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When It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Usually Is

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 02.14.06

Many of us were surprised in 2000 when the Court of Federal Claims found that state income taxes paid by the individual owner of a Subchapter S corporation were allowable state income costs of the corporation on contracts performed by the corporation. It comes as no surprise that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed in Information Systems & Networks Corp. v. U.S. (Feb. 6, 2006), holding that, when state law follows federal law and imposes income taxes on the owners of Subchapter S corporations but not on the corporations themselves, the corporations are exempt from taxation and the tax paid by the individual owner is not an allowable cost of the corporation.

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Client Alert | 1 min read | 07.08.26

CAS Board Publishes Final Rule Rescinding CAS 404, 408, 409, and 4117

As part of its ongoing effort to conform the Cost Accounting Standards (“CAS”) to generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the CAS Board published a final rule rescinding CAS 408 (Accounting for costs of compensated personal absence) and CAS 411 (Accounting for acquisition costs of material).  The CAS Board also rescinded CAS 404 (Capitalization of tangible assets) and CAS 409 (Depreciation of tangible capital assets) but retained certain requirements of CAS 404 and 409, which will be located in new paragraphs of CAS 405 (Accounting for unallowable costs).  Specifically, the CAS Board retained the requirements currently located at CAS 404-50(d)(1), CAS 409-50(e)(5), CAS 409-50(j)(1), and CAS 409-50(j)(4), which the CAS Board explained are necessary to protect the Government’s interests.  Otherwise, the CAS Board determined that the requirements of CAS 404, 408, 409, and 411 overlapped with GAAP such that GAAP “may be applied reasonably as a substitute for CAS to support contract cost and pricing.”...

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