Federal Tax Law

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This on-demand webinar is designed for tax professionals seeking the essential knowledge and skills necessary to identify and mitigate common cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities within their organizations. Presented by Hayley Bales, EA, from Protection Plus, this webinar provides a comprehensive guide to the current cybersecurity landscape along with valuable insights into projected future trends.

Last Revision: May 2025

Description: BUNDLED COURSES! You probably have clients who are ready to retire or are planning for it someday. These courses will prepare you to help your clients understand the issues around Social Security, retirement plans, and recording their retirement income.

Buying these three courses as a package will also save you money! Buy all three together and save $16 off the regular price!

Total of 8 CPE credits.

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Tax preparers face many challenges today, In this on-demand webinar, we will explore many of the complexities involved with various retirement plans, including increasing use of codes, inconsistency of prepared forms, and other complications due to changes in law. In short, no one size fits all. However, all the complexity allows us to prove to our clients why they need our services--now more than ever.

Description: As a knowledgeable tax preparer, you can be an especially valuable resource for non-US citizens, since they are individuals who often have had less experience with the US tax system compared to US citizens. This contains content for both resident and nonresident aliens. However, since resident aliens are generally subject to the same tax filing rules as US citizens, we’ll look at more comprehensive content on nonresident alien filers.

Description: Many of your clients will have supplemental income from sources like rental real estate, partnerships, trusts, estates, and royalties. How do you report that income? This course will give you a better understanding of Schedule E, as well as rental and other income sources, which income must be reported, and which losses and deductions are allowed.

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The SECURE Act 2.0 contains a wide range of provisions that become effective over several years designed to encourage retirement savings, help ensure the sufficiency of retirement funds, bring additional clarity and transparency to retirement plan rules, and increase federal revenue. This course will discuss the various provisions of the Act, beginning with those provisions that are immediately effective and followed by those that become effective in subsequent years. Appropriate context is added to facilitate understanding of the pre-enactment environment and the impact of the legislative changes. Revision Date: April 2024

Description: How did Social Security become the program that exists today? Which benefits are offered by the program? What are the implications when preparing tax returns? What are some common related financial planning considerations? This course helps tax professionals better understand the scope of the Social Security program, as well as how it affects their clients.

Revision Date: April 2024

Description: Gain an overview of standard and itemized deductions, including new rules applying to the TCJA and the CARES Act. As the standard deduction is a basic deduction, most of the information in this course is centered around the different itemized deductions. Last Revision: March 2024

Description: Why does basis matter for a shareholder in an S Corporation? The ability of the shareholder to calculate deductions involving the corporation on a personal tax return is limited by the taxpayer’s basis in the corporation. This webinar discusses how to properly document S corporation basis in order to support losses and deductions claimed on shareholder’s individual returns.

Last Revision: July 2024