{"id":59438,"date":"2019-04-12t13:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-12t17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/48e130086c.nxcli.net\/?p=59438"},"modified":"2019-04-22t23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23t03:53:06","slug":"who-needs-bad-tax-preparers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2019\/04\/12\/who-needs-bad-tax-preparers\/","title":{"rendered":"why shouldn\u2019t all tax practitioners need licenses?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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does a 90% error rate alarm anyone?<\/strong><\/p>\n

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research<\/em><\/p>\n

america needs tax preparers. without them \u2026 well, it\u2019s hard to imagine how people would calculate any more than the most rudimentary returns.<\/p>\n

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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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\nlast year, the internal revenue service processed over 150 million individual returns. over half of them \u2013 almost 80 million taxpayers \u2013 relied on paid professionals to calculate their taxes and fill out their returns.<\/p>\n

but here\u2019s another shocking fact: of those paid professionals, more than half were neither cpas nor enrolled agents nor attorneys. in other words, they were not subject to any irs regulation whatsoever.<\/p>\n

anybody can do it<\/strong><\/p>\n

what does it take to be an \u201cunenrolled\u201d tax preparer? a pulse will suffice. a pen would be handy. competence optional.<\/p>\n

unlike truck drivers, plumbers, cooks and hairdressers, tax preparers need no certification whatsoever. anybody can do it \u2026 even if they don\u2019t know how to do it.<\/p>\n

that\u2019s a scary thought \u2013 that more than half of all taxpayers rely on \u201cprofessionals\u201d who don\u2019t necessarily know the difference between a 1040, a .40 and wd-40.<\/p>\n

the problem is real. the government accountability office confirmed this. it had some undercover auditors take a fake tax situation to 19 randomly selected tax preparation offices. these were local offices of chains that had at least 10 storefronts. of the 19, only two calculated the correct amount of the refund. the national consumer law center conducted similar \u201cmystery shopper visits\u201d and came up with similar results.<\/p>\n

so 90 percent of them got it wrong. now extrapolate those findings across these numbers. in 2017:<\/p>\n