how to reduce tax return errors

error stampedwe must turn unseen clients into human beings in the eyes of staff.

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

i wasn’t initially certain this post was necessary. i covered a lot of material in my first book and other posts.

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however, last night my sleep was haunted by the ghosts of tax return errors past, present and future. i saw my coffin rolling down the chute to the cremation chamber. i was inside shouting that i had one more checklist to complete before my life was done.
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teaching the meaning of ‘done’

angry boss in chair staring down at tiny businessmannot to be confused with the dreaded “done but.”

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

in my last book, as with this one, i recommended hiring younger staff. in that book, i cautioned that you might have to teach very simple tasks like breathing and using the bathroom to your newbies. www.g005e.com posted an excerpt with my advice.

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one reader posted that she didn’t believe it was the responsibility of an admin department to teach bathroom use. she was new to this hot new writing technique called sarcasm. she did a great job making my point that you have to teach your staff a lot of really basic things.
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how we killed the tax season client meeting

man working hard at office deskyep, there’s an app for that!

by frank stitely
the relentless cpa

what did dorothy and her friends fear in the wizard of oz? “lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” dorothy feared the wrong things if she’s a partner in a cpa firm. we don’t see much wildlife in our offices during tax season unless you count fast food delivery people and the occasional crazy client.

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we should really fear the events that destroy our priorities and drain hours from productive work. meetings and phone calls and emails, oh my! let’s look at why these communication methods are so destructive from a practice management standpoint.
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don’t get burned by these ppp pitfalls

three ways to get it wrong and only have one chance to get it right.


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by stephen nelson

over the last few months, i’ve answered hundreds of questions about ppp loans. and i’ve written a short e-book, “maximizing ppp loan forgiveness” for the accountants who will help small businesses with their forgiveness applications.

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and, here’s an insight from all this frenzied ppp activity: big surprises await many borrowers.

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software saves the 2020 tax season

survey says tax practitioners have never been so satisfied with their tax prep applications.

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what’s the best word to describe the infamous 2020 tax season?

brutal? infectious? interesting? perpetual? weird?

one word works for everybody: unprecedented. a pandemic. a lockdown. new legislation. new rules. federal programs. federal disasters. bankruptcies.

it seems the only thing that’s gone right is software.

the bottom line: tax practitioners have never been more satisfied with their tax apps.

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