Bloomberg Tax
Feb. 20, 2019, 9:45 AM UTC

Tax Overhaul’s ‘Simpler’ Code Making Complex Filing Season

Robert Lee
Robert Lee
Reporter
Andrew M. Ballard
Andrew M. Ballard
Staff Correspondent
Leslie A. Pappas
Leslie A. Pappas
Staff Correspondent

Tax preparers aren’t usually the ones making up the rules as they go along.

But for so far this tax season, tax preparers have at times had to throw out the old rulebook as they slog through the first filing season under which the new tax code applies. And they aren’t the only people struggling to make sense of the vast changes under the 2017 overhaul. Preparers told Bloomberg Tax that they are spending more time this year fielding questions from taxpayers, ranging from confusion over which deductions are no longer in effect to whether refund amounts could vary.

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