Tax Return Preparers

PPC's Guide to Write-Up Services is the most comprehensive resource available on how to provide profitable bookkeeping and payroll services. The practical "how to" guidance, illustrations, practice aids, and illustrative IRS forms enable CPAs, staff accountants, paraprofessionals, and accountants in industry to efficiently provide write-up services. The Guide explains how to select software, accept clients, process data, and perform payroll and write-up services efficiently and while meeting professional standards.

Accounting firms aren't successful by chance. The days of annual double-digit firm growth are gone, and CPA firms of all sizes are facing challenges with loss of clients, lower revenues, and increased risk. Many accounting firms are looking for ways to reevaluate operations and take steps to fortify its practice against whatever the future may hold. The comprehensive guidance and practice aids included in PPC's Guide to Managing an Accounting Practice can help your firm be well-positioned to plan and adapt its services and resources in a changing environment.

QuickBooks is the best-selling management and accounting software for small businesses. PPC's QuickBooks Solutions: A Problem-solving Guide for Accounting Professionals assists you in working with your clients who use QuickBooks software. The Guide includes in-depth “how to” guidance and trouble-shooting tips for using QuickBooks, practice aids to help you through performing common QuickBooks tasks, marketing tips, and guidance on your reporting responsibilities when preparing QuickBooks financial statements.

PPC’s 5500 Deskbook provides line-by-line guidance for completing the Form 5500 series returns (Forms 5500, 5500-SF, 5500-EZ, 8955-SSA) and the related schedules. It provides an efficient approach to determining filing requirements, obtaining the information needed to complete the reporting requirements, and correctly completing the return. Guidance focuses on the tax return and includes real-life examples and illustrations of filled-in forms, as well as practice aids, to save you time and help you understand the basic concepts involved.

To be a successful tax return preparer, you need affordable tax resources that enable you to prepare returns accurately and efficiently. With more than 300 pages, the 1040 Quickfinder Handbook is your trusted source for quick reference to tax principles that apply when preparing individual income tax returns. It covers all aspects of preparing a Form 1040, including tax law changes and IRS developments, and is presented in a concise, easy-to-use format.

With more than 300 pages, the Small Business Quickfinder Handbook is your trusted source for quick reference to tax principles that apply when preparing business and fiduciary income, estate and gift, tax-exempt organization, and payroll tax returns. It covers the essentials of preparing these tax filings, including detailed, real-life examples with filled-in forms and line-by-line explanations, and thoroughly addresses tax law changes and IRS developments, all in a concise, easy-to-use format.

Get a complete, concise, and consistent summary of instructions for filling out-of-state individual income tax with the All States Quickfinder® Handbook. With more than 500 pages, the Handbook covers returns for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, presenting topics in a consistent form - making it faster and easier for you to find information for any state.

The Quickfinder Tax Tips Newsletter is a six-page monthly newsletter from the trusted source you rely on for fast, accurate, tax and financial planning information. Each month, the Newsletter brings you concise, easy-to-understand coverage of the latest essential tax developments including tax law changes, IRS releases, and court decisions, plus timely tax planning strategies that you can use to guide your clients. The Newsletter also includes a monthly calendar of important tax due dates.

PPC’s 706/709 Deskbook breaks down the complexities of federal estate, gift, and GST tax issues and provides clear guidance for preparing or reviewing Forms 706, 709, and related GST tax forms. This Deskbook leads you through the compliance process using a forms-based format, explaining the impact of recent important legislation, cases, and rulings. Streamline your client service by relying on our comprehensive, user-friendly guidance.  

PPC’s 990 Deskbook provides detailed, easy-to-understand, and affordable tax return guidance, complete with real life examples and illustrations of completed forms, so you or your staff can quickly and easily resolve and implement the key issues encountered when preparing tax returns for nonprofit organizations. It also provides workflow guidance, tools, and other practice aids to save time and help ensure returns are consistently and accurately prepared. It covers Forms 990, 990-T, 990-PF, and 1023.

PPC's Guide to Cash, Tax, and Other Bases of Accounting gives you clear guidance on other comprehensive basis of accounting financial statements. The Guide not only explains the unique measurement and disclosure requirements of each basis of accounting, but the reporting options as well. It comes with both cash basis and tax basis disclosure checklists, example financial statements that cover a variety of entity types, note disclosures, and tailored compilation and review practice aids.

PPC's Payroll Tax Deskbook provides the guidance needed to efficiently manage and administer year-end and quarterly payroll reporting. It provides protection against costly payroll compliance penalties by furnishing the latest judicial, legislative, and administrative developments needed to comply with all federal withholding, deposit, and reporting requirements in an effective and efficient manner for a particular filing year. It also provides easy-to-understand coverage of other important payroll topics such as worker classification and Section 530 relief and paying U.S. citizens and resident aliens working abroad.

Given the IRS’s renewed interest in examining pass-through returns and emphasis on practitioner due diligence, proper preparation of your clients' returns is more important than ever. With the key issues, examples, filled-in Schedule K-1s and other forms, checklists, worksheets, and other quality control tools in PPC’s 1120S Deskbook, you and your staff can solve the difficult or unclear issues encountered when preparing Form 1120. The Deskbook points out elections and other tax-saving opportunities while preparing the return; plus, the tax planning roadmap highlights post-busy season planning opportunities that you and your staff.

PPC’s 1041 Deskbook cuts through the complexity of preparing fiduciary income tax returns and provides practical step-by-step guidance on the basics of Form 1041 preparation as well as more complex issues such as determining fiduciary accounting income and distributable net income (DNI), computing the distribution deduction, allocating capital gains and depreciation, reporting income in respect of a decedent, filing Form 1041 in the estate or trust's final year, understanding the reporting requirements for foreign trusts and charitable trusts, and more.

Given the IRS's emphasis on practitioner due diligence, proper preparation of your clients' returns is more important than ever. With the key issues, examples tied to filled-in forms, checklists, worksheets, and other quality control tools you'll find in PPC's 1120 Deskbook, you and your staff can solve the difficult, unclear, or misunderstood issues encountered when preparing Form 1120. The Deskbook points out elections and other tax-saving opportunities to take advantage of while preparing the return; plus, the tax planning roadmap highlights planning opportunities that you and your staff can pursue after busy season.

Partnerships are a “top priority” for the Small Business/Self-Employed (SB/SE) Division, according to the SB/SE Commissioner. With the key issues, examples, filled-in Schedule K-1s and other forms, checklists, worksheets, and other quality control tools you’ll find in PPC’s 1065 Deskbook, you and your staff can solve the difficult or unclear issues encountered when preparing Form 1065. The Deskbook points out elections and other tax-saving opportunities while preparing the return; plus, the tax planning roadmap highlights planning opportunities that you and your staff can pursue after busy season.

PPC’s 1040 Deskbook provides detailed, easy-to-understand, and affordable tax return focused guidance, complete with real-life examples and illustrations of filled-in forms, so owners and/or staff can quickly and easily resolve the key issues encountered when preparing individual tax returns. The Deskbook provides workflow guidance, tools and other practice aids that will save time, help ensure returns are accurately prepared, and enable owners and/or staff to identify potential tax planning opportunities for clients.

Quickfinder Tax Tables for Individual Returns is a durable, laminated fold-out resource that provides the Quickfinder tables and charts you use most often in an easy-to-use reference format. This tool allows you to quickly answer client questions without searching through multiple pages. You'll always keep important tax facts and figures at your fingertips with the Quickfinder Tax Tables.

The Depreciation Quickfinder Handbook is your trusted source for quick reference solutions to determine the right recovery period, compute the right amount of depreciation, decide whether expenses need to be capitalized, deal with the special rules for autos and other listed property, claim the Section 179 and bonus depreciation deductions, correct depreciation errors, work with like-kind exchanges and involuntary conversions, and simplify a host of other complex tax issues. It provides quick answers to all your business property questions in a concise, easy-to-use format.

The Individuals - Special Tax Situations Quickfinder Handbook will steer you through the maze of unique tax rules that apply to individuals due to their occupations, their investments, or because they are going through certain life events. This Handbook will save you time and money on those out of the ordinary tax situations you’ll encounter when preparing individual returns. It covers more than 30 types of unique taxpayers.

The tax rules for IRAs and retirement plans can be confusing, often differing from plan to plan with important amounts changing from year to year. The IRA and Retirement Plan Quickfinder Handbook provides quick answers to questions involving eligibility, making contributions, limits on contributions and elective deferrals, covering employees, how distributions are taxed and when they are required, penalties, and selecting beneficiaries, just to name a few.

With more than 500 pages, the Premium Quickfinder Handbook is your trusted source for quick reference to tax principles that apply when preparing individual, business and fiduciary income, estate and gift, tax-exempt organization, and payroll tax returns. It covers the essentials of preparing these tax filings, including detailed, real-life examples with filled-in forms and line-by-line explanations, and addresses tax law changes and IRS developments, all in a concise, easy-to-use format.

Quickfinder Tax Tables for Business Returns is a durable, laminated fold-out tool that provides the Quickfinder tables and charts you use most often, allowing you to quickly answer client questions without flipping through pages. Keep important tax facts and figures at your fingertips with the Quickfinder Tax Tables!

As the baby boomers move into their retirement years, tax and financial professionals are likely to encounter questions from the clients about Social Security and Medicare. The Social Security &amps; Medicare Quickfinder Handbook is an affordable, easy-to-use Handbook that provides the answers you need quickly.

Health Care Reform will have wide-ranging implications for individuals and employers. Employer mandates to provide insurance coverage, individual mandates to obtain coverage, credits and subsidies to help individuals purchase coverage, exchanges for acquiring coverage, new reporting requirements and taxes are a few of the many changes that will impact your clients. They are likely to have questions. We've got the answers. Our new Health Care Reform Quickfinder Handbook makes it easy for you to quickly locate answers and respond to the many questions your clients are asking.