 Internal Revenue Service IRS Tax News 2022 IRS nationwide tax forum begins July 19th. There's a YouTube video link to it here, IR 2022-90 April 19th, 2022 Washington. The Internal Revenue Service today announced the 2022 IRS nationwide tax forum will be held virtually over five weeks starting July 19th with a series of live stream webinars every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Held each summer for more than 30 years, the IRS nationwide tax forum is the IRS marquee outreach event to the tax professional community. Even as some areas of the country are lifting limits on indoor gatherings, I hope so at this point. Some people are lifting the limits at this time on the indoor gatherings. The IRS will once again present the nationwide tax forum in a virtual format out of the abundance of caution. So they're still going to do it virtually. It wasn't virtual before this whole kind of thing started, but the IRS is I think their most influenced by the top-down regulatory stuff. So they're going to keep on going with the virtual stuff. So the virtual format allows experts from the IRS and its association partners to educate and update the tax professional community on the tax law, professional ethics, virtual currency, collection issues, and many other topics. Registering and attending these virtual seminars will allow many to fully satisfy their annual continuing education requirements. So if you got the education requirements, this may be a way to fulfill them. Tax professionals are encouraged to register now. There's a link to the register now thing. That's a call to action from the IRS doing a little marketing here. Register now to take advantage of this virtual program. Seminar dates and agenda of the 2022 IRS nationwide tax forum will begin on July 19th and continue through August 18th with live stream webinars broadcast on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Registration enables attendees to participate in all of the live webinars earning up to 28 continuing education credits. The IRS nationwide tax forum will feature a keynote address from Commissioner Charles P. Reddick, a plenary session with tax law and publications updates and multiple sessions on high interest topics. Presentations are made by both IRS experts and partner associations. This year for seminars, including planning plenary sessions and an ethics webinar, will be offered both in English and Spanish. Additional multilingual resources will be available for attendees in the virtual expo course details, including webinar titles, descriptions and schedule will be available soon 2022 registration and fees. So here's what you got to do to get registered. Calling that action. The IRS is tax professionals will register by 5 p.m. Eastern time ET. Not like the alien, but Eastern time on January 15th qualify for the an early bird rate of $240 $240 per person. The standard starting starting June 16th will be $289 so 240 for the early bird 289 for the late old bird with gray feathers. Discounts for international association members. Members of the IRS national partner associations listed below qualify for a discount of $10 of the early bird rate, but only if they register by June 15th. Participating association members should contact their association directory for more information. So you might want to go to your related association to see if you can get a discount here and get a further discount even lower than the early bird that waked up early and ate that because there's more worms out early. So we got the American Bar Association, the ABA, so you might want to talk to them. So if you get that $10 discount, I think it was a $10 discount. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, if you're a member there, National Association of Enrolled Agents, the NAEA, National Association of Tax Professionals, the NATP, National Association of Accountants, the NSA, National Society of Tax Professionals, the NSTP, low income taxpayer clinics, the LITC, and the Volunteer Income Tax Association program, the VITA, Virtual Expo and Focus Groups Registration at the 2022 IRS nationwide tax forum includes access to the Virtual Expo. That's what you want. You've got to have that. Virtual Expo provides a great opportunity to visit with exhibitors representing dozens of commercial leaders in tax software and financial services. So you can kind of hobnob with these outstanding titans in their field of taxation and tax software, as well as leading nationwide associations in several key IRS offices. Highlights of the Virtual Expo include, so these are the highlights, the latest tax products and software representatives from IRS program offices in the IRS zone, including expanded resources for multilingual engagement, bonus Q&A, that's down for question and answer, sessions in the speaker's corner after each live session, live webinars from many of our sponsors. In addition, attendees are invited to share their experiences and discuss innovative ideas directly with the IRS in numerous small virtual focus groups. Please check 2022 IRS nationwide tax forum. There's a link to that here registration page for the list of topics and qualifying criteria. And they should have a call to action at the bottom. You would think here saying register now, but they don't. You got to scroll back up to get to like the register button to get there. They got to work on their marketing team. But in any case, there's a link to this stuff here, and there'll be a link to this in the description.