Because these public companies don't have the same reporting rules and oversight as those traded on the major markets, their stocks are often used as vehicles for market manipulation schemes.
There are growing calls for priests to be subject to the same mandatory reporting rules that other professions are, despite church rules that the confessional should remain secret.
Crowdfunding websites, or portals, will have to be registered with securities commissions as "restricted dealers," and comply with minimum capital and insurance requirements as well as various reporting rules.
The new principal residence reporting rules are part of a larger thrust by the feds to make it more difficult to dodge taxes (something you should never do anyway).
