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why shouldn’t all tax practitioners need licenses?

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does a 90% error rate alarm anyone?

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

america needs tax preparers. without them … well, it’s hard to imagine how people would calculate any more than the most rudimentary returns.

more: data divers profile taxpayer filing styles | who’d like a friend in the irs? | wanna change the tax world? | the big free-file flop | survey: busy season goes sour | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding
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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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salary survey shows pay for tax professionals

senior tax accountant averages $99k. more: city-by-city details.

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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 →

busy season management

fixing the tax system: accountants sound off

survey: overhauling taxes was suggested.

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you can do something. join thousands of other cpas, enrolled agents, financial planners and other tax practitioners in contributing opinions and ideas to the busy season barometer. let your voice be heard. join the survey; get the results

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

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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more busy season: who’d like a friend in the irs? | hello, irs? anybody home? | is the irs about to get beefed up?   |  tax season funnies: april fool is when?  |  wanna change the tax world?   |  how the irs hides its legal decisions  |  tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future  |  the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs  |  the irs free-file flop  |  the demise of schedule a?  |   tammy’s tale of tax season tardiness  |  how effective project management makes your life easier  |  survey: busy season goes sour  | the irs mess: taxpayer’s roadmap is a plumber’s nightmare

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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 →

busy season management

2 ways the eitc error rate is high

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source: national taxpayer advocate annual report to congress 2018 [click for larger image]
and 6 contributing factors.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

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.

more: who’d like a friend in the irs? | hello, irs? anybody home? | tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future | the demise of schedule a? | tax refund fury roils busy season
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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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surveys & research

six-minute survey: top business strategies for after busy season

after busy season, which strategic activity will be your top priority?

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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

h. fire some clients

i. other

yes, the survey should take only six minutes. (we timed it.)
and you’ll be the first to get the special topline executive summary, just for participating. as always, confidentiality assured.
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the five rules of smart tech

how the best managing partners stay on top of technology.

by marc rosenberg
quantum of paperless: the partner’s guide to accounting firm optimization

the duties of managing partners encompass a long list of critically important management functions. certainly, one of these is to ensure that technology has an optimal impact on the firm’s success, profitability, and efficiency.

more quantum of paperless: firms need ‘best practices’ manuals  |  optimize scanning procedures  |  why a digital tax workflow system is vital  | how long do you need that file?  |  don’t underestimate document management  | digital communications unify messaging  | hotspots the answer for field access  | check your bandwidth  | remote access requires planning  | proactively manage application updates  |

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this can be quite challenging because, unlike most managing partner duties, managing the technology function is a highly technical skill that most managing partners don’t have. so, they need to be smart. they need to know what they don’t know and rely on experts, both inside and outside of the firm, to guide them.

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busy season management

is the irs about to get beefed up?

today’s bonus question: lessons from tax season to apply to 2020?

trump proposes 5% boost to the irs budget, reversing years of cutbacks and declines.

busy season barometer
today’s bonus question: what are firms learning from tax season 2019, that they’ll apply in 2020?
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by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

after many years of increasing austerity—and some would say crippling austerity—the irs may have bottomed out. despite broad cuts proposed in the overall 2020 federal budget, president trump has included an additional $362 million—a five percent increase—for the agency that gathers the funds that keep the united states in business.

more busy season: tax season funnies: april fool is when?  |  wanna change the tax world?   |  how the irs hides its legal decisions  |  tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future  |  the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs  |  the irs free-file flop  |  protect your clients’ assets  |  the demise of schedule a?  |  tammy’s tale of tax season tardiness  |  how effective project management makes your life easier  |  survey: busy season goes sour   |  when clients cash out: four smart financial moves

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if congress approves the budget as proposed (and that’s bound to be an exciting story), the irs can begin—just begin—to recover some of what has lost over the last decade or so.

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politics & government

who’d like a friend in the irs?

four recommendations for congress.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

do you dare dream the impossible dream? try dreaming this one: you call the irs.

more: hello, irs? anybody home? | wanna change the tax world? | tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future | the big free-file flop | the demise of schedule a? | survey: busy season goes sour | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | tax refund fury roils busy season
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on the second ring, an operator answers. you tell him you’re a tax preparer. he hears your question and immediately passes your call to the right person in the right department.
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politics & government

who pays the auditors?

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how the pcaob could assure real independence.

by kayleigh padar
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间

is the u.s. ready to move to a third-party payer system for audits?

the author of an article in the influential new york state society’s cpa journal magazine says the time has come to bring the discussion into the open.

in the article, michael doron, ph.d, cpa, an associate professor in the department of accounting and information systems at california state university in northridge, examines relationships between auditors and the public in countries which have more regulation, the results of an experiment with a third-party payer and how the united states government handles similar regulation in other industries.

although he recognizes changing this process could be seen as “politically radical,” evidence shows it could work. organizations such as the public accounting oversight board (pcaob) already regulates the american auditing profession. in addition to being seen as radical, he acknowledges the shift would be a “tremendous change.” read more →

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hello, irs? anybody home?

portrait of an angry man yelling on the phoneone solution is modeled on 311 service.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

here’s the understatement of the day, if not the century, from the tax advocacy service’s annual report to congress 2019:

taxpayers often have difficulty locating irs personnel who can provide accurate and responsive information regarding their cases

we’d be tempted to say, “well, duh” if it weren’t such a serious issue.

more: wanna change the tax world? | tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future | the big free-file flop | survey: busy season goes sour | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding
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how serious? as the tas report points out, “although taxpayers are required by law to pay their duly owed taxes, they are also the agency’s ‘customers.’ the agency’s failure to adequately engage these customers cannot cause taxpayers to take their business elsewhere, but it will jeopardize the voluntary compliance on which the u.s tax system depends.”
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how the irs hides its legal decisions

irs chief counsel office charged with intentionally evading its responsibilities to the public

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

like the universe itself, the internal revenue code keeps expanding toward infinity. in that its more than 2,600 pages are unclear in spots, there are an additional several thousand pages of rules and regulations. and just to clarify all that, there are tens of thousands of pages of court decisions.

more: tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future  | the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs  | the big free-file flop | the demise of schedule a? | refunds still up, but only by 0.7% | survey: busy season goes sour | tax refunds up 1.7% | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | tax refund fury roils busy season | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding

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how many pages in all? no one knows. knowing, in fact, is impossible because in the time it takes to add them all up, their number increases. that’s why 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 believes it’s so critically important to a fair and well-functioning tax system that the irs office of chief counsel (occ) be held accountable for disclosing technical advice promptly. unfortunately, the occ seems to disagree. read more →

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tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future

“thirty percent of tax services will be obsolete in three years.”

robert hockensmith talks about tax season 2019 on local tv news in phoenix.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

this year’s tax season is giving tax preparers a taste of the future—a future where tax returns are both simpler and more complex.

according to data streaming into the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer survey, tax practitioners are just beginning to get a handle on the radical changes wrought by the tax cuts and jobs act—not just the technical changes to the tax code but the resulting changes to the business of tax preparation.

more: the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs  | the big free-file flop | the demise of schedule a? | refunds still up, but only by 0.7% | survey: busy season goes sour | tax refunds up 1.7% | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | tax refund fury roils busy season | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding

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robert f. hockensmith, cpa, ea, in phoenix, ariz., and a website site notably named azmoneyguy.com, offers a variety of tax and non-tax services, sums it up thus: “thirty percent of tax preparation will be obsolete in three years. clients will want advice and tax resolution more than preparation for 50 percent of taxpayers. and only 50 percent of all tax returns will be prepared by professional tax preparers.”

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