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Busy Season 2016: More Health Care Headaches

… and clients likely will blame the preparer.

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Let’s give the Internal Revenue Service a break – but just for a second. The Affordable Care Act wasn’t easy for them, either.

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The ACA called for major overhauls of information technology, the issuing of guidance, collaboration with other federal agencies, and the processing of information from insurers and exchange. Generally speaking, the IRS handled the thorny can of worms reasonably well.
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Survey Results: Tax Professionals Call 2016 Busy Season Much Improved over Last Year

Rising economy, no big changes spell more clients, smoother operations.

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The 2015 busy season may go down in the annals of accountancy as one of the worst ever. And let’s hope that’s as bad as it ever gets.

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Remember a year ago? The roll-out of the Affordable Care Act, the revamped IRS forms coming out in February, a widespread need for new software, people getting sick, and then it snowed, and then it snowed some more.

This year’s looking a lot better, according to early responses to the CPA Trendlines 2016 Busy Season Barometer.

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Frank Longobardi: CohnReznick’s Battle for Top Talent

Newly named CEO launches bevy of programs to nurture skills at all levels.

By CPA Trendlines Staff

For Frank Longobardi, chief executive officer of CohnReznick, staffing is the biggest problem facing his and other CPA firms across the country.

imgres “The market is very competitive both in finding talent as well as in bringing in new clients,” he says. “Many firms face a lack of talent at the senior level and competition is also coming from private companies who look to hire managers and senior managers from public accounting firms.”

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ZTE Announces New Tablet-Projector Hybrid at Barcelona

What’s New at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress.

By Rick Richardson
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Another announcement at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this past week was ZTE’s new hybrid called the Spro Plus.

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The company says the new device could become your second-most-used gadget, after the smartphone.

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Tax Questions Up, Filings Down

Tax pros doing less than half of e-filings.

By CPA Trendlines

Visits to the IRS website are up 13 percent, but three weeks into the tax season, almost everything else was down.

IRS.gov saw 20 million more visitors than last year at this time, 175,958,748 as of Feb. 19, compared to 155,780,478 the same week in 2015.

Also up this year are e-filing receipts from self-preparers, with nearly 24.2 million received, up 3.1 percent from last year’s 23.4 million.
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