An amendment to Sarbanes-Oxley Act has been proposed to prevent the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board from requiring companies to rotate auditors. http://www.complianceweek.com/congress-moves-to-block-pcaob-on-auditor-rotation/article/233485/
Also see this letter where AICPA opposes mandatory audit rotation, so AICPA and PCAOB appear to disagree on this topic.http://www.aicpa.org/InterestAreas/ProfessionalEthics/Community/CommentLetters/DownloadableDocuments/aicpa-letter-pcaob-concept-release-mfr.pdf
This article from Journal of Accountancy covers related issues http://journalofaccountancy.com/Web/20125365.htm
Also panelists highlight issues http://www.cgma.org/Magazine/News/Pages/20125371.aspx
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