Bloomberg Tax & Accounting has set a series of webinars to help tax and accounting professionals with Covid-19-related issues. The free webinars begin on Tuesday, April 7 and continue through May 28.

A recent online survey by the Maryland Association of CPAs shows not surprisingly 72 percent of respondents are worried about a potential recession. The survey involved more than 400 “attendees” of a session on professional issues update that have previously been held as in-person events.

The tax and accounting market lives on information--after all that's what's in a tax return or a financial statement, information. In the era of the COVID-19 market, firms and their clients need information about a lot of different subjects: actions of regulators, fianncial institutions and general health information for every one.

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has issued a temporary rule to provide emergency paid sick and family and medical leave. The action was taken under the recently enacted Families First Coronavirus Response Act.