The Accounting Podcast

It's tax season! (and the best time to steal your competitors' clients)

Jan 15, 2020

59:14

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Show Notes

05:31 – Fresh back from the Sage Accountants Advisory Council, in Dallas, Blake is basking in brisket afterglow and ready to talk cloud accounting!
06:21 – David takes a field trip to a real accounting firm!
07:53 – It’s tax season! Yay … | Accounting Today
08:41 – Are IRS audits becoming an endangered activity? | CNBC
11:51 – When the IRS fails to collect from cheaters, it costs everyone else up to $3K | Accounting Today
15:25 – Wanna get new biz for your firm? Start during tax season! | CPA Trendlines
17:08 – IRS calls open season on tax-prep competition, and gives the Free File program a makeover | ProPublica
19:43 – Straight from the source - Free File: File Your Taxes Online for Free | IRS
23:16 – According to a recent survey, accountants are upping their tech game and their advising skills! | AccountingWEB
29:56 – Hello Pot, this is Kettle – Is Amazon feeling too much heat from Honey? | PYMNTS
31:28 – California – Land of Confusion – When it comes to the new privacy law | Fox and Hounds Daily
35:42 – Way to keep that private info safe, Facebook! | Bloomberg
37:35 – No time like the present – the California Board of Accountancy switches to email distribution of its newsletter, just in time to let everyone know they raised their fees | CBA
39:30 – New Year's Bug Takes NYC Parking Meters Offline | PYMNTS
41:53 – Virtually screwed –Thomson Reuters’ Virtual Office goes down for the count … But at least they’re providing status updates! | Thomson Reuters
47:49 – What’s your favorite way of dealing with client 1099s? | CPA Trendlines
49:51 – “Hey, you! Get off of my screen!” Chase just says no to screen-scrapers | Bank Innovation
51:51 – Do banking consumers really want to know who owns their bank data? | CNBC
54:43 – What is open banking, anyway? | American Banker

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