surveys & research

percentages don’t tell whole irs filing story

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chart of irs filing data for the week ending march 23, 2018tax pros slightly behind last year’s pace, but still hold the edge in sheer numbers.

by beth bellor
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by many measures, this tax season is slightly ahead of 2017’s pace.

more on tax season: professionals losing the battle on e-filings to diyers | survey: new tax law roils busy season | david bergstein on tax season | tax accountants fill the breach of a failing irs | new tax law roils busy season 2018 | beware the ez way out  | when clients face ‘unreal’ irs audits
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the irs had received 85.7 million individual income tax returns by the week ending march 23, the latest data available. that’s up 0.5 percent from the same period last year.
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accounting hiring stalls; salaries hit new highs

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even as firms trim payrolls, especially in tax prep.

by beth bellor
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after heady gains, the accounting profession is doing some backsliding. how worried should we be?

more on jobs: tax prep services slash 10,000 jobs as busy season begins | all staffed up? new tax prep hiring stalls on eve of busy season | the myth of the staff shortage | wages up, headcounts down at tax & accounting firms
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in this report, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 analyzes:

  • current hiring trends in each of the bookkeeping, payroll, tax and cpa segments of the profession,
  • average hourly earnings for each segment,
  • average hours worked per week by segment and
  • trends regarding women in the accounting workforce.

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new tax law roils busy season 2018

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how savvy cpas turn confusion into new billings.

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by rick telberg
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the tax cut and jobs act won’t officially take effect until next year, but professionals are already reporting that it’s causing problems and depressing their forecasts for this year’s busy season results.

more on busy season: tax pros gain slight ground in e-filings   |  tax pros turning in only 39% of e-filings  |  beware the ez way out  |  irs #fails at online services spell problems for professionals  |  can the irs improve its phone service?  |  when clients face ‘unreal’ irs audits  |  irs warns about private debt collectors for tax season 2018

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early soundings from the annual 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer show that 33 percent of practitioners are forecasting more trouble this year than last year – and they blame it on the new tax law.

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when artificial intelligence gets real

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survey: 78 percent “would work with an a.i. manager if it meant a more balanced workload.”

by rick telberg
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there’s a brave new world rising, a world juiced up on artificial intelligence.

more on a.i.:  lessons for accountants from self-driving cars   |   how artificial intelligence will drive the next wave of merger mania   |   how artificial intelligence feeds accounting marketing 

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what’s it going to be like? what will a.i. be capable of? is it the dawn of a glorious new age of automation or a cat-5 storm cloud on the horizon?

卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 has some answers, and you might not like them.

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