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    Goodbye to Taxes as We Know Them (and to Season 3)

    enAugust 16, 2022
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    About this Episode

    A proposal to tax companies based on book income instead of their tax income was tucked into the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and that sure got Steve Soter and Josh Gertsch talking. Catherine soaks in why it’s such a big deal for accounting teams.

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