Tax preparers

Complex taxes, IRS backlog, and more taxpayers seeking professional help will lead to a tough season.

Liability risks always multiply in the run-up to April 15; this year is even worse.

Tax pros are keeping their fingers and toes crossed for a normal filing season.

A survey from Intuit Accountants indicates that tax-related planning and advisory services bring in much more than compliance services.

The IRS is reminding tax pros that current Preparer Tax ID Numbers will expire on Dec. 31.

The NATP has released the latest edition of its annual fee study for practitioners.

Legislation is on track to give the service the authority it needs, with tax pro groups supporting it.

The NATP poll of more than 20,000 tax pros finds that many of them plan to hire more staff next tax season.

From long-term planning with clients to vacation, tax pros discuss how they're using this year's 'down time.'

Tax pros weigh in on the pros and cons of this year’s extended filing deadline.

There’s no consensus on when and how practitioners will return face-to-face with clients.

A pair of lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation to regulate tax preparers in the latest effort to ferret out unqualified preparers.

The IRS, tax preparers and taxpayers all scrambled to keep up with a rapidly changing situation this year.

A tough season has some preparers considering taking down their shingle, but many still plan to hang on.

While some are scouting for prospects, others are still recovering.

Regulating preparers, modernizing old tech and beefing up cryptocurrency reporting would yield $700 billion, according to a new report.

One thing they’ll definitely keep: not seeing every client in person.

The service plans to offer online Tax Pro Accounts in the third quarter of this year, on a timeline accelerated by the pandemic.

The American Families Plan includes provisions that would expand Internal Revenue Service oversight of tax preparers.

Practitioners share which parts of their jobs they’d ditch and which they’d keep.