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is tax season the new fraud season?

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and what are tax professionals doing about it?

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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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survey results: client retention drives today’s pricing strategies

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maximizing revenue comes second. profits, third.

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the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 pricing strategy study
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raising rates is risky. but so is not raising rates. you have to raise them right and at the right time. and not on a willy-nilly whim. you need to think about it. you need a rationale.

in search of reasonable rationales—rationales that work—卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 is asking practitioners for the rationale behind their pricing strategy. and they are being generous in their response. most say that strategies were lacking or could be improved. read more →

survey results: chaos in tax & accounting pricing

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consistently inconsistent strategies.

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if there’s one especially surprising result from the new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 price strategies and trends survey, it’s that over a third of responding accountants say they lack a consistent strategy for setting rates.

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but to put it another way, they have a consistent strategy of adjusting rates as necessary to accommodate the needs of both the cpa firm and any given individual client.

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survey results: busy? time is the solution, not the problem

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hey, just because you get a nice new watch for christmas doesn’t mean you’re going to have more time when busy season rolls around. quite to the contrary, it’s only going to tell you how little time you have.

time is what busy’s all about. so if you can manage time, you can manage busy. and if you manage time well enough –  better than last busy season – then maybe next busy season will be more of a breeze-through season. or at least not a pound-head-on-wall season.

the 2015 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season survey asked a good question: “what are your best time management tips for busy season?”

and we got some good answers. the survey turned up all sorts of uncontrollable problems, from the complexity of the affordable care act to the recalcitrance of computers. but of all the stuff that happened, time was the one that everyone could a) predict and b) manage a little better.

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