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Forbes: As IRS Tax Filing Season Begins, There’s Bad News For Honest Taxpayers

Paul Caron
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1040Forbes:  As IRS Tax Filing Season Begins, There's Bad News For Honest Taxpayers, by Janet Novack:

With this year’s tax filing season set to begin in a week, there are ominous signs for honest folks who want to complete their 1040s and pay what they owe (not more or less) with a minimum of hassle.

Customer service at the IRS is dismal and deteriorating. … The epidemic of identity theft refund fraud hasn’t yet been contained. Hope for a major reform that might simplify the tax code is waning. And last Friday a federal judge issued a permanent injunction blocking an IRS plan to regulate and enforce some minimum competency and continuing education requirements on hundreds of thousands of currently unregulated paid tax preparers. 

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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