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beyond tax prep: the big cha-ching!

five reasons business clients are ready for tax advisory services.

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question: if half your tax clients were buying planning or advisory services for five times what they’re paying for tax prep, what would that add up to?

answer: a big cha-ching!

more on tax season: crisis at the irs | the irs’s 10 biggest problems. here are just the first five. | fear and loathing for tax season ’22 |  padar joins vc-backed tax fintech for banks |  covid chokes an already crippled irs | tax regs for the metaverse | 10 steps to a superior tax department | accountants critical of competitor price-cutting |  automate busy season with apps you already use | sales & use tax costs are higher than anyone thought | survey: nobody loves the wayfair decision | busy season forecast: more chaos  | a woman named wanda leaves an ira nightmare  | are you under-pricing your client accounting services?  | your best advice: get smart, get tech, get moving | worries for small business clients |

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this may be the season for tax filing, but accountants failing to leverage prep into planning and advisory are missing out on a lot of potential revenue.

the average annual fee for tax planning and advisory services is $2,351—five times the average annual tax prep fee of $459, according to a new study. read more →

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crisis at the irs

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tax preparers and taxpayers aren’t the only ones with tax problems. the irs has problems, too.

ten of those problems have been laid out in an annual report to congress from the taxpayer advocate service.

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we covered the top five here. and here are the next five explained. read more →

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the irs’s 10 biggest problems

here are just the first five.

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america’s taxpayer advocate service—an independent watchdog agency within the irs—has identified the ten most serious problems at the irs.

get the outlook for busy season 2022
bonus question: how to save the irs?
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full results are available for participants and pro members.

more: fear and loathing for tax season ’22 |  padar joins vc-backed tax fintech for banks |  covid chokes an already crippled irs | tax regs for the metaverse | 10 steps to a superior tax department | accountants critical of competitor price-cutting |  automate busy season with apps you already use | sales & use tax costs are higher than anyone thought | survey: nobody loves the wayfair decision | busy season forecast: more chaos  | a woman named wanda leaves an ira nightmare  | are you under-pricing your client accounting services?  | your best advice: get smart, get tech, get moving | worries for small business clients |

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by “problems,” the tas means the difference between what taxpayers want and what the irs delivers. unfortunately, tax preparers trying to bridge the gap between the two often end up taking grief for failing to do the impossible.

understanding the problems at the irs end can help practitioners explain the situation. here are the top five: read more →

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fear and loathing for tax season ’22

most tax and accounting practitioners see a bleak outlook ahead.

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tax and accounting professionals are launching into busy season 2022 with widespread fears of crisis and chaos, facing a third year of pandemic conditions, the staffing shortage, a sputtering irs, and political and economic uncertainties.

the outlook for busy season 2022?
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a majority of accountants are telling the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer that they are expecting an even worse year than last year, with 40 percent bracing for “somewhat” worse and 11 percent girding for “much “worse.

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padar joins vc-backed tax fintech for banks

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april tax solutions targets banks and financial institutions.

jody padar, cpa, also known as “the radical cpa,” has exited botkeeper after three years and joined april tax solutions, inc., a start-up that uses an intelligent tax platform to automate the filing process and embed tax prep into broader financial applications.

padar is head of tax and evangelism. april is backed by $10 million in seed capital from a number of venture capital funds.

“it’s time to bring taxes into the digital age,” says padar. “i’m excited to lead the charge and help the next generation of consumers and accounting professionals have a better relationship with tax filings.”

april says it partners directly with banks and financial institutions to do away with the silos traditionally existing between tax and financial planning. the company is rolling out in the first half of 2022 to select customers of leading fintech partners in time to file their taxes for this season.

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close the sale: getting across the finish line

what you need to know before you get to price.

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with sarah dobek and ty hendrickson
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negotiating the terms of a new engagement can be intimidating and downright scary.

related: growing revenue through client service | eat that frog: asking for a prospect meeting

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covid chokes an already crippled irs

can busy season get any worse? we’re about to find out.

irs workloads up, budgets down
irs workloads up, budgets down

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the year 2021 gave tax preparers and taxpayers one big mutual hope — the hope that such a year never happens again.

more for tax season 2022: eight ways to charm a client | prepping for tax season: plug small leaks before they become big floods | four issues with ‘quick’ tax questions | updated: accountants critical of competitor price-cutting | when to pick up the phone this tax season | get your team ready for tax season | automate busy season with apps you already use | these five procedures will simplify your tax season | 11 steps to better client tax instructions | 12 ways to squeeze fun into tax season | six ways to get paid faster | survey: worries for small business clients | busy season forecast: more chaos |

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and just in case congress didn’t get the message, national tax advocate erin m. collins submitted to that august body an annual report that pulled no punches and spared no explication. the new filing season starting jan. 24 could bring hitherto unbelievable problems.

the situation, she said, was dire. read more →

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tax regs for the metaverse

and 19 more tax issues for the wild world of e-commerce you didn’t know you needed to worry about.

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if you, as an accounting or tax professional, aren’t uneasy (if not terrified) by the whirl of the scary new world, you aren’t paying attention.

more in tax: sales & use tax costs are higher than anyone thought | survey: nobody loves the wayfair decision | salt: the small business disaster waiting to happen | avalara launches new tax automated compliance apps for accountants at all levels of practice | 10 steps to a superior tax department | automate busy season with apps you already use | busy season forecast: more chaos | how charlatans, creeps, and ghosts plague the tax profession |

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it isn’t just the perpetual pandemic, the clogged logistics, the turbulent politics, the automating algorithms, the climate catastrophes, the evolving economics, and the rush of rules and regs. it’s that, and more, all interlocked in global business and tax regimes that interact with each other and keep causing each other to change.

avalara’s sixth annual “tax changes” guide rolls out a tsunami of information that generates a tsunami of questions (so far, we have 20) that every number-cruncher—small, medium or large—should at least look at. read more →

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boom! covid drives startups

small-business start-up rate running 50% higher than pre-pandemic. (via zapier)

71% plan to continue with their new ventures.

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as the world bemoaned the cruelty and inconvenience of the covid-19 pandemic, a lot of entrepreneurs were making the best of times in the worst of times.

the result: a lot of new small businesses. and each one is an opportunity for an accountant.

more outlook & analysis: accountants critical of competitor price-cutting | are you under-pricing your client accounting services?  | stop complaining and start innovating | five tough-love strategies for 2022 | survey: tech is the path to a better tax season | private equity at the gates | top 20 trends for the year ahead | sales & use tax costs are higher than anyone thought |

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the pandemic years have seen a huge spike in not just covid-19 cases but new business creation, a breathtaking increase of 50 percent, according to a survey from zapier, the software automation company. it started just as existing businesses went into lockdown, and the trend isn’t stopping any more than the virus is.
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updated: accountants critical of competitor price-cutting

the average firm may be trimming billing rate increases. but 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 readers aren’t average.

cpa firm price increases slowed to a month-to-month increase of 0.4 percent in november, down from a 3.1 percent in september, and a fraction of the year-ago 1.9 percent hike. the picture in tax prep is even dimmer, with month-to-month slowdowns and year-to-year declines.

 

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ayster: not afraid to raise rates

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heading into tax season, cpa firms may be facing new pricing pressures, even as wages and consumer prices increase at record rates, according to a 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 study of new government economic data.

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to be sure, many 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 members responding to our survey are resisting the pressures, and plan on pushing ahead with price increases.

more surveys & research: sales & use tax costs are higher than anyone thought | are you under-pricing your client accounting services? | survey: nobody loves the wayfair decision | survey: worries for small business clients | busy season forecast: more chaos | salt: the small business disaster waiting to happen

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while inflation is pushing prices up at record rates in major sectors of the u.s. economy, cpa firms appear to be trimming their billing rate increases, slicing 0.2 percent off the average price from october to november, according to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research.

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survey: tech is the path to a better tax season

what firms are doing now and what they plan to add.

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some 90 percent of small firms and 94 percent of large firms are looking to technology to help achieve an improved tax season this year, according to a new survey.

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“successful firms will leverage cloud solutions and advanced technologies to deliver higher-value advisory services, unlock new data-driven insights and enhance the client experience,” according to the findings.
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2022年世界杯抽签

we’re honored

accounting today’s list of the top 100 most influential people includes 39 figures connected to 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 friends and contributors again figure prominently in the annual accounting today list of the top 100 most influential people in accounting.

“we’re grateful for the honor and happy to be working with so many of the profession’s leaders and newsmakers,” says rick telberg, ceo and founder of 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间.

on this year’s list, telberg is joined by:

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