News, practice tips, and industry updates for CPAs, enrolled agents, attorneys, and everyone else working in tax professionally.
Today might not feel like a red-letter day in the tax world but it’s actually pretty important. You see, today is the day that you want to call your tax professional – and here are five reasons why: Corporate extensions are over but individual returns on extension are due in a little over three weeks….
In June of this year, the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever hit the skids when it was revealed that one of the jurors was a “pathological liar” who lied about everything from her background to her address in order to have a hand in sending a number of tax pros and attorneys to jail. The…
I’ve mentioned before that one of my favorite bits about the GTKYT series is that it runs the gamut from attorneys to accountants to enrolled agents from all over the world and all stages of career life. This week is no different. I’m happy to introduce Dr. Casey Carder who is the Deputy Director for…
One of the things that I love about being able to do this series is that it runs the gamut from attorneys to accountants to enrolled agents from all over the world and all stages of career life. This week, I get to focus on a relative “newbie”, Jennifer L. Lamb, CPA. Jennifer got her…
We all have those clients. You know, those that annoy you a lot. But most of us have the good sense not to hire someone to kill them. Not so Steven Martinez. Martinez, a former IRS agent turned private tax preparer, was arrested in March of this year in Sorrento Valley, California, and accused of…
I hate to fly. I hate the whole waiting in lines and getting jostled about like cattle and being treated fairly poorly by folks who sometimes make me wonder how they actually managed to land a job with that particular set of social skills (yes, I’m talking to you, cranky TSA woman at the Chicago…
I’m not the only tax professional hooked on the Olympics this year. The next tax pro in my Getting to Know You Tuesday series, Bree G. Vopelak, has copped to watching the trials earlier in the season. When not cheering on Team USA, she works at a law firm, Hamilton | Vopelak P.C., in Grapevine,…
One of the interesting things about tax is that it touches everything – and nearly everyone. You can work in the tax field and be an auditor, a tax agent, an attorney or an accountant – or you can write about tax as a copywriter, journalist or blogger. While I’ve traditionally featured tax attorneys and…
Scammers are continuing to target tax professionals. This morning, I received three of these rather authentic warnings ostensibly from the AICPA. The text (in case you can’t make it out) says: Cancellation of Public Account Status due to income tax fraud allegations Valued accountant officer, We have received a complaint about your recent involvement in…
So you know how you’ll read about someone in real life who sounds really cool and then you meet them and you’re so disappointed because that’s not at all how you imagined they were like? That’s not at all what happened when I met the next person in our Getting To Know You Tuesday series….