irs urged to form tax preparer strategy

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taxpayer advocate says it’s long overdue.

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every year by legal mandate, the national taxpayer advocate, who heads the taxpayer advocacy service within the irs, files a report to congress. the report identifies problems within the irs and offers recommendations to solve them.

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this year, the acting director of the tas, bridget t. roberts, has identified the lack of a comprehensive strategy for the tax practitioner community as one of the irs’s most serious problems. although 80 million americans depend on tax preparers to do their civic duty, the irs’s efforts to serve practitioners is focused mostly on misconduct issues, not on helping them get the job done.
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5 small leaks that can sink a tax season

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by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide

some people are micromanagers and anal with details. others are big-picture managers, letting details take care of themselves.  neither is completely effective and both disciplines need to be balanced.

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there is a time for details and a time for big-picture thinking. when setting up procedures and processes it is essential that all details be considered and planned for. once the process is set up, there should be brief but continuous monitoring. and then the big-picture thinking should take over – that is where you will make your money.
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data points down as tax season opens

data chartdiys, refunds are up.

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by beth bellor

filings were behind last year’s marks as tax season opened, according to the irs, and pros handled about 35 percent of e-filings.

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the internal revenue service received 15.8 million individual income tax returns for the week ending jan. 31 – the first of the season and just five days long – down by 1.6 percent from the year before. it had processed 12.9 million returns, down 2.7 percent, for a processing rate of 82 percent.
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top tech choices for the virtual firm

why we choose what we choose.

by jody grunden

the tools that are used by a distributed firm with remote clients are going to vary greatly from those of a traditional brick-and-mortar firm.

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every tool we consider or use has to be cloud-based. nothing can be restricted to a single computer or location.
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managing difficult personalities in the workplace

angry boss in chair staring down at tiny businessman5 “usual suspects” and how to manage them.

by steven e. sacks

let’s admit it: not everyone in a cpa firm can be your cup of tea. this is because of the different experiences your co-workers have, their cultural differences, biases, personal agendas and of course, diverse personalities.

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and the challenges faced by these differences are not limited to senior leadership or those who function in a supervisory role. what types are the usual suspects?
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