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  • veritas
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2005
    • 3290

    #1

    Required Testing for preparers

    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
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2006
    • 1180

    #2
    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.

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    • Bees Knees
      Senior Member
      • May 2005
      • 5456

      #3
      Originally posted by 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".
      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."

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      • Armando Beaujolais
        Senior Member
        • May 2005
        • 504

        #4
        Originally posted by 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?
        Is this the same "taxpayer protection" bill that will authorize preparers to sell client information to third parties?

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        • Gretel
          Senior Member
          • Jun 2005
          • 4008

          #5
          Originally posted by Armando Beaujolais
          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.

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          • KJ Judd
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2006
            • 328

            #6
            Thanks, Bees!

            I second Bees' idea! I laughed out loud.

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            • Black Bart
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2005
              • 3357

              #7
              Never met a lawyer (JD)

              Originally posted by JoshinNC

              JD
              yet who knew beans about taxes.

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