Annual tax school, ag tax workshop offer training, credits
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tax professionals can receive training on tax law and farmers can receive information on agricultural income tax issues at two annual Purdue Extension workshops.
The Income Tax School will be this month and early December, followed by the Agricultural Tax Workshop in mid-December.
The Income Tax School provides practical information for filing individual and small-business returns, said Purdue University agricultural economist and tax law specialist George Patrick.
"This year's program will review recently enacted tax and related legislation," Patrick said. "Provisions taking effect, or sun-setting, in 2010 and 2011 will be emphasized."
The Income Tax School offers 16 hours of continuing education credits to accountants, enrolled agents, attorneys and certified financial planners. Attorneys also can qualify for as many as 12.9 hours of continuing legal education.
The two-day workshop runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. local time. Instructors include Patrick, enrolled agents, certified public accountants, former and current Internal Revenue Service employees and a representative of the Indiana Department of Revenue.
An extra hour of ethics training will be available from 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. on the first day of the schools in Muncie, West Lafayette and both Indianapolis locations. This will allow participants to receive two hours of continuing professional credits for ethics. Participants from other school locations are welcome at these sessions.
Tax school dates and locations are:
* Nov. 18-19: Hilton Garden Inn, 53995 Indiana 933, South Bend
* Nov. 18-19: Horizon Convention Center, 401 S. High St., Muncie
* Nov. 22-23: Marriott Hotel, 7202 East 21st St., Indianapolis
* Nov. 22-23: Purdue University Stewart Center, 128 Memorial Mall, West Lafayette
* Nov. 29-30: Johanning Civic Center, 1500 N. Reed Road, Kokomo
* Nov. 29-30: Indiana State University Hulman Memorial Student Union, 200 N. Seventh St., Terre Haute
* Dec. 2-3: United Methodist Church, 201 E. Third St., Seymour
Registration for the Income Tax School is $335. Ethics training is an additional $25.
The Agricultural Tax Workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Dec. 13, at the Wyndham Hotel, 2544 Executive Drive, Indianapolis. Registration is $120 for those who also attend the Income Tax School and $175 for those not who do not. Continuing credits will be available for accountants, enrolled agents and attorneys.
Registration for the Income Tax School and Agricultural Tax Workshop is available at www.conf.purdue.edu/tax
Writer: Jeanne Gibson, 765-496-2384, jegibson@purdue.edu
Source: George Patrick, 765-494-4241, gpatrick@purdue.edu
Ag Communications: (765) 494-2722;
Keith Robinson, robins89@purdue.edu
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