Goals for Your First Year as a Tax Preparer

Goals for Your First Year as a Tax Preparer

Goals for Your First Year as a Tax Preparer Setting goals is part and parcel of your job as a tax professional. It is part of the service you offer your clients. They’ll come to your office and ask you to help them with reducing the next year’s tax...
Cost-Cutting Tips for Your Tax Office Startup

Cost-Cutting Tips for Your Tax Office Startup

Are you considering a career as a tax preparer? It’s a great option for the self-starter who’s looking for a small business to manage. Tax preparation has a lot of advantages, including the ability to run a business without too many operating costs. No...
Program Update 3/18/21

Program Update 3/18/21

Your Program should be updated to 35.04 Packages should be updated to the following: 1040 Indirect Ver 6 1120 “C” Corporation Ver 2 1120S “S” Corporation Ver 2 1065 Partnership Ver 2 1041 Fiduciary Ver 3 706 Estate Tax Ver 0 709 Gift Tax Ver 1...
Tax Software Current Versions 35.03

Tax Software Current Versions 35.03

This applies to – Desktop Version Please be sure to Update Program and Update your Modules. On the desktop version you have to get Acks to have the most recent version of the tax return. You can click Get Acks & Forms as much as you would like through out...
Per Return Billing Starts Now

Per Return Billing Starts Now

Product: PPR and 1040 Packages Just a reminder that we are going to start our billing process for 2020 returns. We actually held off our billing by a couple weeks due to the late start of the season. If you have billable items, you will receive an invoice today or...
Tax Software Current Versions

Tax Software Current Versions

This applies to: Desktop Version Online users – If you use the Desktop Version for corporate returns. Please be sure to Update Program and Update your Modules. On the desktop version you have to get Acks to have the most recent version of the tax return. You can...
1099R – 10% Penalty – 3 Year Averaging

1099R – 10% Penalty – 3 Year Averaging

We have gotten a few questions with the tax code change this year. (There are many.) Cashed out Retirement they receive a 1099R. They can avoid the 10% penalty if they took the money out because of the pandemic. Also they can choose to average the tax treatment over...
Tax Software Update

Tax Software Update

We are just a couple days away from the IRS opening e-file for everyone. Though you may have started seeing acks yesterday. The IRS is Hub testing now. Acks will be slow in coming. Pre-Acks are now just regular advances now. You must get an IRS ack before you can get...
Stimulus Payments EIP payments and forms

Stimulus Payments EIP payments and forms

Looks like this season is going to get off to a crazy start. The Economic Recovery Payment 2 paid end of December 2020 / First of January 2021. WILL BE reconciled on their 2020 tax return. So the “$600” payment will be paid on their tax return as a...
IRS Announced e-file start date

IRS Announced e-file start date

IRS announced today, that e-file will start on February 12th to accept 2020 tax returns. The start of the season has been delayed due to the tax law changes on Dec. 27th. You can transmit returns now. They will be held until February 12th and assuming the volume will...