tax season funnies: estate planning in ancient egypt
plus alligators discuss lawyers.
as collected by robert e. mckenzie
tax season
is the irs about to get beefed up?
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.
who’d like a friend in the irs?
four recommendations for congress.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
do you dare dream the impossible dream? try dreaming this one: you call the irs.
more: hello, irs? anybody home? | wanna change the tax world? | tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future | the big free-file flop | the demise of schedule a? | survey: busy season goes sour | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | tax refund fury roils busy season
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on the second ring, an operator answers. you tell him you’re a tax preparer. he hears your question and immediately passes your call to the right person in the right department.
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tax season funnies: april fool is when?
plus an april 15 carol. write a new verse and send it to us!
as collected by robert e. mckenzie
tax season funnies: what money can buy
plus the world’s oldest profession.
hello, irs? anybody home?
one solution is modeled on 311 service.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
here’s the understatement of the day, if not the century, from the tax advocacy service’s annual report to congress 2019:
taxpayers often have difficulty locating irs personnel who can provide accurate and responsive information regarding their cases
we’d be tempted to say, “well, duh” if it weren’t such a serious issue.
more: wanna change the tax world? | tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future | the big free-file flop | survey: busy season goes sour | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding
how serious? as the tas report points out, “although taxpayers are required by law to pay their duly owed taxes, they are also the agency’s ‘customers.’ the agency’s failure to adequately engage these customers cannot cause taxpayers to take their business elsewhere, but it will jeopardize the voluntary compliance on which the u.s tax system depends.”
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tax pro e-filing off 2.7% from last year’s pace
average refunds down 1%.
by beth bellor
wanna change the tax world?
should the april 15th irs extensions go automatic and paperless? the irs needs your feedback.
by eva rosenberg, ea
taxmama
vote yes or no
to add your voice to the discussion
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how the irs hides its legal decisions
irs chief counsel office charged with intentionally evading its responsibilities to the public
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
like the universe itself, the internal revenue code keeps expanding toward infinity. in that its more than 2,600 pages are unclear in spots, there are an additional several thousand pages of rules and regulations. and just to clarify all that, there are tens of thousands of pages of court decisions.
more: tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future | the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs | the big free-file flop | the demise of schedule a? | refunds still up, but only by 0.7% | survey: busy season goes sour | tax refunds up 1.7% | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | tax refund fury roils busy season | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding
how many pages in all? no one knows. knowing, in fact, is impossible because in the time it takes to add them all up, their number increases. that’s why 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 believes it’s so critically important to a fair and well-functioning tax system that the irs office of chief counsel (occ) be held accountable for disclosing technical advice promptly. unfortunately, the occ seems to disagree. read more →
tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future
“thirty percent of tax services will be obsolete in three years.”
robert hockensmith talks about tax season 2019 on local tv news in phoenix.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research
this year’s tax season is giving tax preparers a taste of the future—a future where tax returns are both simpler and more complex.
according to data streaming into the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer survey, tax practitioners are just beginning to get a handle on the radical changes wrought by the tax cuts and jobs act—not just the technical changes to the tax code but the resulting changes to the business of tax preparation.
more: the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs | the big free-file flop | the demise of schedule a? | refunds still up, but only by 0.7% | survey: busy season goes sour | tax refunds up 1.7% | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | tax refund fury roils busy season | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding
robert f. hockensmith, cpa, ea, in phoenix, ariz., and a website site notably named azmoneyguy.com, offers a variety of tax and non-tax services, sums it up thus: “thirty percent of tax preparation will be obsolete in three years. clients will want advice and tax resolution more than preparation for 50 percent of taxpayers. and only 50 percent of all tax returns will be prepared by professional tax preparers.”
the biggest reason fraudsters run rings around the irs
irs chases the wrong returns, delaying refunds, wasting resources.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间
let’s have a pity party! you’re invited.
let’s pity the internal revenue service for having to identify fraudulent tax returns and taxpayer identities.
more: the big free-file flop | the demise of schedule a? | refunds still up, but only by 0.7% | survey: busy season goes sour | tax refunds up 1.7% | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | tax refund fury roils busy season | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding
let’s pity the taxpayer whose tax return gets flagged as fraudulent—or her stolen identity that doesn’t.
and let’s pity the tax preparer stuck between the legitimate taxpayer and the fumbling, under-funded, well-intentioned bureaucracy of the irs. read more →
tax professionals file 38 million returns
more than diy’ers, but still behind last year’s pace.
by beth bellor
the irs free-file flop
fix it, or lose it.
by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间
can you believe that 70 percent of all u.s. taxpayers could be using free file, yet only 2.5 percent actually are? did we mention “free?”
more busy season: 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 | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | the irs mess: taxpayer’s roadmap is a plumber’s nightmare | fixing the irs: tax professionals speak out | tax refund fury roils busy season
the reasons are mostly a mystery, but we found five major problems and seven ways to improve the program. if all else fails, even it’s backers agree: give up.