Tax Professionals, Here Are The 2020 Deadlines You Need To Keep Track
It’s tax season once again! For tax professionals, the next three to four months can be the busiest time of the year. Aside from meeting with both old and new clients, you need to gather your clients’ financial documents, start preparing income taxes and file prepared...
5 Mistakes Preparers Make When Buying Tax Software
1. Refusing To Adopt Cloud-based Software The tax preparation software industry is probably one of the slowest industries to embrace cloud technology for software needs. There are items to be concerned about, however, if banking, finance, trading, healthcare and other...
Refund Timing for Earned Income Tax Credit and Additional Tax Credit Filers
The tax industry stakeholders are projecting refunds will begin hitting accounts mid-week, Feb 22nd. This is just an estimate and not a guarantee and it could take 7-10 days for the backlog of refunds to be caught up. Also note, the refunds may not be deposited in the...
Tax Preparer Education Requirements
Thought that maybe the required continuing education hours might change this year? Well they have not. The requirements for 2016 continuing education are still here. I would say that, the hour requirement, if left to the last two weeks of the year, can be a bit...
Afternoon Feb. 13th – IRS Funding
So far this year, as of 4pm Eastern, the IRS has released almost no refunds. Current estimates are that the IRS has released refunds for fewer than 1% of returns filed in the first week of the e-file, and virtually no refunds from the second week. Many of the refunds...
Health Care Basics For Preparing Your Clients Returns
We got this from the IRS site about what you need to file for the ACA (Affordable Care Act). We are just sending this out for your information.We also have included a quick link to the Health Care Exemption Tool. This step by step tool is to help determine the lowest...
Urgent Electronic Filing Center Information
The Electronic Filing Center stops sending E-files at 6pm EST on Friday November 20th. This includes 2014, 2013, and 2012 efiles The IRS shuts down at 11:59am Saturday November 21st Acks not retrieved by 11:59am Saturday November 21st will be unavailable until IRS...
Professional Tax Software ? IRS Withheld FOIA Information
If you are not familiar with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), it is a law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government. It is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government. When a federal agency...