Appellate Court To IRS: You’ve Lost That Loving Tax Case (Again)
“A big victory for independent tax preparers and taxpayers/consumers alike.” That’s how attorney Dan Alban, of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, described the February...
View ArticleIRS Announces New Tax Preparer Program To Mixed Reactions
There will be a tax preparer certification program after all. That was the word from Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen. If you’re scratching your head after Loving v. Commissioner and...
View ArticleAICPA Files Lawsuit Against IRS To Stop New Tax Preparer Program
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… Except, this time, there’s a twist. Just a few weeks after Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen announced the launch of the Annual Filing Season...
View ArticleIRS Announces PTIN Renewals, Registration For Voluntary Certification
It’s that time of year again: the Internal Revenue Service has announced that current Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTINs) will expire on December 31, 2014. If you are planning to prepare or...
View ArticleIRS Scores Victory In Court Against AICPA In Tax Preparer Suit
In the latest chapter of “definitely not the last word on regulating tax preparers,” another lawsuit has been resolved and this time, it’s the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that brought home the win....
View ArticlePlaintiff In Successful Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Speaks Out
On September 8, 2014, Adam Steele filed a class action suit against the federal government seeking to recover allegedly unlawful license fees paid to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Steele's first...
View ArticleIRS Gets Big Win In Multimillion-Dollar PTIN Fees Case
To fee or not to fee? That’s been the question for nearly nine years. Now the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes that it has an answer: A D.C. Circuit Court has upheld the IRS’ authority to charge...
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