Bad news for filers seeking IRS guidance on filing Forms 1099 and 1042-S. On January 14, 2015 National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson announced the IRS will not be providing guidance on meeting information reporting filing, compliance, and due diligence requirements under the law.

Olson lays out the problems in her annual report to Congress. In particular she focuses on the drastic drop-off in IRS response time for organizations seeking assistance with tax law questions. To wit her report highlights how in 2004 the IRS answered 87% of calls from taxpayers such as Accounts Payable professionals, and did so in a timely fashion. But today she anticipates that during the upcoming filing season for TY2014 the IRS will NOT answer any tax-law questions except “basic” ones. In addition after the filing season, it will NOT answer any tax-law questions at all, and it has ELIMINATED tax prep assistance.

Luckily we can help. We put tax attorneys at your fingertips, standing ready to answer any of your Form 1099/1042-S and State Reporting related questions in two business days or less.

Here's how we will help you: As a subscriber to the TIR Answer Center you will have access to a unique, highly individualized service featuring veteran tax attorneys who provide organizations just like yours with convenient and affordable answers to the Form 1099 questions they have, and in two business days or less. No other service is currently available that employs actual on-call tax attorneys to accurately & timely answer your compliance questions!

What's more, you can ask as many questions as you want to, whenever you want. No more lost time hunting for the tax compliance answers you need - we provide the answers for you!

TIR Answer Center Subscription Benefits include access to: 

• Ask the Expert service where our tax attorneys will not only provide timely answers to your Form 1099 reporting questions but also refer you to applicable rules and regulations for further guidance. Click here for more about this service and our experts
• Tax FAQ Database. During countless seminars, webinars, conferences and other speaking engagements our experts have answered a tremendous range of Form 1099 related questions. Your subscription provides you with access to a library of hundreds of answers our tax attorney's have provided to the frequently asked questions that have so often stymied your peers in the information reporting world. Over 50 such questions and answers have been added to our database in the past month alone!
• Subscriber Discounted Webinars. Enjoy 25% discounts off our webinars, get guidance for attaining compliance with IRS and State Level Information Reporting laws and regulations, learn about recent changes in the law, and earn NASBA (National Association of State Boards of Accountancy) approved Continuining Professional Education Credits (CPE's) all at the same time!
• Subscriber Discounted Customized In-House Seminars. Our tax attorneys will come to you, delivering a uniquely customized experience that can be found nowhere else (price of seminar includes customized seminar support materials packaged into easy to use training and compliance guidance made to fit your organization's needs).
• “Information Reporter” e-zine. Each quarterly issue has a practical focus on topics of  immediate importance to you, written in commons sense, easy to understand language. Click here for a sample  - For instance, each year our fourth quarter issue provides subscribers with a full update of what's new from during the year in 1099 and 1042-S reporting. Furthermore, and even better, each January, in the first "Information Reporter" of the year and just in time for filing season, our subscribers GET FREE a copy of our updated State Filing Form and Threshold Chart (otherwise sold as part of our annual Filing and State Reporting Guide for $279) - with this year's version containing over 60 major changes in state level information reporting laws!
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In addition the TIR Answer Center's guidance will help you:

• By making your job easier - for instance when the new draft forms W-8BEN and W-8BEN-E were released this summer we broke down and analyzed each new form for our subscribers!
• Fileconfidently knowing you are abreast of changes in the law - there have been nearly 100 major changes in federal and state reporting & compliance laws in the past year and our subscribers are not only updated on all of them but have received the guidance they need to file accurately and efficiently with not only the IRS but also each state in the union.
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