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| Editor's Note |
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  Tax preparers who expect to sign their name on tax returns come spring had better put their quills and inkwells aside until they hop online to the IRS’s PTIN site and apply for or renew their very own Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN). All paid preparers are required to have such a number – your Social won’t do. All existing PTINs expire when the clock strikes 12 on the 31st, so get busy and get those renewed. Not surprisingly, there is a fee involved, so be prepared to fork over some bucks.
Meanwhile, if you’re one of those people who recoil when hearing American Tax Relief advertisements bragging about all the people they help bilk the IRS, you can rejoice because a federal judge has shut them down, at least for now. Turns out ATR was actually costing its customers more than it was saving them. Go figure.
Best wishes,
Gail Perry, CPA
Managing Editor
editor@accountingweb.com
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Paid tax return preparers must obtain PTIN by January 1, 2011
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Paid tax return preparers, including attorneys, CPAs, and enrolled agents, must apply for a Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN) from the IRS before signing and filing any federal tax returns in 2011. Paid preparers who already have a PTIN must renew it.
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Top personal income tax rates are rising worldwide
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The worldwide decline in top personal income tax rates over the past seven years generally appears to have come to an end, as this year’s average rate increased 0.3 percent globally, according to KPMG International’s 2010 Individual Income Tax and Social Security Rate Report.
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| It’s Time for Your Federal Tax Update! |
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New IRS regs: Reporting gains and losses is about to get easier
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The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations under a law change that will require reporting of basis and other information by stock brokers and mutual fund companies for most stock purchased in 2011 and all stock purchased in 2012 and later years.
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Federal judge shutters American Tax Relief
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You’ve probably seen the ads for American Tax Relief. They claim to provide help to beleaguered taxpayers by dramatically reducing tax debt, including penalties and interest. But chances are good you will not be seeing those ads again anytime soon.
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