My Tax Blog

The IRS issued notice that Tax Preparers who have already been issued a PTIN (preparers tax identification number) will have up until December 31st, 2013, to complete their testing requirement.  The test will be administered at over 260 Prometric locations across the US, and will be partially “open-book”.  The testing facilities will provide copies of […]

Federal Direct’s Corporate office will be closed this Monday 9/5/2011 in observance of the Labor Day holiday. We will reopen Tuesday 9/6/2011 at 9:00am EST.

The official deadline for electronically filing 2010 individual tax returns has been extended from October 15th to October 17th. This date coincides with the due date for your clients that filed an extension request earlier in the year. The reason for the extension was due to the 15th falling on a weekend. If you are […]

If you are looking to grow your tax business, you should not overlook ITIN application and filing services. The undocumented Immigrant marketing in the United States is a constantly growing source for new clients, and their need for ITIN processing is grows right along with them. This webinar will cover what an ITIN is, and […]

The IRS released statistics showing total filing figures for the country along with individual state statistics also. One of the most notable statistics reported was that there was nearly 2 million (1,730,061) fewer tax returns filed for the 2009 tax year versus the 2008 tax year. Many sources relate this to the economic downturn in […]