I see there’s a bipartisan bill in Congress to regulate return preparers, requiring minimum competency, continuing education, and giving IRS the right to strip incompetents and fraudsters of their PTINs.

That’s good news for the public, especially those whom I have heretofore blogged, who were examined, assessed deficiencies and chops, and had to appeal the various mulcts, to which their larcenous preparers had subjected them, to the good offices of US Tax Court.

It’s bad news for this blogger, as the victims of the swindler-preparers provided good blogfodder. Hopefully, the statute, if enacted, will open a vista of the unPTINed appealing their ousters. But I doubt Congress will bestow jurisdiction thereover upon US Tax Court.