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IRS, AICPA urge practitioners to file tax returns electronically.


At the 2001 AICPA AICPA

See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).
 National Conference on Federal Taxes, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Charles, archduke of Austria
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 Rossotti and Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson Olson may refer to:
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 urged practitioners to file tax returns electronically whenever possible this year. They emphasized that all 1040 forms and schedules are now capable of being processed electronically, so that a major barrier to e-filing has been removed for CPAs preparing complex individual returns.

In light of mail disruptions and a significant increase in hazardous or suspicious materials incidents at IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws.  Service Centers, Rossotti and Olson asked CPAs to use e-filing options to both reduce the volume of paper handled by Service employees and speed up return processing.

Responding to these IRS pleas, Pamela Pecarich, chair of the AICPA's Tax Executive Committee, encourages CPAs to accelerate their moves into electronic return filing. The AICPA Tax Division will continue to work with the IRS to expedite ex·pe·dite  
tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites
1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate.

2.
 e-filing procedures. For more information on e-filing, visit the IRS e-file Web site at:

www.irs.gov/elec_svs/ets2.html
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Title Annotation:Internal Revenue Service, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Publication:CPA Letter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Dec 1, 2001
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