The National Independent Tax Preparers Association seeks to support a newly proposed substitute bill in Alabama.  NITPA and it's industry leading executives from across the country worked hand in hand to understand each facet of the previously proposed "SB201 Tax Preparers Assistance Act".  What we began to see is that it wasn't actually doing anything to really regulate the industry and would have continued to allow unscrupulous preparers to prepare tax returns.  The only thing the was about to do, that any business owner or American citizen would clearly identify with,  is " it was going to eliminated the right of due process to the people in Alabama." 

If passed in it's original format it would have set a terrible unprecedented course of action for other industry's in the U.S. to shut down a business based on an alleged allegation, without ever having to prove the allegation actually even occurred.  It would have prevented those business owners from the right of appeal or the right of due process.  All people are granted through the "Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution" the right of due process. "The people of Alabama deserve their rights to be defended and all people in the U.S. should defend those rights as granted to us by the Constitution and the 14th Amendment.  This is what our country has fought to defend for over 200 years" - J.C. Snowden II, NITPA President. 

NITPA and it's growing base of Enrolled Agents, CPA's, Software Distributors and Independent Business owners have long been pushing for the IRS to help standardize the industry and enforce the current rules and regulations provided by the Ten different federal oversight committees.  NITPA and it's members are strongly for education and licensing in each and every state.  We feel there needs to be a standardized certified testing process and one that can be fairly implemented for all people and not just a select minority.