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		<title>Tax Preparer Goes to Jail</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/12/01/tax-preparer-goes-to-jail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/12/01/tax-preparer-goes-to-jail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that a New Jersey tax preparer was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison for preparing false tax returns for numerous clients that resulted in an estimated tax loss to the federal government of between $30,000 and $80,000. Newark-based tax preparer Carlo St. Jean, 40, pleaded guilty midway through the trial to seven of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Testing of Preparers to Begin</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/23/irs-testing-of-preparers-to-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service is moving into the second phase of its tax preparer regulation initiative by beginning next week to schedule the first competency tests for tax preparers. I used to be in favor of regulation of unenrolled tax preparers because anyone regardless of their education level, criminal background and skill level could hold themselves out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Commish Wants Simpler Tax Code</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/21/irs-commish-wants-simpler-tax-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/21/irs-commish-wants-simpler-tax-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Penalties]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[doug shulman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has come out for tax simplification: Most taxpayers want simplicity. They want to pay what they owe, understand what tax benefits they are entitled to, and not get tripped up by the system. However, today’s Tax Code is anything but simple. It is so complex that it makes it hard for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Continues to Battle Tax Refund Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/01/irs-continues-to-battle-tax-refund-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/01/irs-continues-to-battle-tax-refund-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that the IRS increased the number of fraudulent tax refund claims it detected and stopped during the 2011 tax-filing season by 171 percent over the previous year: As of April 30, 2011, the IRS had identified 775,723 tax returns with $4.6 billion claimed in fraudulent refunds and prevented the issuance of $4.4 billion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AICPA Opposes IRS Fees, Fingerprinting of Tax Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/11/aicpa-opposes-irs-fees-fingerprinting-of-tax-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/11/aicpa-opposes-irs-fees-fingerprinting-of-tax-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=27293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) is asking the Internal Revenue Service to reconsider some of the fees it plans to charge for competency exams and fingerprinting as part of its tax preparer oversight program. The new fees would apply to individuals who are required to take the IRS competency examination in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conscripting Tax Preparers Part 2: EITC Due Diligence Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/08/conscripting-tax-preparers-part-2-eitc-due-diligence-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/08/conscripting-tax-preparers-part-2-eitc-due-diligence-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[earned income tax credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eitc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS abuse of power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs due diligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote a post titled IRS Disbars CPA for Relying on Client&#8217;s Income and Expense Numbers about a disturbing trend by the IRS to draft private tax preparers and force them to work as IRS auditors without pay. Here&#8217;s what I said: Tax preparers are advocates for their taxpayer clients and do not work for the IRS. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS To Fingerprint Tax Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/28/irs-to-fingerprint-tax-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/28/irs-to-fingerprint-tax-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read that correctly. The Journal of Accountancy reports that the IRS plans to start fingerprinting thousands of tax preparers as part of its oversight program and run the fingerprints through an FBI database: The IRS released more details on its tax preparer oversight program on Wednesday, and said registered tax return preparers would now be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You an Idiot if You Use Social Media?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/02/anyone-who-uses-social-media-is-an-idiot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/02/anyone-who-uses-social-media-is-an-idiot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=24155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no quarrel with people who don&#8217;t participate in social media. It&#8217;s not for everyone. I do, however, have a problem with someone who eschews social media and then accuses others of being mental midgets for not doing the same. You probably know who I&#8217;m talking about. You guessed it: The Maestro. The very same fellow who has lambasted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparer Regulation Update</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/29/preparer-regulation-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/29/preparer-regulation-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=24065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that Congress is having hearings on IRS oversight of tax preparers. David Rothstein, a research fellow at the New America Foundation, testified on behalf of the think tank as well as the National Community Tax Coalition and Policy Matters Ohio: The data from this past tax filing season confirms that an extremely high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Tax Professionals Worthless?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/25/are-tax-professionals-worthless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/06/25/are-tax-professionals-worthless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and fellow tax blogger Knox Marlow in a recent post titled Get a Real Job says that tax professionals have no &#8220;real&#8221; value to society: What value do tax professionals add to the &#8220;commercial matrix&#8221; of development, finance, production and marketing? The answer may bruise the egos of practitioners and academics from both sides of the political spectrum. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newsflash: IRS Preparer Regulation Won&#8217;t Eliminate All Preparer Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/02/09/21170/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/02/09/21170/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=21170</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Kristan, a very vocal opponent of IRS regulation of tax preparers, wrote this today on his blog: From the Memphis Commercial Appeal:  A Memphis woman who admitted to preparing bogus income tax returns has been sentenced to 22 months in federal prison. Cassandra Jordan, 46, also must make $75,000 in restitution to the Internal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPAs vs. Unenrolled, Unlicensed &amp; Unaccountable Tax Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/01/19/cpas-vs-unenrolled-unlicensed-unaccountible-tax-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/01/19/cpas-vs-unenrolled-unlicensed-unaccountible-tax-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CPA tax blogger Joe Kristan has written a rejoinder to Wandering Tax Pro Robert Flach, our favorite non-CPA, non-Enrolled Agent, non-lawyer, non-anything-that-requires-licensing-testing-and-accountability tax preparer: Robert D. Flach has put up another one of his occasional posts where he beats up on my profession: Don&#8217;t assume that because a person has the initials &#8220;CPA&#8221; after his name he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparer Registration Update: Relief for Non-Signing Tax Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/12/22/preparer-registration-update-relief-for-non-signing-tax-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/12/22/preparer-registration-update-relief-for-non-signing-tax-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Bonner of The Journal of Accountancy reports that IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said the Service would probably provide relief from proposed testing and continuing education requirements for nonsigning tax preparers working under the supervision of a CPA or other federally authorized tax practitioners, such as an attorney or enrolled agent, in a CPA or other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are IRS Help Line Advisors Subject to Tax Preparer Regulation?</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/11/12/are-irs-help-line-advisors-subject-to-tax-preparer-regulation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/11/12/are-irs-help-line-advisors-subject-to-tax-preparer-regulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas French of Mises Economics Blog writes (emphasis is mine): Yes, you were likely concerned that rogue tax return preparers were roaming the country, doing shoddy tax returns for unsuspecting taxpayers. The IRS is fixing this problem by requiring tax preparers to have a Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN). Tax preparers must pay $64.25 for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Cracking Down on Crooked Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/10/27/irs-cracking-down-on-crooked-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/10/27/irs-cracking-down-on-crooked-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tax law Professor and blogger Linda Beale today wrote exuberantly about the IRS&#8217;s crackdown on tax preparer abuse in Tax preparer &#8212; old abuses, new procedures. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The days of just anyone becoming a tax return preparer and playing havoc with the rules, as some have, seem to be winding down. The courts, for one, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance of Volunteer Tax Preparers Improves in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/10/25/performance-of-volunteer-tax-preparers-improves-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/10/25/performance-of-volunteer-tax-preparers-improves-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received this email from TIGTA today saying that  the performance of volunteer tax preparers under the VITA program have greatly improved in 2010: TIGTA: Accuracy of Tax Returns Prepared by Volunteers Improved in 2010 WASHINGTON – Volunteers who prepare income tax returns at the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Cracking Down on Bad Boy Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/10/05/irs-cracking-down-on-bad-boy-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/10/05/irs-cracking-down-on-bad-boy-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs fraud]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=19403</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The IRS is getting much more aggressive in pursuing criminal prosecution of unscrupulous tax preparers. WebCPA has the story: Two New York City tax preparers are facing prison time and the payment of substantial sums of money in a pair of recent cases. “The tax return preparer industry is at the dawn of a new era [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unenrolled Tax Preparer Outfit Shut Down for Tax Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/16/unenrolled-tax-preparer-outfit-shut-down-for-tax-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/16/unenrolled-tax-preparer-outfit-shut-down-for-tax-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=19366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Orlando television station WFTV reports of yet another unenrolled tax preparer outfit that bites the dust:  An Orlando tax preparer may have single-handedly cheated the federal government out of at least $1 million. Investigators shut down the Lancaster Tax Service on Wednesday.  The tax service is accused of making up dependents and deductions, for things like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Levelling the Tax Preparer Playing Field</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/03/levelling-the-tax-preparer-playing-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/09/03/levelling-the-tax-preparer-playing-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attorney tax preparer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[john ams]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=19267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.&#8221; - Thomas Jefferson - WebCPA reports that a bloke named John Ams of the National Society of Accountants testified before Congress on Tuesday suggesting that CPA and attorney tax preparers who are currently regulated by state authorities should be subject to the same IRS preparer standards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Sues Roni Deutch for &#8220;Heartless&#8221; Pennies on the Dollar Tax Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/08/25/california-sues-roni-deutch-for-heartless-pennies-on-the-dollar-tax-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2010/08/25/california-sues-roni-deutch-for-heartless-pennies-on-the-dollar-tax-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re an insomniac you may recognize Roni Deutch from her ubiquitous late night infomercials promising taxpayers pennies on the dollar settlements with the IRS: Joe Kristan writes about yet another lawsuit against Deutch: California&#8217;s Aspiring GovernorAttorney General Jerry Brown has sued Attorney Roni Deutch, who blogs as the &#8220;Tax Lady,&#8221; for &#8220;swindling&#8221; taxpayers who hire her to get [...]]]></description>
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