{"id":321,"date":"2018-11-07T17:20:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayoub-associates.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2018-11-07T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:20:55","slug":"irs-issues-final-regulations-expanding-paid-preparer-due-diligence-requirement-head-household-filers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayoub-associates.com\/blog\/irs-issues-final-regulations-expanding-paid-preparer-due-diligence-requirement-head-household-filers\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS issues final regulations, expanding paid preparer due diligence requirement to head of household filers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">IR-2018-216, November 7, 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today issued final regulations expanding the long-standing paid preparer due diligence requirement to include individual income tax returns claiming the head of household filing status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The final regulations, available in the\u00a0<a title=\"Federal Register\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2018\/11\/07\/2018-24411\/tax-return-preparer-due-diligence-penalty-under-section-6695g\">Federal Register<\/a>, implement a provision included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the tax reform legislation enacted in December 2017. The additional requirement will apply starting with 2018 returns, prepared on or after November 7, 2018.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">The due diligence requirement was originally designed to reduce errors on returns claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit. Legislation in 2015 expanded the due diligence requirements to include the Child Tax Credit, Additional Child Tax Credit, and American Opportunity Tax Credit. Under the TCJA, the due diligence requirement now also applies to individual income tax returns claiming the head of household filing status. Temporary and proposed regulations were issued in December 2016 to implement the 2015 changes, which today\u2019s regulations also finalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Paid preparers must submit\u00a0<a title=\"Form 8867\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/forms-pubs\/form-8867-paid-preparers-due-diligence-checklist\" data-entity-uuid=\"925e6c7a-3f48-4b6b-b055-c6d6d1e66a9b\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\">Form 8867<\/a>, Paid Preparer\u2019s Earned Income Credit Checklist, with every tax return claiming any of the covered tax benefits. The form is designed as a checklist to help paid preparers meet the requirement by obtaining eligibility information from their clients. The form will be revised later this year to reflect the addition of the head of household filing status. Paid preparers are required to keep copies of the form or comparable documentation for their records, which is also subject to review by the IRS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Paid preparers are subject to a penalty, indexed to inflation, for each failure to comply with the requirement. For tax year 2018, the penalty will be $520.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; box-sizing: border-box; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">For updates on this and other TCJA provisions, visit\u00a0<a title=\"Tax Reform\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/tax-reform\" data-entity-uuid=\"e8471673-3c14-4749-a65f-96bb3ea9e361\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\">IRS.gov\/taxreform<\/a>. https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs-issues-final-regulations-expanding-paid-preparer-due-diligence-requirement-to-head-of-household-filers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IR-2018-216, November 7, 2018 WASHINGTON \u2014 The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today issued final regulations expanding the long-standing paid preparer due diligence requirement to include individual income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-general","category-tax-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>IRS issues final regulations, expanding paid preparer due diligence requirement to head of household filers - Ayoub Sidhum &amp; Co.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ayoub and Associates CPA Firm is a full service Corona CPA firm that provides services in accounting, tax preparation and planning, IRS audit, and sales tax. 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