Sales Tax & Compliance brought to you by >> Avalara Logo new12

The Progressive Accountant - Tax (1560)

Children categories

Tax 1547

The assets of NextPoint Financial, parent of chain Liberty Tax, have been sold after approval by a Canadian Court and under Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the United States.

Liberty and Canadian Community Tax will continue to operate under the ownership of BP Commercial Funding Trust, Series SPL-X

The action was spurred by NextPoint’s disastrous acquisition of LoanMe, which was supposed to be operated in tandem with Liberty as a one-stop consumer operation. NextPoint purchased both LoanMe and Liberty in 2021 but shuttered LoanMe for new loans in July 2023. NextPoint sued AmeriFirst Home Improvement Finance seeking millions of dollars in damage for the alleged failure of AmeriFirst to live up to the terms of a loan servicing contract.

LoanMe, which had continued to service existing loans, will be wound down. NextPoint’s announcement said there would be no assets to distribute to creditors

View items...

Block: DIY eFiles Artificially High

Increases in self-prepared efiles reported by the Internal Revenue Service are artificially high, H&R Block said this month. The company said in reporting its results for the year ended April 30 that the DIY total has been pushed up by those seeking government assistance

Read more...

IRS Guides on Leave-based Donations

The Internal Revenue Service says donations to charitable organizations that provide relief to victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in exchange for sick, vacation or personal leave which their employees forgo will not be treated as compensation. Gudiance was delivered under Notice 2020-46

Read more...

Thomson: Tax Departments Short on Resources

A majority of corporate tax departments do not have enough resources, according to a recently released study by Thomson Reuters. However the survey also showed that only one third of in-house units plan to increase their staffs.

Read more...

Self-Prepared Return Gains Continue

Self-prepared tax returns efiled with the Internal Revenue Service through May 29 have already exceeded the total for calendar year 2019 by 3.8 percent. While many balance due returns are likely to arrive near the extended filing deadline of July 15, the rise in do-it-yourself units demonstrates that category's continued gain in market share. 

Read more...

IRS to Add E-filing for 1040-X

The Internal Revenue Service said recently that during the summer taxpayers can electronically file Form 1040-X for the first time. Once the capability is available only 2019 Forms 1040 and 1040-SR returns can be amended electronically.

Read more...

Tax Season Delay Shifts Intuit Revenue

The extension of the income tax filing season  from April 15 to July 15 removed a chunk of revenue from Intuit’s results for the third quarter ended April 30. Consumer tax revenue was off by 15 percent and professional tax revenue by 17.8 percent.

Read more...

IRS Tax Forums Go Virtual

The Internal Revenue Service is holding the 2020 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums online in July and August. The live-streamed webinars will be July from July 21 through August 20.

Read more...

Wolters Kluwer: Sales Getting Tough

Wolters Kluwer has reported difficult selling conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. The company made the observations in its trading update for the first quarter ended March 31.

Read more...

Taxpayers Offered Virtual Settlement Days

Virtual Settlement Days are being offered to unrepresented taxpayers to help resolve pending cases before the United States Tax Court. The Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel reported the first two events for docketed cases will take place in Detroit or Atlanta. 

Read more...

Tax Stats: Edging Toward July 15

The number of tax returns received by the  Internal Revenue Service through April 24 suggests returns will come in at a gradual pace until the exended tax season deadline of July 15. The 121,892,000 received for the reported period to -date was down 12.5 percent from 139,364,000 received for the period ended April 26, 2019.

Read more...

Sales Tax Assessment Tool

The Accounting Top 100

Sales Tax Calculator

Social Leader board

The Accounting Top 100 social media leaderboard ranks accounting professionals based on their overall presence, influence, and engagement on social media platforms. Each user’s rank is determined by that user’s Klout Score in addition to a list of custom metrics, and all updated rankings are displayed in new leaderboards generated every two weeks.

Did you make the list?

Congratulations! You can now track your progress on the leaderboard by clicking “Follow us” at the top of the list. Want to get the word out about your new celebrity status? Share this page with all of your friends and followers so they can view and join in on this fun social activity.

Think you’ve got what it takes to make the Top 100?

Join for free today!

Disclaimer

Avalara’s Accounting Top 100 leaderboard (the “Leaderboard”) is assembled using a list of accounting professional users that’s curated by manual entry as well as by Rise.Global's internal Twitter search functionality. We reserve the right to change scoring metrics used for ranking and to exclude anyone from the list, in our sole discretion. The Leaderboard is not an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any of the accounting professionals on the Leaderboard, and we do not make any representation or guarantee of their ability or reliability. Assessments by different methods or based on different information may yield different results. The Leaderboard is only a starting point to gather information about accounting professionals, and you should not rely on it to decide whether to hire an accounting professional.

For feedback and/or questions please contact [email protected].

Visit other PMG Sites:

Template Settings

Color

For each color, the params below will give default values
Tomato Green Blue Cyan Dark_Red Dark_Blue

Body

Background Color
Text Color

Header

Background Color

Footer

Select menu
Google Font
Body Font-size
Body Font-family
Direction
PMG360 is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal data we collect from our subscribers/agents/customers/exhibitors and sponsors. On May 25th, the European's GDPR policy will be enforced. Nothing is changing about your current settings or how your information is processed, however, we have made a few changes. We have updated our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to make it easier for you to understand what information we collect, how and why we collect it.