The Internal Revenue Service has made several enhancement to Tax Pro Account. These include helping practitioners manage their active client authorizations on file with the Centralized Authorization File database.
This includes the ability to send Power of Attorney and Tax Information Authorization requests directly to a taxpayer’s individual IRS Online Account. One a taxpayer has approved such requests, the authorization records are save immediately to the CAF database, Tax professionals must have a CAF number to use a Tax Pro Account;
Other enhancements enables tax professionals to view a client’s tax information, including balance due amounts. Tax Pro Account users can now also withdraw from active authorizations online in real time.
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind
