Tax preparation

Better communication with clients, more efficient workflow, and cloning themselves top the list of things tax pros want for next year.

Cigars and nose jobs; ‘training’ to manipulate numbers; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Audit myths; credits and whistleblowers; details of reform; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

A federal district court has ruled in favor of tax preparers who filed a class-action lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over its right to charge fees for Preparer Tax Identification Numbers, and the IRS may need to refund hundreds of millions of dollars in fees collected each year.

Deep trouble for Deepwater scam; $6K in false HSH income; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Reasons to focus on complicated returns; 529 Day; in memory and in thanks; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The ruling rejects the ‘software defense’ for deduction errors.

More than $1 million bilked in state taxes; dead wrongs; life goes on (trial); and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Three new people are ready to advice the Internal Revenue Service on nonprofit issues.

Attorneys and leeches; poker, pro sports and debt; effects of IRS tardiness; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Representatives of the small-firm organization made their annual trip trek to D.C. to present reforms that would help members and their clients.

The Trump administration’s proposals may create opportunities for practitioners.

The Internal Revenue Service is pilot testing a new program for conducting correspondence examinations of taxpayers using secure messaging technology that will also include their tax practitioners who have power of attorney.

More expenses than wages; fake medical, education deductions; stealing from the elderly and veterans; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Summer plans; evaluating clients; succession planning; e-wills; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

H&R Block’s use of IBM’s Watson technology this past tax season is only one sign of the increasing involvement of artificial intelligence in tax preparation, with even Big Four firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers making major investments in AI for servicing their tax clients.

IRS experience is no shield from jail; $6 million in bogus deductions; ignoring injunctions; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Deduction alternatives; the death of Medicare tax; a phony Social Security number; other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The tax prep chain saw 4 percent revenue growth, and a 6.6 percent jump in same-store sales.

The due date for applying has been set at June 20.