Talk:Preparer Tax Identification Number

Different concepts have been confused
This article needs some work. The requirement that a tax return preparer use either a social security number or a PTIN when preparing federal tax returns as part of his or her business pre-dates, by many, many years, the IRS regulatory program for tax return preparers that was shut down in January 2013. As far as I know, the shut down of the program does not change the requirement that a paid tax return preparer sign the tax return and affix either the SSN or the PTIN.

I deleted some of the most confusing language, but the article still shows a lot of confusing "drift" between discussion of PTIN and discussion of the now-halted regulatory program. A casual reader might easily infer that the two are one and the same.

I don't have time to this right away, though. Famspear (talk) 04:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)