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A joint letter from the NSA and the NATP requesting clarification on tax preparers' professional responsibilities prompted the IRS to publish guidance on how practitioners can meet their Circular 230 responsibilities.  Much of the current challenge for practitioners...

The forums return to an in-person format in five cities across the nation for the first time since the onset of COVID-19. In a recent news release last Thursday, the IRS indicated registration is now open for the 2023 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums. NSA members are...

Dirty Dozen: IRS urges anyone having trouble paying their taxes to avoid anyone claiming they can settle tax debt for pennies on the dollar, known as OIC mills IR-2022-119, June 7, 2022 WASHINGTON — As the 6th item on the 2022 "Dirty Dozen" scams warning list, the...

Read the Top Ten IRS errors here. ### NSA represents members who provide accounting, auditing, tax preparation, financial and estate planning, and management services to thousands of individuals and business clients across the nation. Most members are sole...

Contact:  Jessica L. Jeane, J.D.Managing Director, Public Policy571-982-7360jjeane@nsacct.org NSA Members See Movement in Their Call to Have the IRS Suspend Certain Automated Notices But Say More is Needed Alexandria, VA, January 28, 2022 – Members of the National...

Alexandria, VA, January 18, 2022 — The National Society of Accountants (NSA) announced today that Joshua Caulfield, IOM, will be joining NSA as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on January 24.  Caulfield is currently completing his Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)...

The IRS announced that the nation's tax season will start on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, when the tax agency will begin accepting and processing 2021 tax year returns. The January 24 start date for individual tax return filers allows the IRS time to perform programming and...

The IRS released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Progress Update describing the agency's work delivering taxpayer service and compliance efforts during the pandemic while highlighting efforts taken by IRS employees to help people during the year. "This has been an...

President Biden has signed an Executive Order (EO) effectively requiring new IRS online tools and services. The White House on December 13, 2021, issued the Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in...

Alexandria, VA, December 13, 2021 - Amid a staggering backlog of millions of unprocessed individual returns and a bottleneck of unprocessed tax forms, 99 House Republicans sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, calling on the IRS to provide information...