Tax Return Preparation

If you haven’t filed your personal or business taxes, you still have time to keep your New Year’s resolution — get organized, file your taxes early, and avoid an extension.

Scratch-off tickets and sweepstakes drawings are among incentives being offered by tax-return preparation services nationwide to lure an estimated 8 million filers who hire professionals to complete their returns.

ARMONK, N.Y.—-As if Income Tax Day didn’t cause enough anxiety, the rise of digital data keeping, commercial tax software and e-filing has created a new source of heartburn for taxpayers: data loss.

MASON CITY — Mary Duggan, owner of Duggan Tax Service, received $10,000 in funding from the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center’s Revolving Loan Fund, the Center announced Tuesday.

BELLEVUE, Wash.—-As Tax Day quietly sneaks up on filers, many Americans are grappling to understand the 2006 tax laws — energy-saving tax credits, expanded retirement savings incentives, telephone tax credits and new rules for claiming charitable contributions.

Winchester — A Winchester woman has been charged in federal court with preparing fraudulent tax returns. A thirteen-count indictment was handed down against Katrina Stine-Hanson, 47, by a federal grand jury sitting in Roanoke on Thursday.

Washington (March 12, 2007) - The U.S. Tax Court found that a non-CPA tax preparation and bookkeeping business is an accounting service and subject to the 35 percent tax applicable to qualified personal service corporations.

A Nashville man has been sentenced to just over a year in federal prison after pleading guilty this week to two counts of filing false tax claims.

With the boom in online tax filing, some predicted that tax return preparation companies soon would be a thing of the past. The Internal Revenue Service began a big push for electronic filing several years ago.

LEWISTOWN — The April 17 tax deadline is approaching rapidly and the Internal Revenue Service estimates nearly 50 percent of Pennsylvania residents fi…