U.S. Senate Finance Committee members and industry experts debated recommendations on business tax reform.
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The IRS and the U.S. Treasury Department examined proposed regulations to the Internal Revenue Code that would recharacterize certain debt instruments issued to related parties as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury will hold a public hearing to review jointly proposed debt-equity regulations. The proposed regulations were published in the Federal Register.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will meet on February 25, 2016 to discuss its strategic outlook and "financial well-being."
Eight of ten voting members of the Financial Stability Oversight Council ("FSOC") testified at a House Financial Services Committee oversight hearing on FSOC's agenda, operations and structure. In opening remarks, Representative Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) observed that FSOC has earned "bipartisan condemnation" through measures such as (i) its designation of non-bank financial institutions as "systemically important financial institutions" ("SIFIs") and (ii) its annual report, that was intended to identify emerging threats to financial stability, but "omit[ted] any references to specific government