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National Advocacy
National Advocacy
- Would allow STEM K-12 grant funding to be used for accounting awareness and education
- Focus on increasing access to those underrepresented in accounting careers
- Would allow taxpayers the ability to calculate and rely on a safe harbor of 125% of the prior year tax to be paid in by the original due date to avoid penalties.
- Would reduce the burden on practitioners, minimize processing of penalties and simplify the work of extensions
- Would amend the Internal Revenue Code to broaden the allowable use of 529 savings plans to cover the cost of certain workforce training, credentialing programs, certification exams and maintenance of certification credentials
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Establish a joint hearing of US House and Senate Budget Committees to receive testimony from the US Comptroller General
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Congress tends to focus on the budget
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Congress needs the full picture of the US financial health to make budget and spending decisions
