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if you’re going to the aicpa’s mega-conference, engage (#aicpaengage), in las vegas, june 8-13… or simply tuning in for the live streaming, don’t miss the chance to see, meet, and chat with dozens of 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间’ leading expert authors and contributors, including: read more →
want to know exactly where your tax dollars go? want to vote on it?
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here’s an idea: taxpayers should get a receipt so they can see what they’re paying for.
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actually, that’s already a thing, and it’s been in the internal revenue code since 1990.
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the irs listed 6 risks. the gao found 10 more.
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here’s a curious situation: the internal revenue service of the wealthiest nation on earth, with all its power to collect taxes – be it by withholding, by a polite letter of request, by slapping somebody’s assets with a lien, by knocking on a delinquent’s door – sometimes the irs can’t afford to collect back taxes.
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when it can’t, it gives the power and privilege to a private debt collection (pdc) agency.
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and why the irs now needs a new mission statement.
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ten years ago, the internal revenue service changed a word in its mission statement.
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before: “provide america’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all.”
after: “provide america’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the tax law with integrity and fairness to all.”
the change was made without public discussion. it just appeared: subtle and quiet but deep and disturbing.
what’s the difference? attitude and approach. read more →
also: who’s hiring, who’s not among client business sectors.
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the tax and accounting industry is adding jobs at the rate of 37,000 per year, according to the latest data available, making the profession one of the fastest growing sectors of the u.s. economy.
at the top of the jobs ranking are individual and family services, computer systems design and related services, amusements, gambling, and recreation, home health care services, and warehousing and storage.
meanwhile, if you have clients in apparel, printing and related support activities, commercial banking, department stores, electronics and appliance stores, telecommunications, sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores, the outlook is not so rosy — they’re all trimming payrolls.
three recommendations for overhauling irs tech.
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the internal revenue service runs a pretty good business. for every dollar invested in its budget, it rakes in $300 in federal revenue, an annual total of $3.5 trillion on a budget of $11.43 billion.
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how odd, then, to find that the brains of the operation is a computer system that dates back to about 1960.
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three types, including one that some taxpayers don’t recognize as an audit.
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according to harper’s magazine, more than half of all americans would rather be mugged than audited by the irs. and many americans don’t see much of a difference between the two events.
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and that’s a problem. because fear and loathing are not conducive to voluntary compliance.
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does a 90% error rate alarm anyone?
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america needs tax preparers. without them … well, it’s hard to imagine how people would calculate any more than the most rudimentary returns.
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the funding of the government would fall to a fraction of what is needed to sustain the nation. tax preparers are an essential link between the government and those who fund it.
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understanding retail, software & online tax service users.
with options like retail walk-in tax prep, software services, or online filing, how do taxpayers decide? the data scientists at the consumer research agency exponential.com dove into the data to uncover the factors that may make someone more (+%) or less (- %) likely to utilize one of three common filing methods. read more →
senior tax accountant averages $99k. more: city-by-city details.
tax professionals know just about every detail of their clients’ lives, but how much do tax professionals earn?
korn ferry, the executive recruiters, think they know. and they’re spilling the beans.
using what they call the world’s largest such database, korn ferry pegs the u.s. national average of tax professional annual salaries at: read more →
survey: overhauling taxes was suggested.
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respondents to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer seemed a little optimistic earlier this year, but as the season staggers into april, tax practitioners are having second thoughts. suddenly, increasingly, the season looks bleak. now more and more respondents foresee a downturn in revenue and profit. fewer foresee a better year.
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many blame the tax system in general and the irs in particular. it all boils down to politics. chris cooper, a certified financial planner in san diego, says.“enact a flat tax or a vat, and eliminate taxing income and investments. then do away with the irs.” read more →
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the earned income tax credit is considered one of the most efficient federal programs for sustaining people with inadequate income. part of the eitc’s efficiency results from the lack of an intermediary checking the qualifications of those who receive it.
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the tax return itself is the application for eitc. there is no other process, no pre-return vetting, no social workers. the closest thing to an intermediary is the tax preparer who makes sure the correct income is reported and the correct forms filled out.
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b. focus on marketing and getting new business
c. learning from busy season ’19
d. investing in new technology
e. adding, cutting, or upgrading staff
f. adjusting pricing strategies & billing rates
g. changing jobs or getting a promotion
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