The Internal Revenue Service says it has identified 19 tax preparers who have applied for Preparer Tax Identification Numbers, but who did not tell the IRS that they had failed to disclose either a criminal tax conviction or their being permanently enjoined from preparing tax returns. Permanent injunctions are used by the Department of Justice to stop those who repeatedly prepare erroneous or fraudulent federal returns. Read more...

A Florida CPA who challenged a 24-month suspension of practice before the Internal Revenue Service has ended up with an 36-month bar.  Lawrence Legel, who was suspended for helping a client hide income, had challenged the longer suspension sought by the IRS's Office of Professional Responsibility and had won a two-year ban on a ruling by an administrative judge.

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eFileCabinet has released an integration with QuickBooks that will enable users to enter a variety of information into the small business software accounting package and have that data pulled into eFileCabinet and associated with supporting documents stored in the document management application. This includes profile data such as invoice numbers, check numbers and vendor names. Once information is entered in eFileCabinet users can search for keywords and retrieve files.

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