Elrod Posted October 4, 2012 Report Share Posted October 4, 2012 From th IRS website - Data current as of 10/01/2012......There's a lot of us..Huh? Number of Individuals with Current Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTINs) for 2012† 729,488 Professional Credentials‡ Attorneys 32,134 Certified Public Accountants 214,720 Enrolled Actuaries 545 Enrolled Agents 43,403 Enrolled Retirement Plan Agents 554 Registered Tax Return Preparers 22,332 Other Categories Supervised Preparers* 57,049 Non-1040 Preparers* 45,930 Preparers with provisional PTINs who have not yet passed the RTRP test 325,203 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cred65 Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 These numbers add up to 742K. There are supposed to be 1,200,000 tax preparers, so what happened to the unaccounted for 458K? You can tell that this is an election year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elrod Posted October 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 They became unbalanced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion EA Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 They voted early in Ohio. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack from Ohio Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 They voted early in Ohio. I am waiting for my ballot to be mailed to me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jainen Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 >>what happened to the unaccounted for 458K?<< It's not surprising that less than 3% of attorneys have registered to prepare taxes, but how do you explain the missing half of CPA's and even the 20% of supposedly tax specialist enrolled agents that haven't applied? Not to mention the seasonal shopping mall employees who are the target of the PTIN program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcjenkins Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Lots of CPAs don't do anything except accounting and/or auditing and don't want to take on the responsibility of staying up to date in tax law just to do an occasional return. Also, those 20% of EAs are probably retired, or about to retire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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