Income statement wrong: sanctions accountants

It 'a landmark ruling that issued a few days ago by the Supreme Court, which ruled that in the case of a tax return filed incorrectly, in particular with missing documents, any penalty imposed by the IRS to be paid jointly and severally by the taxpayer and his accountant. Everything stems from the appeal presented some time ago by an accountant in fact, he wanted to challenge the judgment, upheld in the appeal, which condemned him to pay an administrative penalty in conjunction with a taxpayer for a declaration that lacked some receipted expenses incurred. Well, the motivations, the judges said that is "... precise duty of care does not lie in wait for the professional costs non-documented or not related to the year of statement without having ...

reported the presence of the relevant documentation. " The ruling also states that, at the end of the fiscal responsibility of the professional, has no bearing on the fact that the customer keep their accounts in an orderly or disorderly. In short, regardless of who he is and how he functions the taxpayer, the accountant must always act in harmony with the tax laws and in compliance with the code of ethics, otherwise incurs the sanction of the Treasury, as well as his client.

 

12/05/2010

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