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more accountants see their businesses weakening under competitive pressures.

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competition among tax and accounting firms is clearly intensifying, according to new readings from the annual 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer. it’s a stark warning.

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the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 annual busy season barometer asks a lot of questions about how things are going at tax and accounting firms, and the results are always interesting for comparative purposes and, sometimes, advice from peers.

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call the irs for answers? good luck!

irs levels of service for total enterprise, accounts management, consolidated acs, and installment agreement telephone lines for fiscal years 2015–2019

irs insists your call is important. but the numbers don’t add up.

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nothing kills a day like a phone call to the internal revenue service. a caller put on hold during the busy season literally has enough time to go out to lunch and come back before anyone answers.

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unfortunately, given the inhuman complexity of the irs tax code, taxpayers often need to call for guidance or advice. last year, 99.3 million did so, and only 28.6 million of them actually hung on long enough to talk with someone. over the course of the year, the average time it took to get connected was 16.2 minutes.

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irs urged to form tax preparer strategy

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taxpayer advocate says it’s long overdue.

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every year by legal mandate, the national taxpayer advocate, who heads the taxpayer advocacy service within the irs, files a report to congress. the report identifies problems within the irs and offers recommendations to solve them.

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this year, the acting director of the tas, bridget t. roberts, has identified the lack of a comprehensive strategy for the tax practitioner community as one of the irs’s most serious problems. although 80 million americans depend on tax preparers to do their civic duty, the irs’s efforts to serve practitioners is focused mostly on misconduct issues, not on helping them get the job done.
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tax season is hacker season

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by jess coburn
applied innovations

businesses of all sizes are targets from what has become the most vicious, innovative, and lucrative criminal endeavors we’ve ever witnessed. and tax practitioners are particularly easy targets.

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the financial services industry is perhaps the most targeted because of the value of data it possesses. and the most frequently targeted are cpas and those who prepare tax returns.

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data points down as tax season opens

data chartdiys, refunds are up.

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by beth bellor

filings were behind last year’s marks as tax season opened, according to the irs, and pros handled about 35 percent of e-filings.

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the internal revenue service received 15.8 million individual income tax returns for the week ending jan. 31 – the first of the season and just five days long – down by 1.6 percent from the year before. it had processed 12.9 million returns, down 2.7 percent, for a processing rate of 82 percent.
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accountants cautiously bullish on the economy

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“local optimism” a bit better than last year.

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when cpas talk about the economy, people listen. they listen because accountants have their finger on the pulse of the economy. they look at real numbers all day. they look at where the numbers are coming from and where they’re probably going. it’s what they do.

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for that reason, 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间’ 2020 busy season barometer steps back from strictly tax issues to ask how things look economically. the answers are always interesting.

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the fight for new tax clients

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and will refunds reverse their downward trend?

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by beth bellor

the irs is about to roll out its first filing statistics of 2020, but before it does, let’s recap 2019.

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first, the market share: how many individual income tax returns were filed, and how many of those were touched by accountants?
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[survey results] tax pro’s upbeat on cusp of busy season

higher revenues and net profits. what’s not to like?

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it may be too soon to say for sure, but america’s tax pros think we might be coming up on a pretty good tax season – more clients, no big new tax rules, software up and running, staff up to speed on last year’s tax cuts and jobs act.

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granted, this is a comparison with last year, an annus horribilis that will go down in annals of accountancy. remember? a major overhaul of tax rules. a shortage of new forms. software suddenly obsolete. clients confused. and the irs shuttered for a government shutdown.
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use tax return prep for training and growth

man and two women talking in officeplus: 10 reasons to improve your review process.

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by ed mendlowitz
how to review tax returns: the field-tested update

tax season is a microcosm of everything done in an accounting practice.

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one of the primary concerns of a business is having the proper processes and quality control procedures.

choosing how to properly use the reviewers’ time and interface them with the staff can contribute immensely to a smooth tax season.
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the only three metrics you need to measure staffers

a totally virtual firm takes a new tack.

by jody grunden
summit cpa group

if you want to grow your accounting firm, it’s important to evaluate the effectiveness of your process on a regular basis. you want to be aware of what’s working well and what’s not. you also want to continually be improving upon your services over time.

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there are three things you can specifically monitor when it comes to the effectiveness of your team. here’s how we do it at summit cpa group. maybe these ideas will work for you too.
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is the irs about to get beefed up?

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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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.

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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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