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Tax Preparers Rejoice! Here’s How To Prepare SECURE 2.0 Form 8881 Retirement Tax Credit If You Use Gusto & Guideline

Nancy McClelland, LLC

This week, I discovered a gift that Gusto created for tax preparers with clients that use the Gusto+Guideline combo — a reporting tool that will literally prepare the Form 8881 “Credit for Small Employer Pension Plan Startup Costs” for you. And now we’re superstars to them.

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Sales Tax Compliance: Automated Returns or Service Provider?

TaxConnex

This time of year, everybody’s mind is on income tax preparation. And for many accountants and CPA firms, this time of year means extra-long hours and more time spent managing clients’ finances. Either those that they’ve hired internally or the trusted CPA firm they’ve utilized for years.

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Not your father’s CPA firm: position your firm for the future workforce

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Progress in technology, changes in policy, and changes public opinion are a few of the factors that impact CPA firms and how they work within their team and with clients. . Many preventative measures can be taken to ‘future-proof’ your firm, making certain you will not be left behind as changes occur.

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A New Approach to Make Next Tax Season Go More Smoothly

CPA Practice

The accounting profession has been facing a staffing crunch brought on by fewer college graduates entering the profession and experienced tax practitioners transitioning to different careers in accounting. However, there’s a challenge when it comes to expanding your firm’s existing staff. By Richard Lavina.

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Tax Season 2023 Is Officially Open! Maybe. Okay, Not So Fast.

Nancy McClelland, LLC

Tax preparers everywhere spent the past two months gearing up for yesterday’s “opening day” of tax season, January 29th. Ths allows me to continue to provide free accounting resources to small businesses who do not have the funds available to hire a CPA. Enter Congress.

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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Indeed, trust is not built on mitigating risks alone. million from the federal government.

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The Technology Lab Podcast – Safeguarding Client Data: Update on IRS Pub 4557 – August 2023

CPA Practice

So what do you think our tax preparer friends need to know? And Steve Perkins, who has been a long term client out of Hogan Taylor in Tulsa, and Andrew Lucys, who’s the CEO of tech for accountants, well, each of the four of us took a section in that course and tried to explain what to do. day away FTC at bit.li/j j away FTC.