Tax Talk

The IRS announced today that it has put in place new “interim procedures” designed to “help protect the integrity” of the ITIN process.  During this interim period, no ITINs will be accepted or assigned without original documentation, such as passports and birth certificates, or certified copies of these documents from the issuing agency. Even Certifying […]

We will be hosting a webinar this Friday at 5:30pm Eastern covering Circular 230 and tax preparer ethics.  Attendance to this webinar and 2 CE credits are FREE for Federal Direct partners.  The webinar will last for approximately 100 minutes and will attendance will provide 2 Ethics CE credits toward 2012 continuing education credits for […]

The Department of Homeland Security has announced a new initiative regarding discretion on a case by case basis with younger illegal immigrants. Many illegal immigrants are brought over as children and live the lives of immigrants even though many of them have spent their entire lives in the United States, in some cases, even graduating […]

US citizens working and living abroad received an extension to file of 2 months.  That deadline is just around the corner, June 15th.  Be sure to inform any of your clients in this category of filers!

IRS will be conducting Disaster Recovery exercises on Saturday June 9th and again on Saturday June 16th .  They will not be processing returns beginning at 6PM Eastern on Friday June 8th, and they intend to bring the system back on line at 8:00 AM Eastern on Monday June 11th.  The Same procedure and timeline […]