tax season

why shouldn’t all tax practitioners need licenses?

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does a 90% error rate alarm anyone?

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america needs tax preparers. without them … well, it’s hard to imagine how people would calculate any more than the most rudimentary returns.

more: data divers profile taxpayer filing styles | who’d like a friend in the irs? | wanna change the tax world? | the big free-file flop | survey: busy season goes sour | lessons learned: how the federal shutdown hit busy season 2019 | taxpayer advocate slams congress over funding
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the funding of the government would fall to a fraction of what is needed to sustain the nation. tax preparers are an essential link between the government and those who fund it.
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data divers profile taxpayer filing styles

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understanding retail, software & online tax service users.

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with options like retail walk-in tax prep, software services, or online filing, how do taxpayers decide? the data scientists at the consumer research agency exponential.com dove into the data to uncover the factors that may make someone more (+%) or less (- %) likely to utilize one of three common filing methods. read more →

2 ways the eitc error rate is high

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source: national taxpayer advocate annual report to congress 2018 [click for larger image]

and 6 contributing factors.

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the earned income tax credit is considered one of the most efficient federal programs for sustaining people with inadequate income. part of the eitc’s efficiency results from the lack of an intermediary checking the qualifications of those who receive it.

more: who’d like a friend in the irs? | hello, irs? anybody home? | tax season 2019 serves up a taste of the future | the demise of schedule a? | tax refund fury roils busy season
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the tax return itself is the application for eitc. there is no other process, no pre-return vetting, no social workers. the closest thing to an intermediary is the tax preparer who makes sure the correct income is reported and the correct forms filled out.
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refund amounts remain lower than 2018

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cumulative through week ended march 29

tax pros handling 54.3% of e-filings, down 2 points from year ago.

by beth bellor
卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

the pace of 2019 remains behind that of 2018 on most counts as the tax season stumbles to a close.

more: who’d like a friend in the irs? | hello, irs? anybody home? | tax pro e-filing off 2.7% from last year’s pace | tax professionals file 38 million returns | refunds still up, but only by 0.7%
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the irs had received 92.9 million individual income tax returns as of the week ending march 29, the last data available, down 1.4 percent from the same period last year. it had processed 90.3 million returns, down 2 percent.
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is the irs about to get beefed up?

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today’s bonus question: lessons from tax season to apply to 2020?

trump proposes 5% boost to the irs budget, reversing years of cutbacks and declines.

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today’s bonus question: what are firms learning from tax season 2019, that they’ll apply in 2020?
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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.

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who’d like a friend in the irs?

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four recommendations for congress.

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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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hello, irs? anybody home?

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portrait of an angry man yelling on the phoneone 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
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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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