Tax professionals weigh in on 2021 tax season deadline NATP survey finds July 15, 2020, filing extension was helpful for tax pros and their clients
BriefingWire.com, 2/01/2021 - APPLETON, Wis. (Feb. 1, 2021) â The National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP) issued a survey to tax professionals in December 2020 with questions about the 2020 filing season, its extended deadline and more.
Of the 589 respondents, 61.8% reported they thought the July 15, 2020, filing extension for individual returns was positive for them as a practitioner, and 77% of tax professionals thought the extension was positive for their clients.
As a follow up, 53% of respondents were in favor of another filing extension in 2021.
Thirty-eight residents at long-term care homes in B.C. died in the week ending Thursday, Jan. 27, according to information that is now being published on a weekly basis by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control. The province began publishing the information under pressure to be more transparent about what was happening in individual care homes, which have been hit hard in the pandemic with 712 deaths, accounting for 60 per cent of all COVID-19 deaths in the province. Royal City Manor is owned by Revera, a large seniors’ residence operator in Canada that is a subsidiary of a federal Crown corporation that manages the pension plans for the federal public service, the Canadian Forces and the RCMP.
National Association of Tax Professionals announces 2021 board of directors One new member elected to NATP board, joins eight others
BriefingWire.com, 1/27/2021 - APPLETON, Wis. (Jan. 27, 2021) â Members of the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP) elected one new member to its 2021 board of directors. Charles Markham, MST, EA, joins eight additional board members who will guide the association through the coming year.
Other board members include: Brett Rosser, EA, president; Jaimee Hammer, EA, vice president; Sherri Hoskisson, EA, MST, secretary; Jim Vann, CRTP, AFSP, treasurer; Sally Achord, EA; Melissa Bowman, EA; and Richard Ganong, MBA, EA.
Rosser served his first year as board president in 2020. He has previously served on the National Finance Committee and as vice president.
Nepean retirement home Ottawa s 1st to get vaccineÂ
A Nepean retirement home where 10 people have died from COVID-19 is the first in the city to begin vaccinating residents and staff against the illness, Ottawa Public Health says.Â
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Revera s Valley Stream will be the first retirement home in Ottawa to vaccinate residents. An outbreak of COVID-19 at the Nepean facility has killed 10 since Jan. 2. (Google Street View )
A Nepean retirement home where 10 people have died from COVID-19 is the first in the city to begin vaccinating residents and staff against the illness, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) says.Â