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IRS Announces New Tax Preparer Program To Mixed Reactions
Forbes ^ | 06/27/14 | Kelly Phillips

Posted on 06/27/2014 10:11:48 AM PDT by DFG

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 wondering how that’s possible, here’s your answer: the program will be voluntary. Following losses at the lower court and the appellate court which held that IRS did not have the authority to regulate preparers, the IRS dropped the matter. For the 2014 tax season, tax preparers were required to have a preparer tax identification number (PTIN) but were not required to engage in testing or continuing education requirements; similarly, the new Registered Tax Return Preparer (RTRP) designation was no longer relevant.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irs; irsoutofcontrol; koskinen; rpo; rtrp; taxpreparer

1 posted on 06/27/2014 10:11:48 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

How about a certification program for all IRS employees and it’s commissioner? One that familiarizes them with the Constitution and recognizes (what is supposed to be) the limited nature of their jobs?


2 posted on 06/27/2014 10:20:32 AM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: DFG

Guess which returns are more likely to be audited next year?


3 posted on 06/27/2014 10:22:55 AM PDT by AU72
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To: DFG

Hell anybody that does that for a living already spends most of their time learning more than the irs knows so they can help the People!


4 posted on 06/27/2014 10:24:50 AM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: DFG

Enough! Shut down the IRS. Let the oligarchs who benefit from the government pay for government. The founding fathers were against income tax anyway.


5 posted on 06/27/2014 10:25:53 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: DFG
Voluntary at first, then they will harass people who use "non-qualified" preparers to the point it might as well be mandatory.

I like the idea of certifying all IRS, for that matter all federal employees, with an in-depth civics course what they can and can not do.

6 posted on 06/27/2014 10:31:49 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: thorvaldr

HTTP://WWW.FAIRTAX.ORG

PLEASE DO NOT believe the lies being pushed by the MSM (yeah, like THEY tell the truth about anything) but find out how the FAIRTAX would shrink — and KEEP — fedzilla’s tax collection bureaucracy to less than 1% of its present size and eliminate PERSONAL interactions with INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS!


7 posted on 06/27/2014 10:34:04 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
Their ultimate goal of course, is that only licensed by the IRS tax preparers will be able to submit returns. Bye bye Turbo Tax...and bye bye refunds.



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8 posted on 06/27/2014 11:00:18 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: DFG

And which group of preparers do you think are gonna be privy to the REAL interpretation of the rules?


9 posted on 06/27/2014 11:12:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DFG
I'm curious as to how the thieving, incompetent criminal bullies at the IRS who don't understand their own documentation, nor have computer code that understands it, can possibly "certify" or demand certification from tax preparers.

Let me be clear. They don't understand their own documentation, and neither does their computer software understand their documentation.

10 posted on 06/27/2014 12:30:52 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: BitWielder1

“Voluntary at first, then they will harass people who use “non-qualified” preparers to the point it might as well be mandatory.”

A whole new fake industry is born; we always had tax preparers, now we’ll have tax/ObamaCare documentation preparers.


11 posted on 06/27/2014 2:07:31 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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