2019年AICPA考试受美国税改影响，改了哪些内容？

AICPA考试共有四门考试科目，其中REG科目受到2017年12月22日由美国总统特朗普签署的“ 税收减免和就业法案”的影响，TCJA）删除了Personal Exemption，AMT（Alternative Minimum Tax），以及针对跨司法区域税务处理 (multi-jurisdictional tax issues)的相关税法细则的修改。受影响最大的领域是联邦财产交易税（12-22％），联邦个人税（15-25％）和联邦实体税（28-38％）。

改动内容可以分为三大类：删除，修订，添加说明

删除

· Recall relationships qualifying for personal exemptions reported on federal Form 1040 — U.S. Individual Income Tax Return

· Identify the number of personal exemptions reported on federal Form 1040 — U.S. Individual Income Tax Return given a specifc scenario.

· Calculate alternative minimum taxable income and alternative minimum tax for a C corporation.

修订

· Compare the tax benefits of the different expensing options for tax depreciation for federal income tax purposes.

· Group name - Filing status

· Topic name - Computations of taxable income, taxliability and allowable credits

· Analyze the impact of net operating and/orcapital losses during tax planning for a Ccorporation.

· Calculate the revised basis of partnershipassets due to a transfer of a partnershipinterest for federal income tax purposes.

添加

· Calculate the qualifying business income(QBI) deduction for federal income taxpurposes.

· Recall relationships meeting the definitionof dependent for purposes of determiningtaxpayer filing status.

· Identify situations where the base erosionand anti-abuse tax (BEAT) would apply.

· Identify factors that would qualify incomeas Foreign Derived Intangible Income(FDII).

· Define the components of GlobalIntangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI).

备考REG对于中国考生来说最大的难点就是中美会计专责这一块，因此学习REG要对美国税法及商法这块多下功夫！