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CAMICO Tip: Best Practices When E-filing Tax Returns

Q: With most tax returns being e-filed, has CAMICO noticed any trends in e-filings not going through? If so, what advice do you have for policyholders to prevent or address these situations? A: CAMICO has observed a rise in issues with e-filed tax returns, including processing failures and fraudulent filings. To address these challenges, firms … Read more

Loss Prevention Trend: The Information Security Plan (“ISP” or “WISP”)

Q: My firm has a Written Information Security Plan (“WISP”), but it hasn’t been updated since early 2023. How often should we be reviewing/updating our WISP? And have there been any significant changes to the regulatory guidance related to physical, technical, and/or administrative safeguards a CPA firm is required to have in place to protect … Read more

CAMICO appoints Julie Schilling as its incoming Chief Financial Officer

Julie Schilling, CPA, will become Chief Financial Officer, effective January 1, 2025. SAN MATEO, Calif. (November 7, 2024) — CAMICO, the nation’s largest CPA-directed program of insurance and risk management for the accounting profession, announced that Julie Schilling, CPA, will become its next Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective January 1, 2025, when CAMICO’s current CFO … Read more

Top 10 Loss Prevention and Claims Trends

CAMICO’s Loss Prevention and Claims departments work with CPA policyholder firms every day on difficult risk management issues. The following Q&A covers 10 questions and trends that our specialists hear about most frequently from our policyholders. Top Loss Prevention Trends Q: What are some of the risks and general guidelines for our firm if we … Read more

Risk Management Aspects of the IRS’s Second ERC Voluntary Disclosure Program and the ERC Withdrawal Option

On August 15, 2024, the IRS announced a second Employee Retention Credit Voluntary Disclosure Program (“ERC-VDP”) for the benefit of businesses and tax-exempt organizations that erroneously claimed the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) for 2021 and have received a credit or refund prior to August 15, 2024. The initial Voluntary Disclosure Program (“VDP”) for the 2020 … Read more