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the irs changes how it tallies website traffic.
by beth bellor
tax professionals have held the e-filing edge over diyers this season, and now they’ve surpassed their own 2024 rate for the first time.
the irs received 89.6 million individual income tax returns, down 0.8 percent from the comparable period in 2024 ending march 28. it processed 88.5 million returns, down 0.3 percent. tax professionals are holding on to a half-point lead in market share over diyers, with about 51.3 percent of total returns filed so far this year against 51.8 percent a year ago. read more →

do you appreciate what you have?
by ed mendlowitz
tax season opportunity guide
clients are our customers who pay our salaries and present us with stimulating opportunities, allowing us to grow.
there is no such thing as a bad or nuisance client – although there are clients who sometimes do bad or nuisance things.
following is a listing of what makes a good client.
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do you know your turnaround time?
by frank stitely
the relentless cpa
todd rundgren sang, “i don’t want to work. i just wanna bang on the drum all day.”
i agree with half of that. i don’t want to work. however, i want someone else to bang on the drum all day for me. i’m not that ambitious.
the key to achieving hall of fame-level laziness is delegation.
if i have no ambition to do anything, but want things to get done, someone else must do them. similarly, effective practice management is putting the right people in the right places accomplishing the right tasks at the right times. that’s a pretty damn good definition of effective laziness as well. there’s a subtle genius in that.
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plus seven things you should not do.
by martin bissett
passport to partnership
what makes a written proposal become accepted by the potential client – every time?
proposal writing is a micro-science in its own right but here are the proven principles that it takes to get proposals accepted.
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