Webinar: Reconciling the 1099-K and 1099 MISC

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This year, people in business or selling on eBay will be getting 1099s from both their banks (or PayPal) and their customers. Often, those 1099s will overlap, telling the IRS that you received much more money than you really earned. There is a trick to reporting these 1099s that will help you avoid audit, while bringing your income down to the correct amount.

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This 2-hour workshop is designed for small business-owners, as well as tax professionals. You will see the specific forms, how they fit into your tax return, and exactly what steps you need to take to avoid being audited. You will be able to ask specific questions.

When: Tuesday, February 26 at 8:05 am – 10:00 am Pacific.

Where: Online – no driving necessary.

Note: you will need speakers on your computer, to hear the lecture.


Cost: $39 – Register Now! however, it is FREE to TaxMama® Family members and TaxMama’s® students.

Note: Family members and students will get an invitation with the coupon code.


CPE: 2 hours for EAs and CPAs

Level: Basic

 

IRS Education provider # HCGAM NASBA Sponsor Identification Number: 112311


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IRS Free CPE Courses Coming up

2011-05-13 by

Courtesy of IRS

The Examination Process for Employment Tax Returns

The June 22 IRS Live broadcast will cover the employment tax examination process, taxpayer rights, settlement agreements and payment options.

ewers will learn from IRS and industry experts what to expect from an employment tax examination including information about:


  • Examination process

  • Statute of limitations

  • Examination results

  • Taxpayer and appeal rights

  • Settlement agreements and payment options

  • 

Small Business Advantage: Put Our Knowledge to Work for You

Register now for the May 18th free webinar,


  • Learn about the new IRS brand for small business resources

  • Discover multiple resources to help small businesses thrive

  • What are the benefits of using Small Business Advantage?

  • Find out about opportunities available now for small businesses


Watch videos of prior seminars – no CPE provided

http://www.irsvideos.gov/

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Everything You Wanted to Know About the IRS EA Exam

2011-04-22 by

This time of year, everyone has lots of questions about the IRS Special Enrollment Examination.

That’s why I hold a session – and record it – to explain the most important aspects of the Exam, and what you need to know if you’re going to be studying to become an Enrolled Agent.

If you missed the session on April 20th, you can replay it all right here.

Just click on this little, bitty, link.

You’ll also find LOTS more information at the main site – at IRSEXAMS.COM

There is information about the Live Class TaxMama teaches.

You will also find the Course Schedule on that page.

There is information about the Self-Study Course TaxMama teaches.

There is information about the materials used in and provided with the class.

There is information about the course prices.

There is information about the exam itself.

If you’re not really sure what an Enrolled Agent is, there’s information about that.

We even show you what students have said about the class!

And if I haven’t answered everything, well, there are FAQs for you.
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IRS CPE Opportunities in April

2011-04-22 by

Phone Forums – Employee Plans

Free phone forums featuring IRS employees discussing retirement plan topics.


Funding Standards and Relief for Single and Multiemployer Plans – April 28, 2011 – 2:00 p.m. EST
Funding standards applicable to single and multiemployer pension plans will be discussed in an hour-long update presented by Adrien LaBombarde and Tonya B. Manning, actuaries in Employee Plans Rulings & Agreement – Technical. The presentation will focus on the rules under the Pension Protection Act, funding relief and relevant agency guidance, and key practical issues. If you have a specific issue that you would like the speakers to address, please let us know via email at ep.phoneforum@irs.gov on or before April 22, 2011.

Conference Access Code 135482

Register at https://www.attevent.com/rsvpreg.asp?PPass=135482
You will be assigned a Personal Identification Number (PIN) that must be used to join the conference.
If you have never registered with AT&T phone forum, you will need to click on “create a profile” first.

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NATIONAL WEBINARS



Meeting: Accessing IRS Records (Webinar)


Date(s): April 27, 2011
Time: 2:00 p.m. (ET); 1:00 p.m. (CT); 12:00 p.m. (MT); 11:00 a.m. (PT)
Location: Your Home or Office
Contact: IRS Webinar; E-mail: sbse.webinars@irs.gov
Event Information:

Learn the basics about:


  • How the IRS provides access to agency records

  • How to use established IRS procedures to properly access records

  • How to access the IRS FOIA eReading Room and what records are housed there

  • How to use the resources on the IRS Web site to file a FOIA

  • How IRS Office of Disclosure processes FOIA requests


Earn Continuing Professional Education credit

  • Enrolled agents receive one CPE credit for participating for a minimum of 50 minutes from the start of the webinar.

  • Other tax professionals may receive credit if the webinar meets your organization’s or state’s CPE requirements.

  • To receive credit, you must attend the presentation offered on April 27, 2011.

  • Register for the webinar using your email address, and use the same email address to log in to attend. This will confirm your attendance and generate your Certificate of Completion.

  • *Only April 27, 2011, participants will receive certificates. If you do not need a certificate to obtain CPE credit, you may choose to view the archived version of the webinar after April 27, 2011.

  • Look for your Certificate of Completion by email approximately one week after the webinar. If you have met all requirements, you will receive your certificate automatically.


To register for this event, visit the Internal Revenue Service Webinar Registration Web site.

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A Trip to the IRS Tax Forums, Page 2

2010-09-03 by

Problem Resolution and Focus Groups


Problem Resolution had a facility at the Tax Forum. One of my friends brought a case file with her (and power of attorney forms, etc.). When picking up her registration packet on Monday, she was given a form to fill out with the specifics of her case (and a copy of the power of attorney – Form 2848). By the time she arrived at her appointment on Tuesday or Wednesday, the staff had pulled up relevant information about her case and researched the stumbling blocks. She sat down with them and resolved all the problems in no time at all. This is a case that has been a source of frustration for many, many months. Her clients have a refund coming soon.

Those folks who are smart enough to take advantage of the Problem Resolution services at these Tax Forums and other IRS events generally walk away really happy. This is one of the essential services I would hate to see go away, if IRS stops operating these forums and turns continuing education over to the associations and private vendors like myself.

Focus Groups are another special benefit at these Tax Forums. You get to meet with IRS and Taxpayers Advocate (TAS) staff (and perhaps other groups within IRS) to discuss issues of concern about taxpayers’ and tax professionals’ needs and how the system addresses them. Topics I attended two sessions with TAS – IRS Structure and Small Business Issues.

We ran into a little glitch on the Small Business session. Nine of the ten panelists showed up early, so they wanted to convene the session 15 minutes early. My friend Kris was booked to attend, too. She wasn’t there yet, so I called her cell phone, telling her we were starting early. She never managed to get in – and one of the coordinators was giving me nasty looks. She complained that she had been turning people away, waiting for my friend to show up. We finally started at 9:00 am without Kris. Well…it turned out that one of the people they turned away WAS Kris. Despite her telling them she had RSVPd and was expected. Oh well, it was the last day. Staff was tired.

Humor and irony aside, what did we discuss, or learn?

IRS Structure

The biggest complaint from tax professionals about the current structure of IRS is lack of consistency.
Consistency within the database, consistency of information, consistency in administering tax policy.

Now that IRS has moved away from regional operations to more centralized campuses, we would have expected that all information about a taxpayer can be consisently accessed from anywhere in the system. That’s not the case. When a taxpayer talks to the IRS customer service line, or to any of the collections or examination staff, they are meant to make notations about the contact in the client’s master file. Yet you call back a few days later, and the system doesn’t show the details of the last contact. The taxpayer or Rep has to start all over again, providing information and back-up. It’s time-consuming, frustrating and leads to frayed tempers.

Another problem is that the central exam campus loses paperwork. One person talked about a 9-inch stack of documents they sent in that never got associated with their client’s file. Another about submitting documents that take forever to get linked to the file, in the meantime, the next cycle of notices is being issued.

At present, some notices provide a fax number allowing you to submit documents. However, no one ever acknowledges receipt of those faxes. So you don’t know if your pages arrived, or something didn’t get through, or…

I suggested that IRS take advantage of the current e-services system IRS already has in place. Presently, we can look up client data. But how about allow practitioners to upload their documents related to audits and colletions directly into the client’s file? There would be a date/time stamp on the submissions – and we would know if any pages didn’t arrive.

Small Business Issues

The big surprise here was that the Taxpayers Advocate Service offers services to small businesses. Frankly, except for problems with payroll tax issues, none of us could really think of business instances of contacting TAS.

So the first recommendation was to have TAS put together a guide on what services businesses can count on from TAS.

The question came up about what one thing businesses do not use to their advantage or know enough about? Tax Credits available to small businesses. We recommended that IRS produce a publication putting all small business tax credits into one place.

Other recommendations where information is needed:

..How to properly dissolve a business – especially how to close out the books.
..Clear and usable cancellation of debt formulas, with their effect on tax attributes.

Recommendation on rules to change, clarify or make more fair?

BIG SCARY ISSUE – bookkeepers, staff and anyone dealing with payoll even remotely, can be held personally liable when the owner or officers don’t pay payroll taxes. In fact, even whistleblowers, trying to correct the situation have suddenly found themselves being financially responsible when they tried to get their boss to do the right thing and the boss used the money frivolously instead. Totally unfair and unreasonable. More payroll defaults are expected as the economy gets worse. These rules must change.

Pension rules for small businesses and the administration of the pensions – too complicated. Too easy to run afoul of.

Medical benefits for small businesses. Come on, is it REALLY necessary to jump through the hoops, to hire your spouse, etc. to get medical benefits in your business? Puhlleeeze. Please, make the medical benefits for small businesses easier to claim and to administer.

Gifts – limited to $25 per person per year? This number hasn’t changed since the Revolution. You can barely even cover postage for this amount. Time to update deductible gifts, don’t you think?

The new 1099 reporting requirements. CRAZY! Need I say more?

For more about the classes at the Tax Forum stay tuned. This will continue on Page 3 next week.

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