The Tax Professionals Blog

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.

Here we go again, conflicting rulings.  The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, reversing a district court, has held that FedEx drivers in California are employees, not independent contractors, in an action brought by them under the California Labor Code for employment expenses and unpaid wages.

The Franchise Tax Board (FTB) announced mailing more than 90,000 audit letters to taxpayers to verify their “Head of Household” (HOH) filing status on their 2013 state tax return.