About Effective Tax CPE
Effective Tax CPE is a Qualified Sponsor (IRS #796)
of continuing professional education for
Enrolled Agents. Our reasonably priced online courses are accepted by the Internal
Revenue Service for the annual continuing education requirement of Enrolled Agents.
The following sections discuss some of the ways in which we believe
Effective Tax CPE provides a more satisfactory online
learning experience.
Payment is not required simply to take a course
A fee is required only if you desire CPE credit and only after a course has been completed
and passed. If you don't need CPE credit (perhaps you're studying for the Enrolled
Agent exam) then no payment is necessary and we hope you benefit from taking the course.
How the courses are structured
Our courses use a question-at-a-time technique that allows the content to be presented
step-by-step. We believe this approach results in useful courses that respect the limited time
available to busy tax professionals for continuing education.
To learn more about the way our courses work, click here
to take a sample course,
What's involved in taking a course
Once you've registered simply add a course to your course list and take it.
Registration consists of an email address and a password which serve as your sign in
credentials.
What's involved in getting CPE credit
On your course list click the "Purchase CPE Credit Using PayPal" button of any course
which you have passed and for which you desire credit. You will be transferred to the PayPal website for
payment. PayPal will notify us of your payment and the certificate of completion required by IRS will be
prepared and emailed to you by the end of the next business day.
The fine print
We try to keep the fine print to a minimum but we do have a few
requirements that are needed to comply with IRS regulations, and
a few more that help us use resources sensibly:
If CPE credit is purchased, the date on the certificate of completion is the date
the course was passed, not the date the CPE credit was purchased.
IRS requires that persons receiving CPE credit be identified by name and PTIN. Except to
correct an error, CPE certificates already issued are not affected by
changes to your name or PTIN. This helps us comply with the course verification
requirements established by IRS.
If CPE credit is not purchased within the first four months of the year following that
in which you added the course to your list of courses, then we assume that credit is not
desired and the course will be removed from your list.
Certificates of Completion are in PDF file format and require Adobe Reader. If you
don't already have Adobe Reader, you can
download it here.
Privacy
We are very sensitive to privacy considerations which is why our database is encrypted
and why we use PayPal for payments. Other than IRS, the information in our database
will not be provided to anyone.
To contact us
Click the "Contact Us" button to send us a question or a comment.
We'll get back to you before the close of the next business day.