Alabama Tax Office Owners & Managers are holding a special Alabama Awareness Meeting on June 25^th, 2009 in Birmingham, Alabama.  The Alabama Tax Preparers Awareness Meeting is being held to discuss current and previously proposed state and national legislative interest to regulate and license the Tax Preparers.  Due to major enhancements in the 2010 VITA Grant Program there is more outside special interest now attempting to control and gain exclusive access to the Tax Refund and E-File Industry than any time in the industries history.  While the VITA enhancements were introduce to allow VITA Site operators an opportunity to enhance their own poor accuracy rates, which prior to 2007 were as low as 36%, the vast majority of them have opted to use these proceeds in concert with their attempt to enforce new legislative initiatives on the entire industry. 

The special interest groups are consistently leading negative propaganda campaigns in an effort to damage the image and business of area Tax Office Owners across the country.  In Alabama a Special Interest Group led an all out misleading media attack on the Paid Professional Authorized E-File Operators in the State in an effort to help them pass their own hand written agenda which would have given them an unprecedented amount of board exempt controls over the entire industry.  NITPA and its growing base of tax office owners and software distributors were the only organization in Alabama leading lobbying efforts to defend the industry.   Sighting that all board members should have to follow the same rules and pay the same fees they would be writing and imposing on the area tax office owners NITPA was able to successfully defend the industry and halt the "Alabama Taxpayer Protection and Assistance Act" from passing on the final day of the 2009 Legislative Session. 

The National Independent Tax Preparers Association is holding its first industry Tax Preparer Awareness Meeting to discuss industry legislative initiatives currently being proposed on a local and national level.  Tax Office owners and managers who'd like to share their insights should register online at NITPA.com to reserve their seat for the June 25^th, 2009 Birmingham, Alabama meeting.  Registration online is free, seating is limited please reserve your seating request by the 23^rd.  For additional information please visit www.nitpa.com or call 866-910-5899