The factors that undermine an otherwise better busy season.
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By CPA Trendlines
According to the final results of the CPA Trendlines 2016 Busy Season Survey, this has been a relatively good year…better than last year, anyway. A good 60 percent of respondents said 2016 was much better or somewhat better than 2015.
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Which, admittedly, isn’t saying much. Last year was a bad year, a perfect storm of problems. It left 19 percent grousing about a “somewhat worse” busy season, another 3 percent saying it was “much worse.”
Could 2016 really be worse than 2015, especially given that it was so much better for so many tax preparers? Yep.
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