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Two CPAs have filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service claiming its collection of annual fees for Preparer Tax Identification Numbers is not legal. Minnesota CPA Adam Steele and Georgia CPA Brittany Montrois seek to have their litigation certified as a class action suit. The plaintiffs are seeking to have the fees halted and receive refunds on those paid since they were implemented in 2010. The IRS plan to require tax preparers be regulated was thrown out by a federal court early in 2013 and an appeal court agreed later the agency lacked the authority to enforce such regulations. CPAs, Enrolled Agents and tax attorneys were exempt from proposed requirements for competency testing and mandate education courses. However, the court rulings let the PTIN requirements stand, following the litigation brought by another group of preparers. This year, the IRS began rolling out a voluntary plan for education and registration. That is being contested in court by the American Institute of CPAs, which says the IRS also lacks the authority to implement those procedures. In the latest case, the plaintiffs are arguing that only a small portion of the PTIN fees are being used for that process and that the remainder are going to other IRS activities and therefore represent an illegal tax. http://www.theprogressiveaccountant.com/Tax/suit-challenges-irs-right-to-collect-ptin-fees#comments

Sign me up. Tom Newark, CA

Don't let your spouse watch those home improvement programs, you'll be sorry.

There were/are other suits. I hope we win one of these.

I knew I could depend on everyone's support. This job started as a strip the wallpaper and paint, she said it would only take 2 days like they said on the show. Not my bathroom...so I come to find that the walk in shower water control was loose. Needed to open a wall to get in there and brace everything. Then she thought an efficient water flow toilet would be nice. That medicine chest you see should be recessed, I'll be fixing that. New fixtures on the vanity may as well be done as my new knee pads are getting broken in. It's like a new client who says, I don't have much, won't take long at all, not long at all. It'll be a week for this one, but at least I could say, she's appreciative, and that's a lot more than you get from many clients. Thank you all, you made me smile, makes me forget the back pain.

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