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tax questions up, filings down

chart of irs filing season statistics for week ending feb. 19, 2016

tax pros doing less than half of e-filings.

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visits to the irs website are up 13 percent, but three weeks into the tax season, almost everything else was down.

irs.gov saw 20 million more visitors than last year at this time, 175,958,748 as of feb. 19, compared to 155,780,478 the same week in 2015.

also up this year are e-filing receipts from self-preparers, with nearly 24.2 million received, up 3.1 percent from last year’s 23.4 million.
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outlook & analysis

strong industry growth fuels wage and retention issues for firms

cpatrendlines jobs report tilt
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as growth breeds competition, job-seekers gain the upper hand.

what drives staff turnover?
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the nation’s tax and accounting firms are enjoying one of their most prolonged periods of growth since 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 started keeping track with the careers and hiring outlook survey 15 years ago, but pressures are building in staff retention and compensation.

this month’s 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 jobs report covers:

  • current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, tax, payroll and cpa segments of the industry.
  • average hourly wages for key segments.
  • typical hours worked per week.
  • and trends concerning women in the accounting workforce.

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is tax season the new fraud season?

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and what are tax professionals doing about it?

busy season barometer
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how are accountants confronting identity theft concerns this year?
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with data breaches and stolen identities dominating the tax season headlines, today only about a third of americans say identity theft is a concern to them, according to a survey by idt911. meanwhile, about a third of some 600 tax professionals participating in the annual 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer tracking polls are reporting significant concerns about client security, privacy and identity theft issues.

top 10 key findings from the taxpayer survey:

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leadership

the robo-cpa: jim sikich prepares for disruptive technologies

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sikich: today only 20 percent of revenue comes from audit, and 15 percent from tax. the rest comes from management advisory services, led by technology, which accounted for about 50 percent of its total revenue.

sikich_logoif ibm’s watson is smart enough to play chess or jeopardy, can robotic tax prep and audits be far behind?

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the technology revolution is on pace to change the accounting profession much more than it already has, with the potential to replace accountants in work that ranges from tax preparation to high-level business consulting, warns james a. sikich, chief executive and managing partner of the sikich accounting and consulting firm in naperville, ill.

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