The IRS requires all paid preparers who anticipate preparing and filing 11 or more individual returns during a calendar year to e-file those returns. Members of firms must count returns in the aggregate. A summary of the new requirements appears in the IRS Most Tax Return Preparers Must Use IRS e-file webpage.
The measures are intended to help protect taxpayers from incompetent and unethical preparers, promote greater tax law compliance, and increase confidence in the tax system.
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