If there is not enough interest, it will be dropped. Jim Buettner, guest, thought a person practicing outside his scope of expertise would be liable. Tony Bardi, guest, asked what precipitated the Task Force into being. Funkhouser said the Board receives complaints from the public about returns that neither the Tax Board nor the Board of Accountancy has jurisdiction over. Linda Thomas said the law states that the Board is here to license individual income tax preparation.
Businesses have a choice of who to use to prepare their returns.
If they don't get good service from a practitioner, they can go to someone else. Winters said she doesn't want to sound like she has made up her mind, because she hasn't yet, but she noted those comments could apply to individual tax returns, as well. She doesn't agree that it's a business problem and not a consumer problem. The Board is seeing the consumer who contacts the office when he has a complaint. Return of records is a big problem.