Do you sometimes feel you’re in a hurry to try to get through your emails or online courses? Does social media and the fast pace life of rush, rush, rush have you rushing through things that sometimes you end up missing things, feeling like you can’t remember things anymore. Here are some suggestions to slow your pace. […]
Update: New Tax Preparer Regulations
Quick tax update for you: The “big dogs” of the tax industry, including AICPA and H&R Block®, have now come out strongly in favor of new tax preparer regulations at the federal level. It is possible, even likely, that Congress will pass new regulations affecting “unlicensed” tax preparers (i.e. not EA or CPA) by the […]
CTEC Reminder: Deadline October 31st
Just a little reminder you have 53 days to complete your course and register with CTEC to avoid the $55 penalty fee. If you are a Forever Edition Member, the course is already in your account ready to go. After October 31, you can still renew CTEC by January 15, 2020, but you would have to pay that pesky […]
EA Exam Reschedule and Cancellation Problems
A quick heads up that our EA Exam Training Program teacher, TaxMama® Eva Rosenberg, has informed me that there have been some problems lately with Prometric, the company that administers the EA Exam. You know, Prometric, where you go to their “testing center” and they put you at a computer, give you the instructions, and then you sit […]
IRS “math error” letters increased by 1,331% this year versus last year.
No, that 1,331% increase is not one of my infamous typos! 🙂 Statistics here from IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service report, check my math please: 629,000 math error letters sent January 1, 2020 – July 15, 2020. 9 million math error letters sent January 1, 2021 – July 15, 2021. 7.4 million of those letters were related to […]