If you have returns to send, send them today, tomorrow, or after the holiday. E-filing and e-services systems will be unavailable from midnight Eastern Time on Friday, May 24, through 7 a.m. EST on Tuesday, May 28.
From everyone at Federal Direct, we wish you happy tidings this holiday season. Spending time with the ones you love is one of life’s greatest treasures. Federal Direct main office will be closing Friday, Dec.21st at 7pm and remain closed until Wednsday, Dec. 26th at 9am.
The Federal Direct corporate office will close at 1pm this afternoon in observance of Thanksgiving and will remain closed until Monday, the 26th. We wish you and your families all the togetherness and happiness that holidays can bring. Send any emergency contact requests to support@fd.tax
E-filing for taxes in 2018 will be shut down on November 17th at 10 pm filing center time. The shut down marks the beginning of preparation for the upcoming tax filing season which is slated to begin in mid to late January 2019. Once e-filing is turned back on, tax returns for 2016, 2017 and […]
If you are a FD partner and would like a nice pop up stand for your office or retail location, send an email to mkg@fd.tax. Be sure to give your shipping address. These stands are about 5 ft tall and about 2 ft wide. We will send these out free of charge as long as […]
Identity theft is a problem that affects millions of Americans and that nondescript number is growing exponentially. Years ago, there were fewer people filing fewer fraudulent returns, but now, with the ease of e-file and the lax security of some office’s document retention procedures, there are thousands of people who have built a type of […]
President Obama has openly and vehemently criticized the new corporate strategy of lowering its tax burden. This new strategy is called inversion, and for those who aren’t well versed in tax code, it’s a process by which a corporation buys a foreign corporation in order to take that corporation’s tax home which, in turn, lowers […]
Yet another tax relief company now faces the long arm of the law after having been found guilty of challenged practices including fraudulently misrepresenting the company services in order to con more people. The FTC is mailing out 16 million dollars to over 18 thousand former clients of American Tax Relief. Apparently, each consumer will […]
The Senate Finance Committee has introduced bipartisan legislation to improve protection for taxpayers against fraudulent tax refund claims made with stolen identities. The refund theft tax bill includes new assistance for taxpayers who have been victims of identity theft and requires the Internal Revenue Service to establish a new security feature that individuals can use […]
It’s the biggest city in the nation, so reasonable it would have a proportionally higher crime rate, right? Yes, even for taxes. New York state recently sent out 56 tax suspension letters. 40 preparers seem to have accepted the judgement and the other 16 preparers are challenging the action. Due to the increased tax-related crimes, […]