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IRS Loses Lawsuit Challenging Authority to Regulate Tax Preparers

The Internal Revenue has an order to cease and decease the examination and licensing process for paid tax preparers. SHould IRS paid damages to people who have taken and passed their illegal tests?
IRS Loses Lawsuit Challenging Authority to Regulate Tax Preparers
Washington, D.C. (January 18, 2013)

By Michael Cohn
In a stunning blow to the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to regulate the tax preparation profession, a federal judge struck down the IRS's licensing requirements for tax preparers on Friday, including testing and continuing education.
Three independent tax preparers—Sabina Loving of Chicago, John Gambino of Hoboken, N.J., and Elmer Kilian of Eagle, Wisc.—joined forces with the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, in filing suit against the IRS in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg ruled against the IRS and in favor of the tax preparers in enjoining the agency against enforcing its Registered Tax Return Preparer requirements.

Posted by Herbert Joseph

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