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readers sound off: what tax season decline?

some are busier than ever, while others report a change in clientele.

by beth bellor
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our recent story, tax season half over but no one is celebrating, seemed to have some readers scratching their heads.

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filing statistics are down, according to the irs (which should know).
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tax season half over but no one is celebrating

pros are gaining ground in e-filings.

by beth bellor
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we’re halfway through tax season! woohoo, blow the party horns!

more tax season data: tax pros filing only 51% of e-returns | tax refunds up slightly | tax filings data looking less squirrely | tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
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where’s your horn? you don’t seem to be celebrating. what up, dog?

filing statistics are down, and some of you aren’t shy about suggesting why.
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tax & accounting industry shows signs of slowdown

cpa firms, payroll among brighter spots.

who’s hiring, who’s not?
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by beth bellor
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accounting employment in most sectors is on the upswing, but the hikes that sometimes reached into the double digits in 2016 appear to be leveling off, even after adjusting for busy season differences, according to a new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 analysis.

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gains over 5 percent were seen only in the number of women working in payroll services.

in this report, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 highlights:

current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, payroll, tax and cpa segments of the industry.
average hourly wages for key segments
typical hours worked per week
trends concerning women in the accounting workforce

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tax pro e-filing down 10%

chart of irs filing data — **[click for larger image]**

refunds are the only figure tracking higher this year.

by beth bellor
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the e-filing margin between tax professionals and self-preparers is narrowing. still, the pace of e-filing by tax professionals is running 10% behind the same time last year.

more tax season data: tax refunds up slightly | tax filings data looking less squirrely | tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
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as of march 3, the irs had received 61.1 million individual income tax returns, down 8.5 percent from the same period last year, although 2017 has had four fewer processing days so we’re comparing oranges to tangerines.
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tax refunds up slightly

everything else is down.

now that tax refunds are flowing out steadily, they are ever so slightly higher than last year.

more on taxes: tax filings data looking less squirrely | tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
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that’s the only filing statistic on the positive side, though. four fewer reporting days than at the same time last year has most markers down around 10 percent.
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where the jobs are (and what you need to get them)

salaries, job openings and unemployment rates — salaries, job openings, and unemployment rates

bonus: salary ranges and top markets.

by beth bellor
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everyone knows there are jobs to be had in the accounting profession. but exactly where are they, and how much do they pay?

more on jobs: cpa firms post 5% growth rate | how to set your firm apart to recruits
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according to new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research, the number of accounting and finance jobs available now tops 200,000. where they geographically vary by position.
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pay & compensation

cpa firms post 5% growth rate

tax and accounting industry hits 1 million workers, capping more than 25 years of sometimes volatile expansion. shown: workforce in thousands, monthly, 1990-2016.

tax & accounting hiring trends for 2017:
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by beth bellor
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it’s still a great time to be an accountant, according to new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research. but watch the long-term trends carefully. all the gains are not always what they seem at first.

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year over year, cpa firm staffs are growing by 4.7 percent while payroll overall is increasing at a 4.6 percent rate. the number of tax preparation employees is falling, however, 12.5 percent for the latest month, but up 3.2 percent for the year. women are making some large year-over-year gains as well – 4.8 percent at cpa firms and 12 percent at payroll services.

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tax filings data looking less squirrely

chart of irs filing data for week ending feb. 10, 2017 — [click for larger image]

some refunds remain unreported, but filings are catching up.

by beth bellor
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year-to-year differences in tax filing data are starting to level off.

more: tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar
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four fewer reporting days in 2017 skewed results at first, but statistics for the week ending feb. 10 show a difference in returns filed of around 17 percent, about half the 33 percent decline that led off the season.
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busy season management

tax return filings still lag, but pros hold 57% of market

chart of irs filing data for the week ended feb. 3, 2017 — **[click for larger image]**

four days fewer in 2017 still skewing statistics.

the irs continues to churn back tax returns nearly as quickly as it receives them, while the percentage that were self-prepared is tracking higher than the same point last year.

more: tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar | survey results: bullish on busy season 2017 | 2017 fee survey: price for non-itemized 1040s advances 6% to $176
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with 20.18 million returns received as of feb. 3, the latest data available, the agency had processed 19.97 million or 98.9 percent of them.
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tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar

chart of tax filing data for week ending jan. 27 — **[click for larger image]**

tax pros make up 38% of e-filings.

next question: how’s tax season so far?
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by beth bellor
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it’s a shiny new tax season, and that means more shiny new filing data from the irs.

more tax season 2017: free instant download: sample fee schedule for 1040s | tax filings down, but irs blames the calendar | survey results: busy season 2017 gets off to strong start | 2017 fee survey: price for non-itemized 1040s advances 6% to $176 | the annual tax meeting is dead. clients killed it. | reader sound-off: mandatory saturdays stir controversy

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of course, since it comes from the irs, it also has its own set of footnotes and qualifiers. for one, even though we’re comparing the week ending jan. 27, 2017, with the week ending jan. 29, 2016, the 2016 figure included four more days of tax return processing – although when comparing identical numbers of days, 2017 marks an increase. for another, the new law requiring a hold on refunds involving the earned income tax credit and additional child tax credit until feb. 15 is skewing early season refund numbers and dollar amounts, because many taxpayers claiming these credits are early filers. read more →

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reader sound-off: mandatory saturdays stir controversy

commenting on “mandatory saturdays,” clockwise from top left: stitely, boress, michel, evarts

is it work-life balance, or firm-employee balance?

sound-off: does your firm mandate saturdays?
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by beth bellor
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tax season has yet to start and already tempers are flaring in the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 comments section as practitioners debate requiring staffers to work on saturdays during busy season.

more on staffing: making flex time work in the real world | guidelines for flexible work policies | do flexible hours help or hurt us? | survey: 97% of leading firms now offer flexible work arrangements | the 12 reasons your staff hates your firm | staffing: what cpa firms are learning the hard way

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in “how to make mandatory saturdays a thing of the past,” 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 contributor jennifer wilson says the “cool firms” are eliminating the age-old practice nd replacing it with flex-time, work-at-home, and results-oriented strategies. still, she says, “i literally hear a gasp of surprise because it challenges one of the most fundamental elements of public accounting – tracking, measuring and valuing time.”

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