Tax season

The IRS shares some advice on fixing a return (text version)

With the regulations that once kept financial advisors and other money-management professionals on the social-media sidelines a thing of the past, the floodgate of tweets, Snaps and Instagram posts should be wide open by now. But the response has actually been quite muted.

The IRS reports that it processed 134,387,120 returns from last season through May 26.

Give some people time and invariably they’ll want more.

The sun has set on Tax Day 2016. Another season older and what did you learn? And what will do differently next year?

The Internal Revenue Service has restored the Get Transcript online application that it took down last year, adding improved multi-factor authentication processes to safeguard the program from being exploited by identity thieves.

In my two previous columns, I wrote about CPAs who leave public accounting and go to work in private industry. Based upon the comments and emails I received, this is an involved topic and I would like to delve into it further.

Despite their collective sigh of relief at the end of tax season, the lull that afflicts the profession afterwards can be disquieting.

Congratulations, now that you’ve made it through the end of busy season and managed to put all of those long evenings in the office in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to get back to business. Now is a great time to revisit your firm’s strategic plan for 2016.

Now that it’s springtime and the birds are chirping, it’s important for your tax clients to consider education-related expenses when applying for federal financial aid.

Who would ever think that the most important part of a shoebox with a client’s tax information was the shoebox? Not me, and I lost a client because of it.

A company called MorphoTrust USA plans to use selfies next tax season to help taxpayers avoid the risk of losing their tax refunds to identity thieves.

Constant vigilance is the price of fighting online fraud

Tax pros share their approaches to clients who get upset over not getting a refund

Tax pros shares the different ways they relax after April 18 — and how many of them get right back to work

TaxAct plans to launch a new sweepstakes next week for tax professionals to celebrate the end of tax season.

Many small business owners who received tax refunds plan to invest the money in their businesses, according to a new survey.

Could those Form 4868 extensions that you’re filing for your clients turn tax procrastinators into prey?

Liberty Tax Service has developed an executive task force to examine issues within the company “and take aggressive action” to ensure all franchisees meet the tax prep giant’s standards.

The Internal Revenue Service’s expanded use of controls this tax season to identify fraudulent refund claims before accepting them into its processing system has allowed the IRS to identify approximately 35,000 fraudulent e-filed tax returns and 741 paper tax returns as of Feb. 29, 2016, according to a new government report.