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Tax Return Electronic Filings up 6%
May 24th, 2009
A record 90 million tax returns were filed electronically this year, up almost 6 from last year, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Of those, more than 30 million were filed from home computers. By April 24, the IRS had accepted 31.2 million returns filed from home computers, up 19.3 percent from the same time last year.
As of April 24, almost 70 percent of individuals chose to e-file their tax returns, compared with 61 percent for the same time last year.
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Top Posts for May 23rd to May 30th -- View, Taxes and Tax (Six articles)
May 30th, 2009
Topics for this month included View, Taxes, Tax and Response.
The top four posts for this month were:
- Tax Return Electronic Filings up 6%
- James Schiro, CEO Zurich Financial Services at Fareham, UK Employee Roadshow May 5 2009 with Grace O Gorman
- Top Posts for May 16th to May 23rd -- Tax, Taxes and Income (Four articles)
- Re: High Corporate Taxes Harm USA
Three stories about Tax Preparer that you can't do without reading!
July 4th, 2009
- Man Arrested For Threatening Prosecutor from North
Country Gazette
MANHATTAN— A tax preparer and the president of Unitax Planners, PA, has been arrested on charges of coercion, placing a false bomb or hazardous substance, [...]
- Tax Preparer Regulation from taxguy
[...] In my opinion all the talk about the regulation is just hype. Meaning, Our government, [...]
- Hialeah Florida Tax Preparer Indicted For Preparing
False Tax Returns: Still Don’t Want to Regulate Tax Preparers?
from The Tax Lawyer's Blog
According to the indictment, between 2001 and 2005 Zully M. Cordoba assisted in the preparation of more than 3,700 tax returns and more than 6,100 amended [...]
I’m Back with “Who is”
July 26th, 2009
So much talk about hiring a tax professional and so much debate about who is a professional I want this out again.
The biggest point I want to make is that just because someone is a CPA, doesn’t automatically make them a tax professional.
Tax professionals are hard to find because as you may have heard, there is no accreditation from the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) that says “Tax Professional”.
As a tax preparer I am often asked what is the difference between a tax attorney, an accountant/CPA, a bookkeeper, an Enrolled Agent, and a tax preparer.
A Tax Attorney is not the same as an accountant. The accountant can work with the financial issues and has [...]
Top Posts for August 2009 -- Tax, Tax Preparation and Irs (Eight articles)
August 1st, 2009
Topics for this month included Tax, Tax Preparation, Irs, Tax Preparer and Tax Preparers.
The top four posts for this month were:
- Market Research and Taxes and Finances
- Righteousness in Designation?
- I’m Back with “Who is”
- Supreme Court Strikes Down Alaska Oil Tanker Tax