survey: busy season looking good

how’s your busy season so far? some 59% report better than last year, with 18% calling it “much better.”

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some are raising fees and trimming unprofitable clients.

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as we get close to the end of the tax season, tax pros are telling us that for the first time in years, things are going pretty well.

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according to the late-march stats of the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer, with data streaming in from over 500 practitioners across the country, a heady 18 percent say this year is much better than last year, and another 41 percent acknowledge that this year is at least somewhat better.
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irs has big plans for its $80 billion

the cbo projects $180 billion more in revenues.

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the irs has revealed its strategic operating plan for fy2023-2031, the period when the service will expend the $80 billion infusion granted by the inflation reduction act.

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the sop is big, but is it big in the right places?
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trump indicted. and, yes, there’s a tax angle

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“the participants also took steps that mischaracterized, for tax purposes, the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.”

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statement by district attorney

district attorney bragg announces 34-count felony indictment of former president donald j. trump

  • the charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. all factual recitations are derived from documents filed in court and statements made on the record in court.

manhattan district attorney alvin l. bragg, jr. today announced the indictment of donald j. trump, 76, for falsifying new york business records in order to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from american voters before and after the 2016 election. during the election, trump and others employed a “catch and kill” scheme to identify, purchase, and bury negative information about him and boost his electoral prospects. trump then went to great lengths to hide this conduct, causing dozens of false entries in business records to conceal criminal activity, including attempts to violate state and federal election laws.

trump is charged in a new york state supreme court indictment with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

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can’t irs tax pro accounts do more?

profile of man shouting tax and other, starred-out wordsof course it can. here are five recommendations.

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in 2021, the irs rolled out its tax pro account program, a relatively quick response to the complications brought down by covid-19, not to mention the years of dwindling service brought down by congressional budget cuts.

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the purpose of tax pro accounts is to allow practitioners to perform basic services online for their clients.

unfortunately, the services enabled by the program were and still are rather limited. many of the services that individual taxpayers themselves can access online are not available to their tax accountants.
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hello? irs? anybody home?

pulling people off the phones: not helpful.

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the latest results from the 2023 cpatrendlines busy season barometer showed a significant shift in practitioners’ main concern this year. it used to be “late or unprepared clients.”

more: taxpayer assistance centers need upgrade | on business outlook, cpas are confident … and concerned | at the irs, short on staff means short on service | tax pros offer advice for small businesses | busy season barometer finds many cpas in transition | more cpas see worsening economy | has early tax season optimism peaked? | marchternity: just say ‘no’
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now “irs operations” has surged to first place, cited by 53 percent of respondents.

ouch, right? the agency charged with collecting taxes is the biggest problem for those who file tax returns for a living.
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