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Staff Performance Evaluations

During the busy seasons, CPA firm staff and supervisors are focused on their clients. For the best employees, the volume of work never distracts from the quality. But in crunch time, anyone can dev...

IRS Hires Private Debt Collection Services: How to Help Your Clients

The recent announcement that the IRS is turning over certain collection cases to third-party debt collectors has sent some shock waves through our profession. This article addresses these concerns ...

Issues to Consider When Establishing a Tax Home Overseas

As the world has become a smaller place, more and more businesses have developed international operations. Once established, these foreign-based companies are often staffed by local country personn...

Partnership Tax Audits: The New Rules

The new partnership audit regime under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, P.L. 114-74 (“BBA”), radically changes the assessment and collection of partnership audit tax adjustments. Yet despite the ...

April 2017 Tax Section News

April 2017 Tax Section News including updates on Tax Reform, IRS collection standards, ITIN service options, providing tax services to marijuana businesses, and advice on client billing. Also, reso...

Tax Identity Theft Information and Tools

Identity theft is a growing area of concern for taxpayers and practitioners.  The AICPA has created this page to provide members with information about preventing identity theft, including tips to ...

Tax Research Information and Tools

Tax practitioners provide tax advice to clients on a continuing basis and should be familiar with the applicable standards for providing such advice, including Circular 230, the AICPA’s Code of Pro...

IRS Collection Guidance and Resources

Practitioners are likely to have clients who owe taxes to the IRS and who are unable to ...

Member Spotlight - Arthur "Kip" Dellinger

Kip Dellinger is a current member of the AICPA Tax Executive Committee, and is by no means a rookie volunteer in the Tax Division. I have had the great pleasure of working with him on a v...

How to Avoid the "Why is My Bill So High" Phone Call from Clients

If you have been involved in billing at any level, you have gotten a phone call from a client who is asking: “why is my bill so high  ?” I know there have been times when I held my breath as I answ...