NvSEA Tax Seminars

This might be the most important class you can take this year,

hosted by Nevada Society of Enrolled Agents, Southern Chapter!

NvSEA is presenting a 7-hour CE event that is open to all tax professionals, whether you are an EA, CPA, or AFSP.

This most popular event has been a mainstay for NvSEA for the past 25 years. Returning again this year are Cathy Clow and Bert Hartmann whose insightful classes never cease to amaze students, We will focus on the new tax forms for 2018 tax season!

Remember, tax updates in January are always better because they’ve got all the last minute stuff. We will be ready with whatever Congress throws our way.

Snacks will be provided during the day and a buffet lunch.

Date: January 16th, 2019

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club, 5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas 89113

Entrance to the East gate is on Tropicana on the south side of the street between Rainbow Blvd and Buffalo.

Hotline: 702-594-0927 to reserve your seat, or call Shirley @ 702-437-1500.

Cost: $100 for NAEA members; $125 for everyone else.

Everyone is welcome to our meeting with Jennifer Brown, EA
7 IRS-approved CE credits.

Our speaker will be Jennifer Brown, EA. She is an Adjunct Professor at Weber State University where she teaches tax preparers how to become EAs. Not only has she taught at the National Tax Practice Institute, but she also teaches for NAEA state chapters.

She is well known for her insights and her personality on stage which will keep you captivated while she helps you understand complicated tax laws.

Her topics:

Businesses from Basic to Basis (3 CE hours)

In this class we will cover the basics of businesses from income and credits to the new tax laws. We will also go in-depth on basis (inside and outside).

Serving those Who Serve Us (2 CE hours)

Understanding the unique tax situation of our Military members, how the TCJA will affect them and current issues with military income and taxes.

The Growing Gig Economy (2 CE hours)

As our clients start to earn more and more money through side hustles it is important that we stay up to date on brand new market trends. We will look at Air BnB, Crypto currencies, Uber/Lyft/Waze drivers, and many other developing businesses. Learn more to understand these businesses and best help our clients.

Date: September 19th, 2018

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club, 5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas 89113

Entrance to the East gate is on Tropicana on the south side of the street between Rainbow Blvd and Buffalo.

Hotline: 702-594-0927 to reserve your seat, or call Shirley @ 702-437-1500.

Cost: $75 for NAEA members; $125 for everyone else.

Everyone is welcome to our annual

“Pencil to the Form” with Bert Hartmann & Cathy Clow tax seminar!

3 hours of Federal Tax Update & 4 hours Federal Tax IRS-approved CE credits.

Remember, tax updates in January are always better because they’ve got all the last minute stuff. We will be ready with whatever Congress throws our way.

Catch up to date on:

· Tax Reform
· Identity Theft and Office Security
· Marijuana Industry
· Disaster Tax Relief
· Expensing Real Estate Improvements
· 2017 New Legislation and Forms Update…
· E-Services Online Tools for Practitioners
· National Research Program Audits
· Rulings and Cases

 

Date: January 10th, 2018

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club

5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas 89113

Entrance to the East gate is on Tropicana on the south side of the street between Rainbow Blvd and Buffalo.

Hotline: 702-594-0927 to reserve your seat, or call Shirley @ 702-437-1500.

Cost: $75 for NAEA members; $125 for everyone else.

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Everyone is welcome to our meeting with local IRS Group Managers!
6 IRS-approved CE credits.

 

November 15th, come join the Nevada Society of Enrolled Agents for 6 IRS-approved CE credits. We always serve great snacks and lunch! You do not need to be an EA to attend. Everyone is welcome!

Our most popular event will feature 6 hours of CE credit on federal tax law and will be taught by IRS managers on these topics:

  • Collections, liens, and levies – Learn about discharge, subordination, nonattachment, withdrawal, and requesting payoffs. – Mark Carrel, Revenue Officer, Collection.
  • Form 8300 and Money Laundering – Chris Footit, IRS Sr. Stakeholder Liaison
  • Payment Options, e-Services new secure access, and using IRS.gov – Chris Footit, IRS Sr. Stakeholder Liaison.
  • Identity Theft, victim assistance, and tax scams – John Kirk, Special Agent for TIGTA.
  • Tip Reporting for restaurants, clubs, banquet halls, pubs, and bars with more than 10 employees. Learn how, when, and where to file Form 8027, Employer’s Annual Information Return of Tip Income and Allocated Tips. – Tammy Wise, IRS Sr. Program Analyst.
  • The ways and means of Collection Appeals and Collection Due Process – Mike Freitag, IRS Group Manager, Collection Appeals.
  • New Nevada Law AB324 Preparer Registration New in Nevada – Join us for a discussion about the new preparer registration now required by the recently passed AB324 that could cost tax preparers from $500 to $1,500 annually depending on your credit history.

 

Date: November 15th, 2017

Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club

5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas 89113

Entrance to the East gate is on Tropicana on the south side of the street between Rainbow Blvd and Buffalo.

Hotline: 702-594-0927 to reserve your seat.

Cost: $50 for NAEA members; $75 for everyone else.

 

 

 

Everyone is welcome to learn from popular national instructor David Mellem, EA!
7 IRS-approved CE credits.

September 20th, join your fellow Enrolled Agents and their guests at this interactive workshop. We will discuss following topics:

– Understanding Elections
– Beauty & Barber Shops from an Examiner’s Point of View
– Entity Comparison
– Mid-Year Tax Updates


Beauty/Barbers – This program focuses on the beauty and barbershop profession. It looks at the employee v independent contractor issue, chair rental, and other deductions specific to this industry. The material will use the IRS MSSP as a backdrop for the discussion.

Entity Comparison – Is it better to be a corporation or a partnership? Is it better to be a C or an S? This program discusses many business issues and the differing tax consequences among the various business entities. These include items such as contributions to the entity, liquidation of the entity, sales of property, and treatment of fringe benefits.

Elections – This seminar covers a brief overview of the particular election and the procedures to make and/or revoke the election. This topic includes many elections many taxpayers may not think about as well as elections we know are elections, such as: Accrual method of reporting interest from US Savings Bonds, Mark-to-market election for traders, Section 179, Bonus depreciation, Out of installment reporting, Out of treating interest when secured by personal residence (allowing tracing), Treating trust or estate distributions in first 65 days as if they took place in the prior year, and Repair regulation elections.

Midseason Tax Update – This program contains federal tax law changes; new regulations and other IRS releases such as Notices, Announcements, Revenue Rulings, and Revenue Rulings; and recent court cases from US Tax Court and other Courts dealing with tax matters.” Many of the cases used will be ones that provoke discussion.

Instructor Bio
David Mellem, EA – he has been in practice for 39 years. Often quoted in NATP and NAEA Journals, David has been a guest panelist on the highly regarded TaxTalkToday show. He is a member of NATP, NAEA, and Fellow of NTPI. He has served as a past editor of the EA Journal for NAEA, and has served on the Education Committee for the NAEA Education Foundation. He offers tax research and consulting services for Federal tax matters and will ghost write full or partial tax returns whenever fellow tax pros get stumped.

 

Date: September 20th, 2017
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club
5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas 89113
Entrance to the East gate is on Tropicana on the south side of the street between Rainbow Blvd and Buffalo.

Hotline: 702-594-0927 to reserve your seat.
Cost: $50 for NAEA members; $75 for everyone else.

Everyone is welcome to learn from popular national instructor Kevin Huston, EA, USTCP!
7 IRS-approved CE credits.

July 19th, join your fellow Enrolled Agents and their guests at this interactive workshop. We will discuss following topics:

– Mastering Tax Research Skills
– Understanding Form 4797
– 7216 Use, Disclosure & Conflicts of Interest (Ethics)Mastering Tax Research SkillsTraining preparers on the hierarchy of standards for tax positions. Overview of tax authorities; i.e. IRC, Treasury Interpretations, Court Decisions and Judicial Interpretations, International Agreements, Private Letter Rulings, Non-Authoritative resources, paid research resources, and free resources.Understanding Form 4797

Covering all 4 parts of the 4797 including business use assets; depreciable and amortizable property; oil, gas, geothermal and mineral property; Section 126 property; Capital assets not reported on Schedule D, 1244 property; IRC Section 197 intangible assets; IRC Section 1221 assets held either as personal use property or for investment purposes; IRC Section 1231 business assets held over one year including 5-year look back; Section 1245 business use property; Section 1245 gain to extent of depreciation taken; IRC Section 1250 long-term depreciable real property that is not 1245 property; 179 recapture, 280F recapture; and non-capital business assets other than inventory.7216 Use, Disclosure & Conflicts of Interest (Ethics)Concepts taught will include proper disclosure, permissible disclosures programming, maintenance, and repair of software and equipment used to prepare returns, filing FAFSA financial aid forms, determining which clients are “centers of influence,” mandatory formatting and language, sample disclosures, Circular 230 conflicting interests defined, and a whole host of common Conflict of Interest Scenarios encountered by preparers.

Instructor Bio

Kevin C. Huston, EA, USTCP is the president of Blue Ridge Tax Advisors Inc., in Asheville, North Carolina. He received his B.S. degree in Business Management from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, and his M.B.A. in International Business from Georgia State University in Atlanta. Kevin has earned the Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Certified Life Underwriter (CLU) designations from The American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He is a Fellow of the National Tax Practice Institute of the National Association of Enrolled Agents. Kevin has been a nationally known tax instructor for 20 years, and has authored several tax and financial articles for professional journals.

In 2012, Kevin passed the United States Tax Court admissions exam for non-attorneys. In the history of the United States, there have been only about 350 people who have passed this rigorous exam. Kevin is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court.

Date: July 19th, 2017
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club
5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas 89113
Entrance to the East gate is on Tropicana on the south side of the street between Rainbow Blvd and Buffalo.

Hotline: 702-594-0927 to reserve your seat.
Cost: $50 for NAEA members; $75 for everyone else.

 

Everyone is welcome to learn from popular national instructor Melinda Garvin, EA!
7 IRS-approved CE credits.

May 17th, join your fellow Enrolled Agents and their guests at this interactive workshop. We will discuss following topics:

·         1099 – The Tattletale
·         Affordable Care Act
·         All or Nothing – Strict Substantiation Rules
·         Passive Losses

Instructor Bio

Since 2007, Melinda has been an instructor for National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP). Melinda has been a presenter at the IRS Nationwide Tax Forums, and has taught in many states across the country.  In 2012, to encourage tax professionals in office ‘best practices’, she authored the manual “Audit Proof the Tax Office” and has recently published a second manual called “Best Practices for the Tax Office”. Melinda has a strong aspiration to support the tax professional’s many sides of interactions with clients and IRS through education.

 

Melinda is funny, charming, engaging, and insightfully entertaining.

Date: May, 17th, 2017
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club
5050 Spanish Trail Lane, Las Vegas 89113
Entrance to the East gate is on Tropicana on the south side of the street between Rainbow Blvd and Buffalo.

Hotline: 702-594-0927 to reserve your seat
Cost: $50 for NAEA members; $75 for everyone else

Date: January 15, 2020
The third Wednesday in January!

Time: 9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Location: Spanish Trails Country Club
5050 Spanish Trail Lane, LV 89113
East Gate between Buffalo and Rainbow

Hotline: 702-594-0927 (recording) or 702-437-1500 (direct) or email
ShirleyCallahanEA@yahoo.com

The Nevada Society is presenting a 7-hour CE event that is open to all tax professionals, whether you are an EA, CPA, or AFSP. Snacks will be provided during the day and a buffet lunch.

This most popular event has been a mainstay for NVSEA for the past 25 years. Returning again this year are Cathy Clow and Bert Hartmann whose insightful classes never cease to amaze students.

The fee is $100 for NAEA members, and $125 for non-members. Newly minted EAs pay only $100. Pay cash or check at the door. Please bring exact change.

Focus on the new tax forms for the 2019 tax season!
Keep it simple,
Keep it fresh!
Learn it … just before tax season!
8 hours IRS approved CE

Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2020 in Las Vegas

Time: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Location: Mesquite Club
702 E St. Louis
Las Vegas, NV 89104

$190 Early Bird Discount before January 1st
Use Promo Code 10CREDIT

Text doubles as Handy Desk Reference & Toolbox
Arranged in order just like a tax return
2019 changes clearly marked to avoid errors

Read all about it … What you need to know about 2019!

  • Complete coverage of IRS & CA forms
  • New forms with real-life examples to show you how to complete them
  • Line-by-line calculations on new forms & worksheets
  • CA’s NEW partial conformity – Which provisions did they conform to and when
  • CA adjustments calculated and illustrated on Form 540 Sch CA
  • CA’s NEW health insurance individual mandate
  • Latest news about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – And what your software is getting wrong!
  • NEW 199A forms (IRS didn’t like the 2018 worksheets
  • QBI review, handy quick look-up list of specified service businesses
  • Rentals – Do they qualify for 199A deduction, how passive losses impact QBI, how to tax self-rentals to specified service businesses, and more…
  • NOLs – New usage rules, and simplified way to calculate carryover amount
  • State tax refunds – Why most are NOT taxable!
  • Home mortgage interest – Some interesting questions that have arisen
  • Office in home – IRS crazy computations when interest and taxes are over limits
  • Depreciation, Opportunity Funds, aggregation, cars and more…
  • Case studies – Client documents to completed tax return
  • Court cases, revenue rulings, and more…
  • Dynamex – Who will have to become an employee in 2020; which professions are exempt; client letter explaining the new rules!
  • Worksheets, flowcharts, and checklists to help you keep it all straight
  • Free FAST FACTS reference card
  • And much, much more …
  • Information you can use in the REAL WORLD!

Click here to reserve your seat BEFORE WE SELL OUT!
DO NOT DELAY
We can only seat 100 people! Make sure you’re included!

Northern Nevada will host this same update class
with Lisa Ihm on Monday, January 6th, 2020
in Reno, Nevada
Please Call Leon Dowty, EA at (775) 323-2228 for information and look at the Northern Events Tab.