States are doing their part too; since 2004, 22 have imposed various e-filing mandates on preparers.
It's sort of well what happens if you don't file the mandate?
After that, if there is no petition filed, the mandate will issue (meaning that the Ninth Circuit's decision will come into effect, Prop 8 will end, and same-sex marriages will resume in California).
Hedge funds are likely to resist any proposal by FinCEN that mandates filing suspicious activity reports on the grounds that it imposes too great a burden on them, but I suspect that argument will fall on deaf ears.
The company has subsequently quietly released its Equal Employment Opportunity EEOO) report, a legally mandated filing with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, that shows the exact numbers of people of different ethnicities across all ranks of the company.
I can lawfully direct the secretary to properly exercise her discretion in making a decision on the returns, but I cannot enjoin the secretary to make a particular decision, nor can I rewrite the statute which, by its plain meaning, mandates the filing of returns by the canvassing boards by 5 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2000.
Apart from scrutinizing customers, the 24-hour rule, which mandates early filing of shipping documents, is changing the way multinational companies and those with foreign suppliers operate.
Federal courts have dismissed most of the roughly 30 lawsuits already filed against the mandate by Catholic dioceses and other nonprofit corporations, because the government is not enforcing the mandate for religiously affiliated nonprofits until this August.
As I report in today's IHT, many American expatriates have been dismayed to learn that this year they have a new tax filing requirement, Form 8938, mandated by Congress under the Foreign Account and Tax Compliance Act.
The SEC also implemented a rule that mandated electronic filing and Web site posting for stock transactions by officers, directors or 10% holders, by 10 p.m. on the day of an action.
It is intended to end a troubled foreclosure review of millions of loan files that was mandated by the banking regulators.
