Matching Pairs Business Law Game #2Online version matching game with different laws that apply to businesses by Stephanie Ganser 1 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 2 Finance law 3 Tax laws 4 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 5 Antitrust laws 6 U.S. Department of Labor 7 Intellectual property law 8 Advertising and marketing laws 9 Securities Law 10 Bankruptcy laws 11 Federal Trade Commission 12 Employment and Labor Law 13 Indiana Department of Revenue (IDR) oversees and regulates advertising and marketing law as well as privacy laws This agency oversees trading on stock exchanges and other modes of security transfers. It makes sure the businesses trading comply with certain financial and reporting requirements to protect traders. These are the laws that cover the rules pertaining to taxes, including income tax, property tax and sales tax. These laws impact many areas of business, including how products are labeled, how email and telemarketing campaigns can be conducted, the type of health and environmental claims that can be made about a product or service, as well as how a business can advertise to children. This agency handles taxes on the federal level. This agency handles Indiana taxes. These laws cover everything from preventing discrimination and harassment in the workplace, workplace poster requirements, wage and hour laws and workers’ compensation regulations. Covers antitrust, bankruptcy, and securities laws to protect the financial interests of small businesses and individual investors. legislation that regulates trade and commerce, to make sure that businesses compete fairly. They prevent, for example, price fixing and monopolies. These laws promote competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive business practices. If a business sells publicly traded securities like stocks or bonds on a securities exchange then the business needs to comply with certain financial and reporting obligations. These rules are designed to make trading securities fair and to ensure illegal activities, such as insider trading, do not occur. Covers trademarks, patents and copyrights This agency oversees federal employment and labor law; however, individual states also have their own specific laws. These laws allow a debtor who cannot pay his debts resolve his financial dilemma. The laws guide the disposition of available assets to creditors and then relieve the debtor of the remaining liabilities.