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The National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP), founded in 1979, is a nonprofit professional association dedicated to excellence in taxation. NATP was formed to serve professionals who work in all areas of tax practice. Members include individual practitioners, enrolled agents, accountants, CPAs, attorneys, and financial planners.

The Michigan Chapter, founded in 1989 extends these goals with a focus on issues specific to the practitioner operating in the State of Michigan.

Membership in the Michigan Chapter is automatically included in your National membership for members located in Michigan. Currently our chapter membership numbers over 800.

NEWS:
(for items previously listed here, see our "other news" page)

"Michigan is experiencing a delay in returning MeF acknowledgements for individual income tax returns. We will issue another communication when this issue is resolved. EMS (legacy) returns and acknowledgements are not experiencing any delays. We apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused you or your customers." (issued 02/02/2012)

Read the Filing Season Letter from IRS, with many helpful tips and links.

IRS has announced 2012 standard mileage rates
(see Notice 2012-1) as follows:
           Business Miles:     55.5¢ (no change from 2011)
           Medical/Moving:   23.0¢
           Charity                    14¢     (fixed by statute)
           depreciation portion of business mileage 23¢

IRS has announced that registrations for the RTRP competency exam will begin Monday 11/28.
Final Fee is $116. See Fact Sheet 2011-12

on 11/18/2011 the MI Supreme Court upheld important aspects of the new Michigan income tax laws.   One portion was overturned. Read the full decision here.

want a "gold card?" email the treasurer

The physical address for the Nov 11 Pure Michigan Tax Seminar has been corrected. The location has not changed.

Tax Professionals and IRS Successfully Working Together meeting October 20
@ Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi

"The Withholding Rate reduction scheduled to take place on October 1, 2011, was repealed by Public Act 38 of 2011. Therefore, the income tax rate will remain 4.35% through 2012 and Withholding Tables will remain unchanged. Withholding tables can be found online at www.michigan.gov/taxes."

IRS has published details and specifications regarding the competency examination for Registered Tax Return Preparers - very valuable information if you need to take the exam!
V iew it here

Online registration is now available for our "Pure Michigan Tax" Seminars (formerly named Piggyback) - new Gaylord session is offered this year. Massive MI law changes will be covered.

IRS has released the new Circular 230. It is effective 8/02/2011 and now covers virtually all who practice in the tax preparation community. View it here.

Michigan legislature has passed a major tax overhaul. Details here.

view recent MI Treasury announcements...