Category: Get More Tax Clients

Live Webinars – Week of May 25-29, 2020

Employee Retention Credit… IRS Statutes of Limitation… Cybersecurity… Content marketing — That’s what’s on tap this week. Let’s dive in!

Monday, May 25, 1pm PDT (4pm EDT)
Content Marketing Essentials For Tax Firms
Join yours truly for an exploration of this important business development topic. Whether online or offline, whether bookkeeping or tax resolution, whether truckers or doctors, content marketing is one of your most essential marketing activities. We’ll discuss the core components of your content marketing strategy, typical costs you’ll face for getting various things done, and look at some examples of content marketing being done by other tax and accounting professionals. Click here to register.

Tuesday, May 26, 11am PDT (2pm EDT)
IRS Statutes of Limitation: ASED, CSED, RSED
Dan Henn, CPA delivers an updated edition of his classic 1-hour CE/CPE class on statutes of limitation for assessment, collection, and refund. If you’re engaging in taxpayer representation, then understanding these three areas of statute are fundamental to properly representing your clients. Click here to register.

Wednesday, May 27, 10am PDT (1pm EDT)
Cybersecurity: The Current State & How To Protect Your Firm, Part II
The second in our two-part CPE series presented by cloud service provider Coaxis Hosting will focus on data security and regulatory compliance within your IT systems. Tax professionals are a frequent target of cybercriminals, due to the sensitive nature of the client data we store. We all have a legal and ethical responsibility to safeguard our client data, so this is a topic you should be learning as much about as you can right now. This class is free, and provides 1 hr of CPE for CPAs. Click here to register.

Thursday, May 28, 10am PDT (1pm EDT)
Exploring Payroll Tax Options with Chrisa Anderson, CPA
While most of the media attention has been given to the PPP loan program, the reality is that small businesses have other options to help them address their payroll costs during the current recession. On this fireside chat (no CPE), my guest Chrisa Anderson, CPA will join me to discuss these other options, including the Employee Retention Credit, that are available to your business clients. We will discuss the decision making process that goes into selecting the right option for your client, as well as how to use these payroll tax options as a marketing opportunity to help grow your practice. Click here to register.

Friday, May 29, 7am Continue reading

When your clients do better, you do better

We are in the profession of helping others. It’s what we do.

It also just so happens that the way in which we do it pays very well.

It’s a win for you, a win for your clients, and a win for society as a whole.

But here’s something you may not think about very often, but is an eternal truth: When your clients make more money, YOU make more money.

The more money your clients have to invest, or the bigger their business grows, the more of your services they consume.

Thus, doesn’t it make sense that you do everything you can to help them grow?

Providing strategic coaching to your clients, to guide them towards greater prosperity, is a service that you can offer. You become a critical asset to the financial well-being of your clients.

How to provide this particular service is the subject of my conversation with Joey Brannon, CPA, tomorrow. If you have any interest in helping your clients grow as people and business owners, you’re going to want to tune in this webinar. Join us tomorrow at 10am PDT (1pm EDT). Go here to register:

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Current Status of IRS Customer Service Phone Lines

As of 8:00am PDT, May 11, 2020

Practitioner Priority Service (866-860-4259): OPEN

Individual ACS (800-829-7650): OPEN

Business ACS (800-829-3903): OPEN

Main taxpayer assistance line (800-829-1040): CLOSED

Business/Specialty Tax Line (800-829-4933): CLOSED

Tax Exempt/Government Entities hotline (877-829-5500): CLOSED

e-Services Help Desk (866-255-0654): OPEN

Centralized Lien Unit (800-913-6050): OPEN

CAF Units are still closed.… Continue reading