Thomson Reuters has moved the venue and date for its 30th Annual Users Conference to the Gaylord National Hotel near Washington, D.C., following the floods that damaged the sister Gaylord Opryland in Nashville earlier this year. The conference is for users of the company's products for tax and accounting professionals, such as UltraTax CS and Write-Up CS.

Although the Internal Revenue Service will require competency testing for paid tax return preparers who are not CPAs, Enrolled Agents or Tax Attorneys, those who register for an identification number before tests are available would have three years before they must undergo the examinations. Those remarks were made this week by David R. Williams, the Internal Revenue Service executive lead for implementation for the program, at the board of directors meeting of the National Society of Accountants.

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