It's tax season! (and the best time to steal your competitors' clients)

Sponsors QuickFee: https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/quickfee AccountingSuite: https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/asuite OnPay: http://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/onpay Show Notes 05:31 – Fresh back from the Sage Accountants Advisory Council, in Dallas, Blake is basking in brisket afterglow and ready to talk cloud accounting! 06:21 – David takes a field trip to a real accounting firm! 07:53 – It’s tax season ! Yay … | Accounting Today 08:41 – Are IRS audits becoming an endangered activity? | CNBC 11:51 – When the IRS fails to collect from cheaters, it costs everyone else up to $3K | Accounting Today 15:25 – Wanna get new biz for your firm? Start during tax season! | CPA Trendlines 17:08 – IRS calls open season on tax-prep competition , and gives the Free File program a makeover | ProPublica 19:43 – Straight from the source - Free File : File Your Taxes Online for Free | IRS 23:16 – According to a recent survey, accountants are upping their tech game and their advising skills! | AccountingWEB 29:56 – Hello Pot, this is Kettle – Is Amazon feeling too much heat from Honey ? | PYMNTS 31:28 – California – Land of Confusion – When it comes to the new privacy law | Fox and Hounds Daily 35:42 – Way to keep that private info safe, Facebook ! | Bloomberg 37:35 – No time like the present – the California Board of Accountancy switches to email distribution of its newsletter, just in time to let everyone know they raised their fees | CBA 39:30 – New Year's Bug Takes NYC Parking Meters Offline | PYMNTS 41:53 – Virtually screwed – Thomson Reuters’ Virtual Office goes down for the count … But at least they’re providing status updates! | Thomson Reuters 47:49 – What’s your favorite way of dealing with client 1099s ? | CPA Trendlines 49:51 – “Hey, you! Get off of my screen!” Chase just says no to screen-scrapers | Bank Innovation 51:51 – Do banking consumers really want to know who owns their bank data ? | CNBC 54:43 – What is open banking , anyway? | American Banker Get in Touch Thanks for listening and for the great reviews! We appreciate you! Follow and tweet @BlakeTOliver and @DavidLeary . Find us on Facebook and, if you like what you hear, please do us a favor and write a review on iTunes , or Podchaser . Interested in sponsoring the Cloud Accounting Podcast? For details, read the prospectus , and NOW, you can see our smiling faces on Instagram ! Limited edition shirts, stickers, and other necessities. TeePublic Store: http://cloudacctpod.link/merch Subscribe Apple Podcasts: http://cloudacctpod.link/ApplePodcasts Spotify: http://cloudacctpod.link/Spotify Google Play: http://cloudacctpod.link/GooglePlay Stitcher: http://cloudacctpod.link/Stitcher Overcast: http://cloudacctpod.link/Overcast Classifieds FutureFirm.co: https://futurefirm.co/cloudaccounting/ Go here to create your classified ad: https://cloudacctpod.link/RunClassifiedAd