swap out an existing life…

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Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Claire McDonough | GE Vernova GE Vernova appointed Claire McDonough as the energy firm’s new CFO. McDonough will join the company in November before taking over as finance chief on Jan. 1, 2027. McDonough is currently chief…

Confronted by a chronic talent shortage, fee compression and ever-increasing workloads, more U.S. accounting firms are turning to offshore talent.  Processing Content In earlier columns I’ve talked about the payoff from offshoring when it’s done patiently and correctly. But there are some things you should know about how the process works before diving in. Here…

(RTTNews) – The Japanese stock market is sharply higher on Wednesday, recouping the losses in the previous two sessions, with the benchmark Nikkei index gaining more than 500 points to staying just below the 27,400 level, following the broadly positive cues overnight from Wall Street, amid easing geopolitical concerns following news Russia is pulling back…