Tax practice

The annual life cycle for accountants traditionally ends and begins with April 15 (or whatever the actual due date is). The early months of the year are involved or consumed with tax season. After tax season ends, normality begins.

I never liked counting down months, weeks or days. To me, it makes the time seem to go by too quickly and decreases my appreciation of today.

When I started my practice I tried to extend as many clients as I could. I figured this would ease tax season and spread the work out throughout the year.

Some suggestions of ways to relieve pressure as you rush toward the last-minute crunch deadline.

During busy times, healthy habits and extracurricular activities are some of the first things to fall off your plate.

It’s tax season and there will be some mistakes on returns you send to clients. Hopefully not many, but there will be some.

Lawyers and engineers are the most likely occupations to hire professional tax preparers, according to newly released statistics.

Very few preparers would consider changing any part of their system a month before busy season ends, so I won’t offer any of my sage advice. But I will make a suggestion.

With a host of new credentials, certificates, degrees and other ways of signaling their expertise now available, accountants and firms need to develop strategies to figure out which best suit their careers and their practices.

Here are some ways to save you and your tax practice some headaches this season.

It’s busy season again: a time when you can barely breathe as you hurry to complete returns for clients who often wait until the very last minute to submit tax preparation documents.

Every preparer wants to know what their clients think. The trick is how to find out.

There is no question there are different kinds of complexity for returns.

Tax season is a busy time and there is a temptation to take a shortcut on procedures, skip some extra training or sidestep an extra effort to be in touch with a client. Succumbing to these and other temptations is a shortsighted mistake that should be avoided.

W-2 scams, e-mail scams, phone scams, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers this week.

When I was an employee I moonlighted and developed a base of clients who enabled me to eventually quit my job and start my own practice. How could I not like tax season?

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause serves up a flight of services to the fast-growing clients in its craft beverage practice.

Seven ways to build better client relationships during tax season, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers this week.

The implications of delaying ACA repeal, getting media exposure during filing season, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The consequences of not signing a return, price spikes at the pump, Congress gets off to a strong start, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.