One morning over breakfast, a young Raymond Berardinelli’s mother asked him what his plan was after high school. He would be graduating soon and needed a little direction. His mother had always encouraged him to go to college, but Raymond was thinking more along the lines of going to trade school. His plan was to become a ...…
The $1.4 million program was set up to distribute 2010 tax refunds on reloadable prepaid debit cards. The Treasury Department selected 808,000 low to moderate-income tax filers to participate and receive their tax refunds electronically rather than by paper checks. It costs...…
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For the past 6 years Drake Software has consistently been rated #1 by members of the NATP for their Sorting out Software Survey. Drake ranked first in areas such as Overall Satisfaction, Customer Service, Conversion, Price, and Ease of Installation.…
Finding Ways for Accounting Professionals to Increase Revenue: Providing clients with the trust they desire in an accounting professional, explaining to them all you can do to help them increase their revenue, teaching them what a difference the knowledge of an accounting professional can make, and...…
This expansion of the “Fresh Start” initiative focuses on the financial analysis used to determine which taxpayers qualify for an OIC. Here are the OIC changes:…
Francina stayed with that company, even relocating to Michigan, and worked her way up to eventually running several branches. “Every day when I went to that cubicle, I imagined that I was walking into my own office. I treated every one of those customers as though they were my own personal clients.”…
For Debbie Gellatly, getting started in the tax preparation business was certainly an uphill climb, if not an outright attempt to move mountains. When her contemporaries were in college, Debbie was getting married. (She was widowed at age 22, while expecting her first daughter.)…
Sandy’s dedication reaches beyond her family and clients. She has been a member of the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP) for 21 years and was chosen by the NATP as its 2009 Tax Professional of the Year. “It means so much to me to be chosen,” she says. “It says the work I do matters. When your peers choose you, that is pretty life changing.”…
