Comments on: IRS to Raise $60 Million by Charging Preparers Fifty Dollar Registration Fee http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/07/25/irs-to-charge-preparers-50-registration-fee/ Pappas on Taxation Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:09:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/07/25/irs-to-charge-preparers-50-registration-fee/comment-page-1/#comment-6536 Peter Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:49:30 +0000 http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=18547#comment-6536 Tony, Great point. I agree. Tony,

Great point. I agree.

]]> By: Tony http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/07/25/irs-to-charge-preparers-50-registration-fee/comment-page-1/#comment-6525 Tony Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:11:46 +0000 http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=18547#comment-6525 Of course the $50 fee is arbitrary but then so are most license fees. Of greater interest is the discrimatory nature of charging a fee to assign and monitor a PTIN but not a CAF or POA number. If the goal is simply to bring in revenue why not require a fee to obtain an EIN? Entities are already paying hundreds of dollars to obtain a state license for their corporations, LLC's etc. Why should an SS-4 application be free? If the answer is that assigning an EIN is part of the IRS's job then why isn't the same true for the PTIN? Of course the $50 fee is arbitrary but then so are most license fees. Of greater interest is the discrimatory nature of charging a fee to assign and monitor a PTIN but not a CAF or POA number. If the goal is simply to bring in revenue why not require a fee to obtain an EIN? Entities are already paying hundreds of dollars to obtain a state license for their corporations, LLC’s etc. Why should an SS-4 application be free? If the answer is that assigning an EIN is part of the IRS’s job then why isn’t the same true for the PTIN?

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