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call the irs for answers? good luck!
irs insists your call is important. but the numbers don’t add up.
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nothing kills a day like a phone call to the internal revenue service. a caller put on hold during the busy season literally has enough time to go out to lunch and come back before anyone answers.
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unfortunately, given the inhuman complexity of the irs tax code, taxpayers often need to call for guidance or advice. last year, 99.3 million did so, and only 28.6 million of them actually hung on long enough to talk with someone. over the course of the year, the average time it took to get connected was 16.2 minutes.
slow start for tax pro e-filing
tax pro market share down 409,000 from year-ago.
by beth bellor
as of the week ending feb. 7, the latest data available, the internal revenue service had received 28.7 million individual income tax returns, down 0.4 percent from the same week last year. it had processed 27.5 million, down 2.1 percent.
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the irs had processed 96.1 percent of returns received.
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irs urged to form tax preparer strategy
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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tax season is hacker season
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applied innovations
businesses of all sizes are targets from what has become the most vicious, innovative, and lucrative criminal endeavors we’ve ever witnessed. and tax practitioners are particularly easy targets.
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the financial services industry is perhaps the most targeted because of the value of data it possesses. and the most frequently targeted are cpas and those who prepare tax returns.
data points down as tax season opens
diys, refunds are up.
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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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accountants cautiously bullish on the economy
“local optimism” a bit better than last year.
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when cpas talk about the economy, people listen. they listen because accountants have their finger on the pulse of the economy. they look at real numbers all day. they look at where the numbers are coming from and where they’re probably going. it’s what they do.
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for that reason, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间’ 2020 busy season barometer steps back from strictly tax issues to ask how things look economically. the answers are always interesting.
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solo practitioners rely more heavily on ipads or other tablets to complete work-related tasks more than in any other size practice.
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the fight for new tax clients
and will refunds reverse their downward trend?
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the irs is about to roll out its first filing statistics of 2020, but before it does, let’s recap 2019.
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first, the market share: how many individual income tax returns were filed, and how many of those were touched by accountants?
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survey results: tax pros forecast a better 2020
difficult clients? show them the door.
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survey: ranking the top tax software
thomson reuters’ ultratax takes #2.
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[survey results] tax pro’s upbeat on cusp of busy season
higher revenues and net profits. what’s not to like?
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it may be too soon to say for sure, but america’s tax pros think we might be coming up on a pretty good tax season – more clients, no big new tax rules, software up and running, staff up to speed on last year’s tax cuts and jobs act.
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granted, this is a comparison with last year, an annus horribilis that will go down in annals of accountancy. remember? a major overhaul of tax rules. a shortage of new forms. software suddenly obsolete. clients confused. and the irs shuttered for a government shutdown.
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use tax return prep for training and growth
plus: 10 reasons to improve your review process.
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how to review tax returns: the field-tested update
tax season is a microcosm of everything done in an accounting practice.
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one of the primary concerns of a business is having the proper processes and quality control procedures.
choosing how to properly use the reviewers’ time and interface them with the staff can contribute immensely to a smooth tax season.
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