Federal Appeals overturns a 2017 Federal District court decision (launched by 700,000 in a class action suit, mainly non licensed nonprofessional tax outfits) that the IRS had no authority to charge a fee to tax preparers to obtain a PTIN. The case centered around that “… the assessment must relate to a specific benefit conferred […]
The two issues that immediately come to mind are IRS-related. The first is the latest development in the service’s efforts to increase tax preparer oversight. [Ed Note: in October, a federal court dismissed a lawsuit that the AICPA had filed challenging the IRS’s Annual Filing Season Program (AFSP). Promoted as a voluntary initiative, the AFSP […]
