Audit work paper confidentiality (HB 9)

In response to the “Coingate” scandal, three legislators sponsored language that, if adopted, would have reversed longstanding, current law by making the work papers created by CPAs in the course of conducing public entity audits through the Auditor of State’s office public records. The Society was successful in educating legislators about the significant harm that would be caused by such a change to taxpayers, clients and CPA firms, and the provision removed from the legislation before it was passed in December 2006.

• House Bill 9
• Work paper fact sheet
  
  

Ongoing success

• Commercial Activity Tax: Keeping the base broad and rate low
• Interstate practice issues; state-to-state license mobility
• Sales tax on services

2007

• Modification to Ohio’s tax code (Sub. HB 157)
• Changes to title agency review rules (Sub. HB 157)
• Further uniformity to Ohio’s municipal income tax collection methods (Sub. HB 224)
• Improving the internal audit function of Ohio Executive Branch (Sub. HB 166)
• Ohio Government Audit Work Paper Public Record Issue

2006

• Title agency review rules
• Ohio government audit work paper public record issue
• Audit work paper confidentiality (HB 9)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley privacy notification exemption (SB 2856)
• Ohio income tax residency requirements; increase in contact periods (HB 73)
• Statute of limitations for tax collection (HB 390)
• ORC and IRC uniformity regarding treatment of charitable pension distributions (HB 699)
• Ohio attorney general rules impacting charitable entities
• Data breach legislation (HB 104)

2005

• Tax reform (HB 66)
• Protecting the regulation of the accounting profession (HB 66)
• Improving Ohio’s legal environment (SB 80)

2004

• Agreed upon rules and procedures for nonprofit child caring agencies
• Elimination of licensed professionals from independent contractor classification (HB 200)

2003

• Municipal income tax reform (HB 95)
• Tort reform; limiting abusive lawsuits (SB 120)