Continuing Education for Tax Professionals

This course will prepare credentialed tax preparers for the 2021 tax season (2020 tax year). Credentialed individuals such as licensed attorneys and CPAs, who are AFTR exempt, may take this course to begin or continue participation in the Annual Filing Season Program (AFSP).

In this course package, we'll cover:

• Inflation Adjustments and the Basis of Filing (3 Hours Tax Update)
• Self Employed Taxes and Dependent Exemptions, Gross Income, Capital Exchanges, and Property Basis (10 Hours Federal Tax Law)
• Ethics for Tax Preparers (2 Hours Ethics)

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.

This 24-hour course is a great refresher for enrolled agents, and will satisfy the ethics requirement as you complete one-third of your CE requirements. In this course, we'll cover important topics such as

• amended returns
• filing and paying business tax
• various forms of income
• adjustments to income
• various business expenses
• inflation adjustments and the basis of filing
• self employed taxes and dependant exemptions
• gross income, capital exchanges, and property basis
• ethics for tax professionals

This package was designed specifically for Oregon Tax Consultants and Preparers to renew their licenses. This course covers the Internal Revenue Service's Publication 17 with an introduction to ethics for tax profesionals, then moves into the federal filing requirements and dates, the different federal filing statuses, personal and dependent exemptions, gross income, and standard and itemized deductions. Our courses have been approved by the IRS to meet your CE needs.