The results are in!  The winners of the second annual St. Patrick’s Day Tax Filing Contest are as follows: Bank Funded Returns: 1st. Place:  Farrell’s Tax & Services, LLC  ($250 and a FD Laptop bag) 2nd place: Friendly Tax Service (FD Laptop bag) Honorable Mention: RGS Tax Services, St. Louis Tax Service, Maydelin Martell Agency […]

Expect more undercover IRS secret shoppers and undercover office visits.  In light of a recent incident involving a volunteer preparer, these visits will be increasing in numbers.  These visits are designed to unsure compliance with the IRS regulations, and almost everyone knows about them.  The recent incident regards a volunteer tax preparer who told a […]

Donating the final use of your home may not be tax deductible as a charitable donation.  It is common, in cases were people are going to demolish an existing building and rebuild, that the existing building may be donated as gift to the local fire department for the purpose of teaching,training, etc. an exercise in […]

The IRS has delayed the start of the e-file season to 9am Eastern 1/17/2011

Federal Direct will be closed this Thursday – Saturday, 11/24 – 11/26 in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.  We will reopen on Monday 11/28 at 9am Eastern.