The Tax Professionals Blog

If we have learned anything from this tax season, it is that getting a grasp on the tough issues before the season starts is crucial. We have already integrated the latest extenders and law changes into the 2015 Edition of our popular Enrolled Agent (EA) CPE course.

If we have learned anything from this tax season, it is that getting a grasp on the tough issues before the season starts is crucial. We have already integrated the latest extenders and law changes into the 2015 Edition of our popular California Registered Tax Preparers (CRTP) CPE course.

A federal judge, James Boasberg, the same judge who handed down the Loving v. IRS ruling last year invalidating the IRS’s attempt to impose mandatory testing and continuing education of non-credentialed tax preparers, has dismissed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service by the American Institute of CPAs over its new program offering voluntary education and testing of non-CPA tax preparers.

During October the IRS will send warning letters to preparers who appear not to be complying with due-diligence requirements for the Earned Income Tax Credit.

The Internal Revenue Service intends to process complaints against tax preparers from their clients in a more timely way, in response to a new government report that found it had begun work on only about half the complaints it received since October 2012.