IRS Gets Big Win In Multimillion-Dollar PTIN Fees Case (Forbes) - To fee or not to fee? Thatâs been the question for nearly nine years. Now, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes that it has an answer: a D.C. Circuit Court has upheld the IRS' authority to charge fees for issuing and renewing Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (PTINs).
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Court Upholds IRS PTIN Fees (JofA) - The IRS stopped charging a user fee for PTINs in 2017, after it lost a case in federal district court (Steele, 260 F. Supp. 3d 52 (D.D.C. 2017)) that held the IRS had no authority to charge a fee to tax preparers to obtain PTINs.