The IRS, state tax agencies and the tax industry – working together as the Security Summit recently concluded its summer series, Protect Your Clients; Protect Yourself. This campaign was a reminder for tax pros to focus on fundamentals of security and watch out for emerging issues when using cloud-based services for their practice. Read more
WASHINGTON — The Security Summit partners today concluded a special summer education campaign by outlining steps tax professionals can take to help clients from becoming statistics in identity-theft related tax-fraud scams. Read more
WASHINGTON — With identity thieves continuing to target the tax community, Internal Revenue Service Security Summit partners today urged tax professionals to learn the signs of data theft so they can react quickly to protect clients. Read more
We’ve all had clients that forget to bring in a form or two and then we are faced with the seemingly arduous task of completing an amended tax return.
WASHINGTON – With tax season in full swing, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax agencies and tax industry today warned tax professionals of new email scams that attempt to steal their tax software preparation credentials.
Typical scenario:
In 2020 the Taxpayer took a distribution of 60,000 from a Non IRA retirement account and he also took a 30,000 distribution from an IRA. For 2020 form 8915-E was filed and 1/3 of these distributions were included in the 2020 tax return.
WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Service today kicked off the 2022 tax filing season with an urgent reminder to taxpayers to take extra precautions this year to file an accurate tax return electronically to help speed refunds.
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that it will issue information letters to Advance Child Tax Credit recipients starting in December and to recipients of the third round of the Economic Impact Payments at the end of January. Using this information when preparing a tax return can reduce errors and delays in processing.
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued the 2022 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Read more
Below you will find all the recordings, additional information as well as a list of the prize winners for each session. This page will be updated with additional recordings and information over the week of the seminar.
