Comment Letters

Pennsylvania Senate

• Email to Senate Finance Committee - Please Support HB 2408, Printer's No. 3676 - Dated May 11, 2020
• Email to Senate Finance Committee - Please Support HB 1796 - Dated April 6, 2020
• Memo to Senate Finance Committee - Please Support House Bill 17 - Dated Oct. 21, 2019
• Email to Senate State Government Committee - Please Support House Bills 1420 and 1421 - Dated Oct. 24, 2017
• Email to Senate Finance Committee - Please Support House Bill 866 - Dated June 26, 2017
• Email to Full Senate - Please Support House Bill 866 - Dated June 28, 2017
• Email to Full Senate - Support S.B. 1360 - Compliance with Federal Overtime Rules - Dated March 8, 2017 

Pennsylvania Governor

• Email to Gov. Tom Wolf - State Taxation of Paycheck Protection Program Funds - Dated April 22, 2020
• Email to Gov. Tom Wolf - PICPA Membership as a Resource - Dated March 30, 2020
• Email to Gov. Tom Wolf - State‐level 2019 Tax Filing and Payment Extension - Dated March 19, 2020
• Letter to Gov. Tom Wolf - Please Support House Bills 1420 and 1421 - Dated Dec. 15, 2017

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

• Email to House Finance Committee - Please Support HB 2288 - CPA Law Amendments - Dated June 3, 2020
• Email to House Finance Committee - Please Support HB 2497 - Dated May 18, 2020
• Email to House Leadership - Please Support Amendment A05336 to HB 2408 - Dated April 29, 2020
• Letter to House Professional Licensure Committee - Please Consider House Bill 1566 - Dated Dec. 18, 2019
• Email to Full House - Please Support House Bill 706 - Amendment A00529 - Dated April 15, 2019
• Memo Email to House Finance - Please Support HB 706 - Dated March 25, 2019
• Email to House Finance - Please Support A09950 to HB 2413 - Dated Oct. 8, 2018
• Joint letter from PICPA, Association of Independent Colleges & Universities, PA Credit Union Association re: Keystone Scholars Program - Dated June 19, 2018 
• Joint letter from PICPA and PA Chamber re: Tax Appeals - Dated Aug. 2, 2017
• Email to Full House - Please Support House Bills 1420 and 1421 - Dated June 13, 2017
• Email to Full House -Please Support House Bill 866 - Dated June 12 , 2017
• Email to House Finance - Please Support House Bills 1420 and 1421 - Dated June 6, 2017
• Email to House Leadership -Please Support Senate Bill 1 - June 6, 2017
• Letter to Freshman Legislators - Re: Property Tax Reform - Dated Jan. 17, 2017

Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development

• Local Earned Income Tax Issues Letter - Dated May 28, 2020
• Pennsylvania Local Tax Enabling Act Comment Letter - Dated July 12, 2018
• Pennsylvania Film Production Tax Credit Comment Letter - Dated Jan. 9, 2017

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 

• Mission Funding Alpha v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  
  

Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry

• Joint Letter re: Request to Extend Public Comment Period for Overtime Proposal - Dated June 29, 2018

Pennsylvania Department of Treasury 

• Funding State Treasury Board of Finance and Revenue  - Dated March 12, 2020

Pennsylvania Department of State

• PICPA Comments re: Reg 16A-60 Expungement - Dated July 22, 2019

U.S. Senate

• PICPA Urges Relief for 501(c) Organizations Amidst COVID-19 Crisis - March 24, 2020
• Letter Urging Support for Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution - U.S. Sen. Casey - Dated March 4, 2020
• Letter Urging Support for Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution - U.S. Sen. Toomey - Dated March 4, 2020
• Comment letter to U.S. Sens. Rob Portman and Benjamin Cardin regarding the Protecting Taxpayers Act - Dated Aug. 27, 2018 
• Requesting PA Senators support S. 540 – Mobile Workforce Income Tax Simplification Act in the upcoming government spending legislation - Dated Feb. 28, 2018 
• Letter to PA Delegation Re: Tax Reform - Dated Nov. 3, 2017
• State Societies re: Mobile Workforce Cosponsorship - Letter to Sen. Bob Casey - Dated April 27, 2017
• State Societies re: Mobile Workforce Cosponsorship - Letter to Sen. Pat Toomey- Dated April 27, 2017

U.S. House of Representatives 

• Email to U.S. Rep Meuser - Request Release of Key PPP Guidance - Dated May 4, 2020
• PICPA Supports AICPA Initiative on Payroll Processing - Dated March 22, 2020
• Requesting Support of Select members of the Pa. House re: Please Cosponsor Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution - Oct. 10, 2019
• Taxpayer First Act Discussion Draft, U.S. House Subcommittee on Oversight – PICPA Federal Tax Committee Response to the Discussion Draft – Dated March 31, 2018
• Requesting PA Representatives support S. 540 – Mobile Workforce Income Tax Simplification Act in the upcoming government spending legislation – Dated Feb. 28, 2018 
• AICPA Letter to Committee on Small Business Chairman, Steve Chabot, & Ranking Member, Rep. Nydia Velázquez – RE : Hearing on "Startups Stalling? The Tax Code as a Barrier to Entrepreneurship" – Dated Feb. 15, 2017

American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)

• Re: Proposed Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements – Clarification and Recodification - Dated Oct. 10, 2018
• Re: AICPA PEEC – Proposed Interpretation and Other Guidance – State and Local Government Entities - Dated Oct. 6, 2017
• Re: AICPA/NASBA Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) - Dated Sept. 27, 2017
• Re: Proposed Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS), AU-C Section 703, "Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements of Employee Benefit Plans Subject to ERISA" - Dated July 28, 2017
• Re: 2017 Discussion Paper: Proposed Evolution of Peer Review Administration - Dated June 13, 2017
• Re: SSARS 23 – Omnibus Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services – 2016 - Dated March 16, 2017
• Re: Omnibus Proposal – Proposed Revised and New Interpretations Applicable to Members in Business - Dated March 16, 2017

Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

• Subscription-Based Information Technology Arrangements – Project No. 38 and Public-Private and Public-Public Partnerships & Availability Payment Arrangements - Project No. 30-1 - Aug. 15, 2019
• Omnibus 20XX - Project No. 37-1 and Internal Revenue Code Section 457 - Deferred Compensation Plans That Meet the Definition of a Pension Plan & Supersession of GASB Statement 32 - Project No. 3-33 - Aug. 15, 2019
• Proposed Implementation Guide on Leases - Project 3-24 - Apr. 29, 2019
• Financial Reporting Model Improvements - Project 3-25 - Feb. 13, 2019
• Recognition of Elements of Financial Statements - Project 3-20 - Feb. 13, 2019
• Implementation Guidance Update - Project No. 24-16d - Jan. 30, 2019
• Conduit Debt Obligations - Project No. 26-6 - Oct. 2, 2018 
• Revenue and Expense Recognition, Project No. 4-6I - Mar. 28, 2018 
• Implementation Guide No. 201Y-X: Project 24-16ED- Feb. 12, 2018
• Accounting for Interest Cost during the Period of Construction: Project 9-5 - Feb. 12, 2018
• GASB Project 3-30 Certain Disclosures Related to Debt - Sept. 5, 2017
• GASB Committee Response on Financial Reporting Model Improvements-Governmental Funds Project 3-25I - Dated Mar. 13, 2017 
• GASB Committee Response to 201X-Y Implementation Guide - Dated Jan. 23, 2017

American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Professional Ethics Division

• Re: Exposure Draft – Client and Attest Client – Proposed Revised Definitions of Client and Attest Client as well as Related Definitions, Interpretations, and Other Guidance - Dated May 15, 2017

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Re: Proposed Changes to Government Auditing Standards (commonly known as Yellow Book) – 2017 Exposure Draft  - Dated July 6, 2017

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

• Re: File Reference No. 2017-270: Proposed Accounting Standards Update, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958) Clarifying the Scope and the Accounting Guidance for Contributions Received and Contributions Made - Dated Oct. 31, 2017
• Re: File Reference No. 2017-200: Proposed Accounting Standards Update—Debt (Topic 470): Simplifying the Classification of Debt in a Classified Balance Sheet (Current versus Noncurrent) - Dated May 4, 2017
• Re: File Reference No. 2017-210: Proposed Accounting Standards Update on Inventory (Topic 330) - Disclosure Framework - Dated Feb. 22, 2017

International Auditing and Assurance Boards

• Re: Exploring the Growing Use of Technology in the Audit, with a Focus on Data Analytics - Dated Feb. 15, 2017

Local Taxes

• Re: Notices to Cumberland County Taxpayers - Oct. 17, 2019