This course will satisfy the required 20 hours of Continuing Education for California Tax Preparers, and will cover the required topics of ethics, federal updates, federal tax law, and California-specific tax law.

AYPO offers this 30-hour course for Oregon tax preparers to meet all of the continuing education requirements for renewal.

In the course, we'll review federal filing requirements, and the guidelines for the various filing statuses. It will also cover gross income, adjustments to income that taxpayers may require, and federal credits that are available. Special topics that we will look at include taxation on rental income and on expenses of rentals; using Schedules C, F, J, and SE; and additions to income such as child tax credits and the Alternative Minimum Tax.

The course will conclude with the mandatory Ethics class. Each class included in this package will be followed by a brief quiz.

This course will satisfy the required 2 hours of Ethics for Tax Preparers and will cover the basic concepts of ethics, the different types of professional ethics, terms that will be used when referencing ethics, ethical duties of tax preparers, unethical tax actions and their consequences, and what a sample code of professional responsibility for tax preparers looks like.

In this class we will specifically address California tax law. We will start with an overview of the federal tax changes which will affect 2018 tax returns, and look at how California does or does not conform to them.