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Update: The IRS announced that they are once again accepting e-filed tax returns. Tax preparers should continue to prepare and file their clients’ taxes as normal. For those who prepared and filed their taxes with Intuit® ProConnect™ earlier today, we are...
With only a few weeks left in this year’s tax season, the IRS, state tax agencies and the tax industry warned tax professionals to be alert to taxpayer data theft in the final weeks of the tax filing season. The...
With more than half of the nation’s taxpayers relying on someone else to prepare their tax return, the IRS is reminded consumers to be on the lookout for unscrupulous tax preparers looking to make a fast buck from honest people...
You’ve heard it before: not all heroes wear capes. You are a real life Tax Hero to your clients, and this year, many of your peers are connecting with taxpayers in a new way, through TurboTax Live by answering taxpayers’...
Intuit® has learned of a new email phishing scam that accountants and tax professionals should know about to ensure they help protect their firms’ and clients’ personal and professional information. Please be aware that the “from” address as well as...
Tax professionals should know that the IRS recently released an updated Withholding Calculator on IRS.gov and a new version of Form W-4 to help taxpayers check their 2018 tax withholding following passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December. The IRS...
Tax prepares, take note: the IRS continues to warn taxpayers of a new twist on an old scam. Criminals are depositing fraudulent tax refunds into individuals’ actual bank accounts, then attempting to reclaim the refund from the taxpayers. Here are...
Tax professionals should know the IRS is warning taxpayers of a quickly growing scam involving erroneous tax refunds being deposited into their bank accounts. Following up on a Security Summit alert issued Feb. 2, the IRS issued an additional warning...
According to the IRS, taxpayers with expired Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) should renew them as soon as possible. Tax returns with expired ITINs will face processing delays, and affected taxpayers may lose eligibility for key tax benefits until the...
Seeing the emergence of a new filing season scam, the IRS is urging tax professionals to step up security and beware of phishing emails that can secretly download malicious software that can help cybercriminals steal client data. Only a few...