Training your tax preparers can be a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. We’ve compiled a list of important tax preparer training categories. Ranging from software and tax law training to online security, with our list of best practices for tax office training, we hope this will help to ensure that you and […]

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 […]

Tax Preparers will have to complete 15 hours of continuing education starting in 2012.  These 15 hours will be broken down into 10 hours of federal tax law topics, 3 hours of tax law updates, and 2 hours on ethics.  Courses will be provided by numerous IRS approved organizations, and Federal Direct will provide these […]

Be aware, the IRS stated today that it has not made any determination on what materials will be considered for the 2011 tax preparer testing requirements.  Many tax training programs are currently being released trying to capitalize on preparers anxiety relating to this new requirement, you should be very wary of purchasing  materials this year.  […]