Smelly Stinky Nefarious Tax Practice – New Home

Press Release (ePRNews.com) - Oakland, CA (USA) - May 22, 2018 - Smelly Stinky Nefarious Tax Practice – New Home is SmellyStinkyEA.com which is a website where we intend to highlight several situations where egregious examples of tax practice at its worst that we believe need to be eradicated. They include:

Abuses of the OVDP Program and advisors offering US tax advice without being part of the US  tax system.

Unprofessional, incompetent or outright fraudulent conduct in the commercial cannabis industry in California.

While the basics of regulation of US tax professionals with remain on this site, the bulk of future activity in this regard is moving to the Smelly Stinky EA site.

Just to restate some of the basic observations:

Validation of Circular 230 Tax Professional Credentials

Certified Public Accountants

CPA Verify

Regulation CPAs Accountants Tax Pros

The first step when you consider engaging a tax professional is verification of their credentials and review of professional disciplinary history. The tools available to perform that task include cpaverify.org is a CPA lookup tool populated by official state regulatory data sent from Boards of Accountancy to a central database. The website represents the first ever single-source national database of licensed ‘ and CPA firms. Determine a CPA or CPA firm’s credentials without having to search each of the 55 Boards of  Accountancy website individually. Regulation CPAs Accountants Tax Pros

Enrolled Agent Validation

IRS Enrolled Agent Validation

Regulation CPAs Accountants Tax Pros

The Internal Revenue Service provides a tool for the validation of Enrolled Agent credentials. Need to verify whether someone is an enrolled agent? You may email requests for enrolled agent status verification directly to epp@irs.gov. Please include the following information in your request:

First and Last Name

Complete Address (if available)

Enrolled Agent Number (if available)

Attorney License Look Up

Lawyer License Validation

Regulation CPAs Accountants Tax Pros

Lawyer Legion is our “go to” for attorney license lookups for all fifty states, legal associations, legal specialty credentials, and quick links for basic legal research.  When seeking detailed access to information about members of the California Bar, you can find that here.

Smelly Stinky EAs

Regulation of Tax Pros