Comment Letters

Pennsylvania Senate

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

Pennsylvania Governor

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

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

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

Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development

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

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 

• Mission Funding Alpha v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - July 7, 2016
  
  

Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry

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

Pennsylvania Department of Treasury 

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

Pennsylvania Department of State

• PICPA Comments re: Reg 16A-60 Expungement - 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 - March 4, 2020
• Letter Urging Support for Fiscal State of the Nation Resolution - U.S. Sen. Toomey - March 4, 2020
• Comment letter to U.S. Sens. Rob Portman and Benjamin Cardin Regarding the Protecting Taxpayers Act - Aug. 27, 2018 
• Requesting PA Senators support S. 540 – Mobile Workforce Income Tax Simplification Act in the Upcoming Government Spending Legislation - Feb. 28, 2018 
• Letter to Pennsylvania Delegation Re: Tax Reform - Nov. 3, 2017
• State Societies re: Mobile Workforce Cosponsorship - Letter to Sen. Bob Casey - April 27, 2017
• State Societies re: Mobile Workforce Cosponsorship - Letter to Sen. Pat Toomey - April 27, 2017

U.S. House of Representatives 

• Email to U.S. Rep. Meuser - Request Release of Key PPP Guidance - May 4, 2020
• PICPA Supports AICPA Initiative on Payroll Processing - 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 - March 31, 2018
• Requesting Pa. Representatives Support S. 540 - Mobile Workforce Income Tax Simplification Act in the Upcoming Government Spending Legislation - 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" - Feb. 15, 2017

American Institute of CPAs (AICPA)

• Proposed Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements – Clarification and Recodification - Oct. 10, 2018
• AICPA PEEC – Proposed Interpretation and Other Guidance – State and Local Government Entities - Oct. 6, 2017
• AICPA/NASBA Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA) - Sept. 27, 2017
• 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" - July 28, 2017
• 2017 Discussion Paper: Proposed Evolution of Peer Review Administration - June 13, 2017
• SSARS 23 – Omnibus Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services – 2016 - March 16, 2017
• Omnibus Proposal – Proposed Revised and New Interpretations Applicable to Members in Business - March 16, 2017

Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

• Technical Bulletin 2020-a - June 23, 2020
• Project No. 3-34 Communication Methods in General Purpose External Financial Reports - June 16, 2020
• 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 - April 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 - March 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 - March 13, 2017 
• GASB Committee Response to 201X-Y Implementation Guide - Jan. 23, 2017

American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) Professional Ethics Division

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

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

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

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

• 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 - Oct. 31, 2017
• 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) - May 4, 2017
• File Reference No. 2017-210: Proposed Accounting Standards Update on Inventory (Topic 330) - Disclosure Framework - Feb. 22, 2017

International Auditing and Assurance Boards

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

Local Taxes

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