irs defanged by 20 years of budget cuts

irs criminal prosecutions over the past 20 years / trac

prosecutions down 16 percent in 2014.

budget cuts are clearly undermining  the nation’s ability to collect tax revenue and enforce tax laws, widening already gaping budget holes, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 data show.

for instance, tax prosecutions, which peaked during the early clinton administration, bottomed during the bush administration. read more →

tax season urgency: it’s a bad thing

six ways to eliminate stress and potential mistakes. by ed mendlowitz tax season opportunity guide urgency creates stress and pressure and leads to mistakes and improper perceptions of the quality of the work. planning and execution reduce urgency. one way … continued

three amazing cpas who want to do tax returns for free

creating awesome value to become the go-to business strategist.

by hitendra patil
pransform inc.

as part of my role in calling on cpa firms, i meet with as many as a hundred in a month. but three of them absolutely blew me away. let me tell you why.

they all share one common factor in their thinking, which is creating awesome value for their clients. all of them provide the same standard services to their clients that an accounting and tax firm would. what happens beyond those standard services is what separates them from the rest of the world. and they use a simple trick to create awesome value. read more →

tax pro e-filing is holding steady

the irs has processed more than 97 percent of returns received.

tax professionals e-filed over 23.7 million returns through feb. 20, 2015, down 3.9 percent from the nearly 24.7 million returns e-filed by the same time in 2014.

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