While you were taking tax season head on and recovering from it, guess what happened? Over 500 court cases, 200 IRS IRB developments (including regs), 2,500 IRS rulings and other goodies came down. What did you miss? More than you might think. We've knocked it down for you. Give us four hours. We'll get you caught up.
This built-from-scratch course delivers up-to-the-day changes in federal tax law. The course, delivered at a brisk pace and with humor, is designed to meet the needs of the tax planner and return preparer by identifying and responsibly exploring recent important tax developments.
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Return preparers, tax planners and taxpayers desiring to keep up with late breaking tax developments
Topics Covered
- Major provisions of recently enacted (and newly effective) federal tax legislation
- Recent important court cases, regulations, rulings and related developments affecting individuals, C and S corporations, partnerships, businesses, estates/trusts and retirement plans
- And more
Learning Objectives
- Identify tax planning opportunities created and freed up by late breaking tax developments
- Identify major new tax developments on the horizon and how to respond
- Identify new IRS tactics against taxpayers
- Identify currently relevant risks and opportunities facing taxpayers and tax preparers
- Identify the tax provision that would be made permanent under the 2025 OBBB Act
- Identify the income level that qualifies a taxpayer for the 20% QBI deduction phaseout for married filing jointly in 2026
- Identify many new tax breaks introduced in the 2025 bill
Level
Update
Instructional Method
Group: Internet-based
NASBA Field of Study
Taxes (4 hours)
Program Prerequisites
Basic understanding of taxation.
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Bradley Burnett
Bradley Burnett, J.D., LL.M., is a practicing tax attorney, licensed in Colorado, with 38 years of tax practice experience. His practice emphasis is on tax planning and tax controversy resolution. Prior to establishing his own law firm in 1990, he practiced tax accounting with national and local CPA firms, worked as a trust officer for a Denver bank, and managed the tax department as partner in a medium-sized Denver law firm. After receiving his undergraduate degree in accounting and law degree (J.D.), he earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from the University of Denver School of Law Graduate Tax Program.
Mr. Burnett has delivered more than 3,400 presentations on U.S. tax law throughout all 50 states, Washington, D.C., the Bahamas, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Canada. He has authored texts of 45 CPE courses. Mr. Burnett served as adjunct professor at the University of Denver School of Law Graduate Tax Program, where he pioneered an employment tax course and taught IRS practice and procedure. He has appeared on television answering tax questions for call-in viewers of Denver NBC affiliate KUSA Channel 9. Brad received the Illinois Society of CPAs Instructor Excellence Award for teaching in Chicago and five times has been the top rated, most requested instructor for CPA Society annual tax conferences.