does irs need a practitioner services division?

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practitioner orgs say “yes!”

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the internal revenue service has less than six months to provide congress with a comprehensive strategy for providing taxpayers with better service. the report, due july 1, is mandated by the taxpayer first act of 2019.

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the irs is already hammering out a strategy on several fronts – enforcement, technology, modernization, training, cybersecurity, overall structure and organization, and, yes, taxpayer experience.
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irs urged to form tax preparer strategy

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taxpayer advocate says it’s long overdue.

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every year by legal mandate, the national taxpayer advocate, who heads the taxpayer advocacy service within the irs, files a report to congress. the report identifies problems within the irs and offers recommendations to solve them.

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this year, the acting director of the tas, bridget t. roberts, has identified the lack of a comprehensive strategy for the tax practitioner community as one of the irs’s most serious problems. although 80 million americans depend on tax preparers to do their civic duty, the irs’s efforts to serve practitioners is focused mostly on misconduct issues, not on helping them get the job done.
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tax season is hacker season

checklist: five things to do today to protect your firm and your clients.

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by jess coburn
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businesses of all sizes are targets from what has become the most vicious, innovative, and lucrative criminal endeavors we’ve ever witnessed. and tax practitioners are particularly easy targets.

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the financial services industry is perhaps the most targeted because of the value of data it possesses. and the most frequently targeted are cpas and those who prepare tax returns.

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accountants cautiously bullish on the economy

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“local optimism” a bit better than last year.

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new year, new strategies.

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when cpas talk about the economy, people listen. they listen because accountants have their finger on the pulse of the economy. they look at real numbers all day. they look at where the numbers are coming from and where they’re probably going. it’s what they do.

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for that reason, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间’ 2020 busy season barometer steps back from strictly tax issues to ask how things look economically. the answers are always interesting.

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survey results: tax pros forecast a better 2020

difficult clients? show them the door.

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last year was rough on tax preparers – the overhaul of the tax code on top of the government shutdown, the forms and schedules unavailable, the obsolete software.

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but as they say, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. and according to the early results of the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 2020 busy barometer, those who survived last year have learned some lessons and are making changes.
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suchoff takes cannabis accounting passion national

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she cites the usual complicators: 280e, the dearth of banking services.

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sandy suchoff’s initial interest in cannabis came when a family member had an immune deficiency condition. the treatments seemed almost as hazardous as the disease itself.

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medications came with lists of serious side effects and often conflicted with each other. but from what suchoff read – and she read a lot – cannabis could do a world of good without threatening harm.
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can the irs enforce the tax code?

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more than token efforts are needed.

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the internal revenue service has its work cut out for it this year. government outlays are expected to increase by a good $200 billion in 2020, and the deficit is expected to rise from $981 billion to just over a trillion dollars, provided revenues increase by a projected $188 billion. according to the congressional budget office, the tax reductions effected by the tax cuts and jobs act will increase the budget deficit by a net $1.891 trillion by 2027.

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so the irs needs every penny it can scrape up. but the scraping’s been hindered by agency budget cuts and consequent losses of personnel. just as the country needs more revenue than ever, its tax collector is struggling to enforce its tax code.
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[survey results] tax pro’s upbeat on cusp of busy season

higher revenues and net profits. what’s not to like?

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it may be too soon to say for sure, but america’s tax pros think we might be coming up on a pretty good tax season – more clients, no big new tax rules, software up and running, staff up to speed on last year’s tax cuts and jobs act.

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granted, this is a comparison with last year, an annus horribilis that will go down in annals of accountancy. remember? a major overhaul of tax rules. a shortage of new forms. software suddenly obsolete. clients confused. and the irs shuttered for a government shutdown.
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irs undertakes overhaul

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including a 6-point strategic plan.

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chuck rettig has been commissioner of the internal revenue service for just over a year, but he has behind him 36 years of experience as a tax professional.

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that experience includes the experience of trying to get answers out of the irs, waiting on hold, struggling to make sense of tens of thousands of pages of tax rules and rulings, and dealing with mid-season pronouncements. he knows how it is.
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it’s official: irs sets monday, jan. 27, as start of filing season 2020

april 15 is in 98 days. but who’s counting?

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the internal revenue service confirmed that the nation’s tax season will start for individual tax return filers on monday, january 27, 2020, when the tax agency will begin accepting and processing 2019 tax year returns.

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the deadline to file 2019 tax returns and pay any tax owed is wednesday, april 15, 2020. more than 150 million individual tax returns for the 2019 tax year are expected to be filed, with the vast majority of those coming before the traditional april tax deadline. read more →

receipt bank raises $73 million

debt and equity infusion to be used for expansion and product development.

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london-based receipt bank, which fields machine-learning software that fetches financial information from multiple sources, digitizing and categorizing it for more than 50,000 accountants and bookkeepers, has raised $73 million in debt and equity financing for product development and market expansion.

the news follows bill.com’s initial public offering in december on the new york stock exchange where it sold 9.82 million shares, raising $216 million and giving it a valuation of about $1.6 billion. bill.com automates invoicing for 81,000 businesses.

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trending for 2020

the most-read articles at 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 for 2019.

if past is prologue, tax and accounting practitioners are heading into 2020 with their eyes squarely focused on a new busy season, new services lines, and the unrelenting, unforgiving changes in the business and profession.

here are the top 10 most-read, most-shared articles from 2019 at 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间:

1. ready for non-cpa cpa firms?

what the aicpa and nasba could learn from other professions.
by donny c. shimamoto, cpa.citp, cgma
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2. 16 big questions for tax season

america’s tax and accounting practitioners are suffering the brunt of the shortcomings at the irs. but the profession may have some of the solutions.
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3. is client accounting services overhyped?

new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 study shows broad interest in cas, but also widespread failures to achieve hoped-for goals.
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