{"id":4193,"date":"2010-11-13T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2010-11-13T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T23:09:00","slug":"cleaning-pressing-and-alterations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4193","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning, Pressing, and Alterations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has an article about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/perfi\/taxes\/2010-11-11-irs-tax-preparers_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">paid tax preparers are going to have to demonstrate certain competancy standards to get a preparer ID number and submit returns<\/a>. It notes that those who are not CPAs, lawyers or IRS-enrolled agents will have to pass a competency test and meet annual continuing-education requirements. As usual, what gets me are the comments.<\/p>\n<p>When you read them, you see an intense hatred of the IRS (justified) and of CPAs (not justified). Now, I\u2019m an oddity. I\u2019ve always used a CPA to prepare my tax return. Perhaps that\u2019s because my mom was a CPA (one of the first women CPAs in California), and my dad was a PA and EA, and my father-in-law was a CPA. I\u2019ve always seen the advantages of using one. They help with tax planning; they keep abreast of all the nuances of the law to that I can (a) stay legal and (b) not pay more than I need to pay. I know there are those that prefer to do it on their own or via Quicken\/TurboTax&mdash;to each their own. We prefer to use a CPA.<\/p>\n<p>So reading the comments irks me. CPAs are professionals. Most are sole-practitioners or work at small firms. These are the small businessmen and business women that help the community and provide a fair amount of employment. What is it about society today that makes people have antipathy towards the educated professional, be it the accountant, doctor, lawyer, or engineer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has an article about how paid tax preparers are going to have to demonstrate certain competancy standards to get a preparer ID number and submit returns. It notes that those who are not CPAs, lawyers or IRS-enrolled agents will have to pass a competency test and meet annual continuing-education requirements. As usual, what <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4193\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}