covid chaos turns busy season 2020 from bad to worse.
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last year—the good old days!—busy season seemed to be about as bad as it could get. congress enacted the tax cuts and jobs act without explaining how it was to be enacted, and then changed some things. and then the irs shut down before the rules could be set and the new forms and schedules made available. and all of a sudden it was april 15.
more on the 2020 season: the mystery of 10 million missing tax returns | tax pro e-filings down 20 percent | irs web traffic doubles over year-ago | covid drowns irs in new filings | 2020 tax season comes to a screeching halt | the tax season 2020 dumpster fire | tax pros fall behind 6.2% in returns filed
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tax practitioners had little good to say about 2019. according to last year’s 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer, 46 percent said 2019 was worse than the previous year. only 13 percent thought it was “much better.”
that was then.
this is now. and, now is worse.
deadlines could change. so could options.
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the taxpayer advocacy service’s mission is to make life easier for taxpayers, but when it succeeds, it alleviates the burden on tax practitioners as well.
more: flexibility in a time of pandemic | what are irs faqs worth? | the top six irs #fails this tax season (so far)
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with that mission in mind, the tas has set itself a serious series of nine objectives for fiscal year 2021. each one touches on the services of cpas and tax practitioners, so it’s worthwhile to follow how successful the tas is.
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why right networks’ acquisition of rootworks may be just what the doctor ordered
with rick telberg
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the accounting world shifted a little with the acquisition by right networks, a cloud-hosting vendor, of rootworks, a technology platform provider to cpa firms.
though conceived before the pandemic, the deal was closed as the first wave of coronavirus was crashing against the shores of the u.s. and it may be a sign of the times under pandemic conditions, as accountants — and, indeed, business in general — race for new technology solutions and business models.
see: right networks acquires rootworks
in this exclusive interview with 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间, right networks ceo joel hughes and rootworks founder darren root, explain the reasons for the deal, and their forecast for the future under covid. warning: their forecast for the future under covid is not pretty.
but the combination of the two companies may augur hold clues to the future of the profession.
transcript
here’s the full transcript, only lightly edited:
tax advocate asks irs to cut taxpayers a little slack.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
the novel coronavirus has made a mess of many things, including deadlines. the u.s. tax court closed on march 19, 2020, leaving taxpayers confused about what has to be filed by when, and often tax practitioners aren’t real sure either.
more: what are irs faqs worth? | the top six irs #fails this tax season (so far)
here is a summary of key developments that tax clients may need to be aware of:
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