Tax preparers

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.

Some tax pros say the confusion caused by the pandemic require a delay; others say it should be unnecessary by now.

With tax season starting later than usual, and many of your clients still stuck working remotely, you’ll need all of the tools you can get to make the tax prep process go as smoothly as possible.

Tax professionals share the strangest misconceptions their clients have about taxes.