Busy Season 2015: Fixing the Tax System

tax frustrationHow tax professionals would remake the tax code. 

Imagine there’s no deductions,
it’s easy if you try.
No 8965, no1095-A,
above us, only sky.
Imagine all the CPAs,
Living for today

By CPA Trendlines Research

There’s nothing like another tax season to prod accountants into imagining about ways to reform the nation’s tax system. In the this year’s CPA Trendlines Busy Season Barometer, some CPAs have specific suggestions; others are calling on the profession to take a leadership role in the national conversation.

Register your comments here: CPA Trendlines 2-Minute Survey: Fix the Tax System

CPA Trendlines is polling the profession with a two-minute survey asking for specific recommendations for changing the code, the regs, the instructions and the forms – whatever it takes to make life easier for CPAs and the American taxpayer. (The call was not to reduce or increase taxes, just to simplify them.)

The earliest responses call for a diverse set of approaches: