Required Testing for preparers

[veritas]

According to a GAO report preparers of federal returns should be required to take a test to prove proficiency. Senators are in the process of sponsoring a bill called " The Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2005".

Now I find it odd that those knuckleheads can't protect us from terrorists, illegal, immigrants, soaring energy costs, reckless spending. But they can protect us from bad tax preparers?

[JoshinNC]

They won't be able to protect us from that either!

If they can't take care of the high profile issues, what makes you think they'll find a way to protect us from a few bad apples in the tax profession?

EA, CPA, JD, they all are great to have, but experience and determination to continue to learn are what make a great preparer.

[Bees Knees]

According to a GAO report preparers of federal returns should be required to take a test to prove proficiency. Senators are in the process of sponsoring a bill called " The Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2005".

Maybe a law should be passed where members of Congress are required to take a proficiency test before they can mess with the Internal Revenue Code. It could be called "The Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2005."

[Armando Beaujolais]

According to a GAO report preparers of federal returns should be required to take a test to prove proficiency. Senators are in the process of sponsoring a bill called " The Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act of 2005".

Now I find it odd that those knuckleheads can't protect us from terrorists, illegal, immigrants, soaring energy costs, reckless spending. But they can protect us from bad tax preparers?

Is this the same "taxpayer protection" bill that will authorize preparers to sell client information to third parties?

[Gretel]

Is this the same "taxpayer protection" bill that will authorize preparers to sell client information to third parties?

This is my question, too. All lawmakers should take an efficiency test in common sense and all people affected by bad laws should stand up and say: enough is enough.

Very few people who could administer test and almost all people on the other side.

[KJ Judd]

Thanks, Bees!

I second Bees' idea! I laughed out loud.

[Black Bart]

Never met a lawyer (JD)

JD

yet who knew beans about taxes.