Posts Tagged ‘clients’

Kiplinger Tax Letter May 14, 2010 (The Kiplinger Tax Letter)

Dear Clients, Congress is starting work on taxes again. Taxwriters took a break after passing health care, but are now returning their attention to the tax code. The goal is to OK a bill before Memorial Day. A host of expired tax breaks will be revived for this year, retroactive to Jan Read the rest of this entry »

Kiplinger Tax Letter January 22, 2010 (The Kiplinger Tax Letter)

Dear Clients, Unenrolled preparers face a brave new world. IRS is launching a plan to regulate them. It includes requirements for registration, testing and continuing education for paid return preparers who are not enrolled agents, attorneys or CPAs... even those who prepare just one return a year for pay. But the new plan won't affect 2009 returns, and parts of it will take several years to implement. Start with the registration requirement. For the first time, unenrolled preparers will apply to the IRS for a preparer ID number, paying a fee when they sign up Read the rest of this entry »

Last.fm: 12 Ways to Scrobble

“Audio Scrobbling,” as defined by Last.fm, is the act of submitting to a central database the details of what songs you’ve been listening to (what album, by who and when you listened). Scrobbling to Last.fm is the main reason I use the service these days, especially since it made the internet radio part of it a paid subscription only service for Australia Read the rest of this entry »