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Best self study tax course?

I am a CPA who has mainly audit experience. I've also been out of the profession for several years, doing other things. My tax experience has been very limited (mainly doing corporate tax provisions for audit purposes). Individual tax experience is limited to doing my own returns and I have no experience with partnership returns. I'd like to thoroughly update my tax knowledge, with the view to becoming a tax advisor/preparer as a part-time/semiretirement job in the future. Would H&R Block be a good course to take in my situation, or would it be too basic? Are there any good online, self study courses that would make sense? I'll probably be using Lacerte to prepare taxes - are there any courses that are geared towards Lacerte users? The reason I'm considering Block is the practical knowledge, but it's quite a time commitment and would be hard to make all of the classes due to my busy work schedule. Thanks for any suggestions.

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plin321
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CCH has a book called Tax Course (a new one comes out every year), which I think is one of the best if you don't mind self study. It's not inexpensive, but it's very good. CCH also has many other tax publications that can be of use in showing you how to prepare returns. Prentiss Hall has similar publications, which are probably as good. Which you like better is up to your personal taste. Stu

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Stuart Bronstein
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I have taken the Block basic tax course in the past, I found the printed materials excellent and very thorough. In California and Oregon, paid preparers must be licensed (or registered, whatever) by the state so the course also meets the requirements in those states (CPA's and EA's meet the requirements by default, at least in California.) If you read the fine print on this years course brochures from Block, it looks like, for the first time, the course is not open to all. It says "This course is not intended for, nor open to any persons who are either currently employed by or seeking employment with any professional tax preparation company or organization other than H&R Block." They want you to come work for them, apparently.

-Mark Bole

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Mark Bole

I spend most of my public practice time doing partnerships, sub-s, and 1040's. I took the H&R course several years ago for cpe and found it to be quite good, but time consuming, and only focused on 1040 returns. I would recommend using Micro Mash cpe courses for partnership returns. Mike

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Mike

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