Corporate America should brace for more muscular and more cooperative regulatory enforcement efforts, new tax laws, and probably new regulations for how companies provide health insurance to the workforce, as the Obama Administration prepares to move into power next year.
Law firms, auditors, and consultants are furiously churning out legal memos and similar guidance, all speculating on how regulatory compliance may change once Jan. 20, 2009, rolls around. With only the first few Obama cabinet nominations dribbling out, nobody has any specifics yet, but already the contours of what to come are emerging.
