six-minute survey: top business strategies for after busy season

after busy season, which strategic activity will be your top priority?

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b. focus on marketing and getting new business

c. learning from busy season ’19

d. investing in new technology

refund amounts remain lower than 2018

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cumulative through week ended march 29

tax pros handling 54.3% of e-filings, down 2 points from year ago.

by beth bellor
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

the pace of 2019 remains behind that of 2018 on most counts as the tax season stumbles to a close.

more: who’d like a friend in the irs? | hello, irs? anybody home? | tax pro e-filing off 2.7% from last year’s pace | tax professionals file 38 million returns | refunds still up, but only by 0.7%
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the irs had received 92.9 million individual income tax returns as of the week ending march 29, the last data available, down 1.4 percent from the same period last year. it had processed 90.3 million returns, down 2 percent.
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is the irs about to get beefed up?

today’s bonus question: lessons from tax season to apply to 2020?

trump proposes 5% boost to the irs budget, reversing years of cutbacks and declines.

busy season barometer
today’s bonus question: what are firms learning from tax season 2019, that they’ll apply in 2020?
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by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

after many years of increasing austerity—and some would say crippling austerity—the irs may have bottomed out. despite broad cuts proposed in the overall 2020 federal budget, president trump has included an additional $362 million—a five percent increase—for the agency that gathers the funds that keep the united states in business.

more busy season: tax season funnies: april fool is when?  |  wanna change the tax world?   |  how the irs hides its legal decisions  |  tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future  |  the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs  |  the irs free-file flop  |  protect your clients’ assets  |  the demise of schedule a?  |  tammy’s tale of tax season tardiness  |  how effective project management makes your life easier  |  survey: busy season goes sour   |  when clients cash out: four smart financial moves

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if congress approves the budget as proposed (and that’s bound to be an exciting story), the irs can begin—just begin—to recover some of what has lost over the last decade or so.

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