Will You Be Paying A License Fee To Prepare Taxes?

First the IRS announces it is going to start regulating tax preparers (Get their news ), which would be no big deal except for the added costs and the National Society of Accountants announcing that the national average for an itemized return is only $229. Not much when you figure the overhead of running an office and paying employees. (Find out more by clicking )

Plus, there’s the problem of what do you do when you start advising your clients of a tax strategy and some lawyer sends you a cease and desist letter or demanding a royalty because you were using the strategy. Find out a little more by clicking …

Does all that would just make you warm and cuddly inside? How about letting me know what you think.

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