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ERPA INFORMATION:
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ERPA's new mailbox: If you have any questions, comments, complaints, or concerns regarding EPRA e-mail them to tege.ep.erpa@irs.gov.
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Enrolled Agent Change of Address Notification. It is extremely important that enrolled agents advise us when changing their address. Sending in a change of address on your tax form, or otherwise, does not necessarily get to our Office of Practitioner Enrollment (OPE) in Detroit, MI. No one should assume that OPE has any other address information than what enrolled agents, themselves, send to us. Consequently, if enrolled agents were to miss a renewal, etc., because they did not get mail from us, we do not consider as a mitigation that we did not have their latest address information. Go to " Applying for Renewal of Enrollment to Practice Before the IRS" for complete info regarding a change of address.
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Checking on the Status of an Enrolled Agent
If you would like to find out the status of an Enrolled Agent, please send an email to our Detroit office at epp@irs.gov, or call our Detroit office at (313)234-1280. Another alternative is to send an email to the OPR mailbox at opr@irs.gov. In either case, please be sure to include the full name of the individual along with their address.
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OPR Meets with Newly Formed Advisory Committee Subgroup
In order to provide better guidance, an Advisory Committee under IRPAC was created. OPR met with the group on January 29-30, 2008. It is anticipated that the group will advise OPR on real world dilemmas faced by practitioners on a day to day basis. The committee has members from the ABA, AICPA, and the American Society of Appraisers among others.
The members are: Mark Castro, Tax Support Manager, Orrtax Software Solutions; Conrad Davis, partner, Ueltzen & Company, LLP; Thomas DeGeorgio, Deputy Head US Tax, Director of Tax Assurance and Operations, Shell Oil Company; Teresa Douglass, Industry Operations Manager, H&R Block; William Frazier, Senior Managing Director, Howard Frazier Barker Elliott, Inc.; Lonnie Gary, Director, RSM McGladrey; Larry Gray, partner, AGC-Alfermann, Gray & Co., CPAs LLC; Karen Hawkins, partner, Taggart & Hawkins, PC; Ronald Larson, practicing attorney, estate/gift taxation; Joan LeValley, owner JCL and Company; Brian Yacker,
partner Green Hasson & Janks.
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All Approved Enrolled Agent Continuing Education Program Sponsors
Please be advised that the sponsor renewal period has been revised, pursuant to section 10.6(g)(5) of the final regulations governing practice before the Internal Revenue Service (Circular 230). Sponsors will now file an application to renew between May 1, 2008, and July 31, 2008 (past practice had been between December 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008). The effective date of renewal will be "the first day of the third month (October 1, 2008) following the close of the renewal period." Due to this revision, all currently approved program sponsor letters will expire on September 30, 2008, not March 31, 2008. We plan to send out renewal letters, along with Form 8498, in late April 2008. If there are any questions, please send an email to opr@irs.gov or call Mike Hahn at (202)622-6750 (not a toll-free number).
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