Processes Do Not Ensure That Complaints Against Tax Return Preparers Are Timely, Accurately, and Consistently Processed

Download or read book Processes Do Not Ensure That Complaints Against Tax Return Preparers Are Timely, Accurately, and Consistently Processed written by United States Department of the Treasury and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tax return preparers serve a critical role in tax administration and represent an important intermediary between taxpayers and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS processed about 77 million individual electronically filed (e-filed) Federal income tax returns prepared by paid tax return preparers in Calendar Year (CY) 2013. Figure 1 shows the most common types and number of return preparers as of January 3, 2014.