Reminder: Tonight’s Webinar – Self Employment & Preparing Schedule C

If you have not yet signed up for tonight’s webinar be sure to do so quickly.  This evenings continuing education live webinar will be covering filing tax returns for self employed individuals and the proper use of Schedule C.  Space is limited.  You can sign up by clicking here: Self Employment & Preparing Schedule C […]

Reminder: Tonight’s Webinar Covering Filing With Dependents

Just a friendly reminder that tonight’s webinar will be held at 5:30pm Eastern.  We will be covering Filing With Dependents, and will provide 3 IRS CE credits toward general tax topics.  If you have not yet signed up for a  continuing education package please contact us at .  You can register for the webinar by […]

Tax Preparer Implications of the Supreme Court Upholding Affordable Care Act

This morning the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.  The most debated issue was the individual coverage mandate element of the law which levies penalties to taxpayers who are required to purchase insurance coverage but fail to do so.  Administration of the Affordable Care Act will be serviced by the IRS; […]

IRS Newswire: First Registered Tax Return Preparer Certificates

The IRS has announced that it has begun to provide test results to tax return preparers who have taken the new return preparer competency test. The competency test to get your new designation, Registered Tax Return Preparer, is a 120 question test which has a perfect score of 500. Preparers must score a 350 or […]

Fraudulent Tax Offices and Check Cashing Stores Targeted by IRS

The first week of the tax season has seen some interesting actions taken by the IRS.  They have actively taken aim at both high fraud tax offices and check cashing facilities that seem to consistently be in the middle of of these problematic returns.  In prior years, the IRS has taken more of a reactionary […]

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