e-News for Tax Professionals 2025-22

The IRS has announced the seminar curriculum for the 2025 Nationwide Tax Forum, which includes 37 continuing education seminars or workshops, is now available. Attendees can earn up to 18 continuing professional education credits by attending the 3-day forum. The agenda includes seminars presented by subject matter experts from the IRS and its association partners. The Forum is the Agency’s largest annual outreach event designed and produced for the tax professional community.

Special events, including sessions on practice management and avoiding scams and schemes targeting tax pros or their clients.
Digital Accounts Services Room, where tax pros can get help creating an IRS Online Account, resolving issues with their preparer tax identification number (PTIN) or Centralized Authorization File (CAF) and more.
The Expo Hall, where tax pros have opportunities to engage with industry experts, IRS representatives and exhibitors displaying a wide selection of products and services that may help enhance their business operations.

The IRS Nationwide Tax Forum kicks off in less than five weeks. Register today to save $54 off the standard rate; reserve your spot in Chicago, July 1-3; New Orleans, Aug. 5-7; Orlando, Aug. 26-28; Baltimore, Sept. 9-11; or San Diego, Sept. 16-18.

2. IRS releases fiscal year 2024 Data Book describing agency’s activities

The IRS issued its annual Data Book detailing the agency's activities during fiscal year 2024 (Oct. 1, 2023 – Sept. 30, 2024). This year’s edition marks the publication’s 30-year anniversary. The Data Book provides a fiscal year statistical overview of the agency’s operations including returns received, revenue collected, taxpayer services provided, tax returns examined (audits), efforts to collect unpaid taxes and other details about the work of the IRS.

To learn more, view the complete 2024 Data Book online.

3. 2025 SOI Bulletin, Spring Issue

The 2025 SOI Bulletin, Spring Issue (Publication 1136) is available on SOI's Tax Stats webpage. The articles included in this publication provide data available from various tax and information returns U.S. taxpayers have filed. This issue of the SOI Bulletin includes articles on the following topics: Sole Proprietorship Returns, Tax Year 2022 and High-Income Tax Returns, Tax Year 2021. SOI publishes the Statistics of Income Bulletin quarterly: winter, spring, summer, and fall.

4. News from the Justice Department’s Tax Division

A Washington, D.C., CPA was sentenced to 20 months in prison for making a false statement on a mortgage loan application and not filing an income tax return. According to court documents and statements made in court, Timothy Trifilo worked in tax compliance for several large accounting and finance firms. For a decade, Trifilo did not file federal income tax returns or pay all the taxes that he owed despite earning more than $7.7 million during that time. He caused a tax loss to the IRS of more than $2 million. In addition to his prison sentence, the U.S. District Court Judge ordered Trifilo to serve two years of supervised release and pay $2,057,256.40 in restitution to the IRS.

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