Volunteers needed for 2003 USA Today tax hotline and tax chats.CPA (Computer Press Association, Landing, NJ) An earlier membership organization founded in 1983 that promoted excellence in computer journalism. Its annual awards honored outstanding examples in print, broadcast and electronic media. The CPA disbanded in 2000. tax practitioners are needed to staff USA Today's 2003 tax hotline 1. (company) Hotline - Hotline Communications Ltd.. 2. (messaging) Hotline - Hotline Connect. and its weekly online tax chats that are conducted throughout the tax filing season. Each year the national newspaper and the AICPA AICPA See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). team up to offer readers and Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f an opportunity to get immediate answers from the tax experts. USA Today's tax hotline and tax chats offer participating CPAs a chance to provide a valuable public service during tax season, and the profession is showcased through coverage of the hotline in the following day's paper. USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. notifies its readers and Internet users of the upcoming tax hotline in the newspaper and on its Web site, and invites them to e-mail their questions. Questions and answers from the hotline are the foundation of the newspaper's follow-up story the following day. The tax chats also are advertised on the paper's Web site. Volunteers who participate in the hotline or the tax chats answer questions online for an hour using their own computer. USA Today has not selected the date for the hotline, but traditionally has chosen an early Mar. date. The tax chats last year were held on Fridays. Interested tax practitioners should contact: [telephone] Shirley Twillman, 202/434-9220 [internet] stwillman@aicpa.org |
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