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Utilizing the Taxpayer Advocate Service

The Taxpayer Advocate Service is an independent unit within the IRS that is charged with the mission to “strive that every taxpayer is treated fairly and knows and understands their rights.” Most taxpayers and many preparers aren’t even aware that the...

Preventing Tax ID Theft

Up until 2015, people who wanted to file taxes electronically could do it very easily and the IRS had little power to verify that the return was legitimate. This led to enormous abuses a decade ago and millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds being...

Optimize Your Work Opportunity Tax Credit

Rick Pinkerman, founder and CEO of NOTICENINJA, was joined by Brian Kelly and Patrick Morrissey of Cost Management Services to discuss Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and how to standardize your notice compliance system.

The Great IRS Backlog

Entering tax season 2022, the Internal Revenue Service still had a significant backlog of unprocessed tax returns and amended returns from previous years.In some cases, computer generated notices related to these unprocessed returns have been going out,...

Why has form 1099-G disappeared?

There is a disappearing notice that used to be essential for most tax returns. It’s the form 1099-G from state governments that tells taxpayers if they had a state income tax refund in the prior tax year. This form still gets reported to the IRS, but few...

Best Practices for Filing Amended Returns

Join our CEO Rick Pinkerman with VP and Payroll Lead Rebecca Harshberger from Entertainment Partners as they discuss the Best Practices for Filing Amended Returns. Use this link to view our Mini-Webinar on YouTube, previously recorded: ...

The IRS is broken, now what?

Let’s face it- the IRS is broken.Decades of budget cuts and over a year of pandemic confusion have made dealing with the Internal Revenue Service harder than ever.Consider:

The ABC’s of ERC Mini Webinar Series

Join NoticeNinja CEO Rick Pinkerman in collaboration with Maggie Crowley and Karl Sussan of Leyton for a Mini-Webinar on the ABC’s of ERC. Save up to $33K per employee.

Is it Real or is it a Scam?

Is it real or is it a scam?That’s the one question many tax professionals need to answer as their clients bring notices in the mail or relay phone calls or emails that they received claiming a problem with their tax accounts.Here are the three biggest...