points by ThunderSizzle 1 day ago | 0 comments
It seems disingenuous by our government. Create a tax strategy that is so complicated, people feel like they have to hire professionals. However, if the professionals err, it's the citizenry that pays the penalty.
Seems like simplify or just erradicting the tax code would be more just at this point.
[–] inemesitaffia 1 day ago
I believe it's a global thing.
In some jurisdictions, it may help with criminal but not civil liability.
Normally it doesn’t get to that point though. CPAs do not want to be known as the person that misfiled taxes and got a court to rule them negligent. They carry insurance for errors so mostly just end up queitly making it right when there is an error.