Document ID: SEC-2021-0413-0001
Agency: sec
Document Type: Notice
Title: Order: Approving Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Budget; Amendment; and Annual Accounting Support Fee For Calendar Year 2021
Posted Date: 2021-03-25T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 56 (Thursday, March 25, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15973-15974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-06137]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[Release No. 10905A/March 19, 2021; Release No. 90693A/March 19, 2021]

Securities Act of 1933; Securities Exchange Act of 1934; 
Amendment To Order Approving Public Company Accounting Oversight Board 
Budget and Annual Accounting Support Fee for Calendar Year 2021

    On December 16, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the 
``Commission'') issued an Order (the ``Order'') approving the Public 
Company Accounting Oversight Board (``PCAOB'') budget and annual 
accounting support fee for calendar year 2021,\1\ pursuant to Section 
109 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended (the ``Sarbanes-Oxley 
Act'').\2\ That Order stated, among other things, that the PCAOB should 
submit its 2020 annual report (``2020 Annual Report'') to the 
Commission by March 31, 2021. The PCAOB has informed the Commission 
staff that, due to a change in auditors in January 2021, the 2020 
Annual Report, including the audit report, may not be completed by 
March 31, 2021.
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    \1\ See Order Approving Public Company Accounting Oversight 
Board Budget and Annual Accounting Support Fee for Calendar Year 
2021, Release No. 33-10905 (Dec. 16, 2020) [85 FR 83642 (Dec. 22, 
2020)].
    \2\ 15 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.
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    The Commission is amending the Order to permit the PCAOB to submit 
its 2020 Annual Report to the Commission by April 30, 2021.
    Accordingly,
    It is ordered, pursuant to Section 109 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 
that the PCAOB should submit its 2020 Annual Report to the Commission 
by April 30, 2021.

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    By the Commission.
Eduardo A. Aleman,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2021-06137 Filed 3-24-21; 8:45 am]
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