The IRS makes it more of a hassle each year to comply with deadlines, additional requirements, and new tax laws. At the same time, there is less and less support and customer service from the IRS. It can often take an hour or more to get through to talk to someone, and clients do not have the time to wait to talk to someone at the IRS.
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Gina DeVine, CPA
11 years ago
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This bill of rights is on target. Common sense should drive IRS strategy and has been absent of late. Practitioners with ready access to knowledgable IRS staff can be an efficient strategy to resolve taxpayer issues, which would save many more budget dollars than the proposed cuts.
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Janet Hara
11 years ago
This bill of rights is fair to the tax payers and their practitioners.
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Nancy J Kramer
11 years ago
NSA is spot-on with this Practitioner Bill of Rights. The tax practitioners and the IRS need and deserve the resources necessary to serve our country.
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Gregg Taketa
11 years ago
The IRS must adequately support tax practitioners because they play an important role in ensuring that our voluntary tax system works.
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Victor Robertson
11 years ago
This is also in the best interest of the United States of America, as well as tax preparers and taxpayers, and is fair and just.
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Brian Iwata
11 years ago
It is about time that an organization is standing up for the tax practitioners.
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Heshy Katz
11 years ago
Very sensible & practical requests
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Novalynn Klabacka
11 years ago
I completely agree support and stand by these proposed bill of rights. We need to be able to restaint the trust and confidence of our clients. When we are not given the proper support by the irs we are unable to communicate our professional competence and expertise to our clients. We must be able to obtain accurate information in a timely manner as well as timely answers and results for our clients. If we are to be regulated and held accountable for our knowledge and professionalism then the irs should be held to the same as well. If we were to provide responses to our clients in the same time frames that the irs has provided this year, we would be prohibited from providing tax services from the public.
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L. Eddie Btown
11 years ago
A good start but not all that is needed.
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Joseph F McGuire III
11 years ago
Congress needs to grow up!
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Dianne Olson, E.A.
11 years ago
I am all for this. We are completely beat down in this occupation by an agency that does not have accountability, but we have to.
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Sara R Edson
11 years ago
These are common sense guidelines that would greatly benefit the taxpayers and preparers.
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Robert Freidson, EA
11 years ago
The IRS moratorium on audits, collections, etc. should include the period between Feb 1 - April 15, not simply 3 weeks before 3/15 and 4/15 during that period.
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Sotiros S Pisanis
11 years ago
I like the NSA Tax Practitioner Bill of Rights its long over due.
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Diane C Giordano
11 years ago
Having tax laws passed and forms available on a timely basis gives all of us time to understand changes and not be held up for weeks waiting for software updates to forms. Since we still need to meet the same deadlines I am frustrated when I lose valuable time preparing and even more so when updates are made and I must take time to amend a return.
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Dennis Nevin
11 years ago
Much needed changes to the way the IRS is forced to operate today.
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Rose Farley
11 years ago
I have prepared tax returns since 1982. I have NEVER experienced the frustrations I felt this one. Something has to change or tax payers will suffer even more than they do now.
Long long overdue
I agree to the petition items stated.
The IRS makes it more of a hassle each year to comply with deadlines, additional requirements, and new tax laws. At the same time, there is less and less support and customer service from the IRS. It can often take an hour or more to get through to talk to someone, and clients do not have the time to wait to talk to someone at the IRS.
This bill of rights is on target. Common sense should drive IRS strategy and has been absent of late. Practitioners with ready access to knowledgable IRS staff can be an efficient strategy to resolve taxpayer issues, which would save many more budget dollars than the proposed cuts.
This bill of rights is fair to the tax payers and their practitioners.
NSA is spot-on with this Practitioner Bill of Rights. The tax practitioners and the IRS need and deserve the resources necessary to serve our country.
The IRS must adequately support tax practitioners because they play an important role in ensuring that our voluntary tax system works.
This is also in the best interest of the United States of America, as well as tax preparers and taxpayers, and is fair and just.
It is about time that an organization is standing up for the tax practitioners.
Very sensible & practical requests
I completely agree support and stand by these proposed bill of rights. We need to be able to restaint the trust and confidence of our clients. When we are not given the proper support by the irs we are unable to communicate our professional competence and expertise to our clients. We must be able to obtain accurate information in a timely manner as well as timely answers and results for our clients. If we are to be regulated and held accountable for our knowledge and professionalism then the irs should be held to the same as well. If we were to provide responses to our clients in the same time frames that the irs has provided this year, we would be prohibited from providing tax services from the public.
A good start but not all that is needed.
Congress needs to grow up!
I am all for this. We are completely beat down in this occupation by an agency that does not have accountability, but we have to.
These are common sense guidelines that would greatly benefit the taxpayers and preparers.
The IRS moratorium on audits, collections, etc. should include the period between Feb 1 - April 15, not simply 3 weeks before 3/15 and 4/15 during that period.
I like the NSA Tax Practitioner Bill of Rights its long over due.
Having tax laws passed and forms available on a timely basis gives all of us time to understand changes and not be held up for weeks waiting for software updates to forms. Since we still need to meet the same deadlines I am frustrated when I lose valuable time preparing and even more so when updates are made and I must take time to amend a return.
Much needed changes to the way the IRS is forced to operate today.
I have prepared tax returns since 1982. I have NEVER experienced the frustrations I felt this one. Something has to change or tax payers will suffer even more than they do now.