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The assets of NextPoint Financial, parent of chain Liberty Tax, have been sold after approval by a Canadian Court and under Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the United States.
Liberty and Canadian Community Tax will continue to operate under the ownership of BP Commercial Funding Trust, Series SPL-X
The action was spurred by NextPoint’s disastrous acquisition of LoanMe, which was supposed to be operated in tandem with Liberty as a one-stop consumer operation. NextPoint purchased both LoanMe and Liberty in 2021 but shuttered LoanMe for new loans in July 2023. NextPoint sued AmeriFirst Home Improvement Finance seeking millions of dollars in damage for the alleged failure of AmeriFirst to live up to the terms of a loan servicing contract.
LoanMe, which had continued to service existing loans, will be wound down. NextPoint’s announcement said there would be no assets to distribute to creditors
Wolters Kluwer: Sales Getting Tough
Wolters Kluwer has reported difficult selling conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. The company made the observations in its trading update for the first quarter ended March 31.
Taxpayers Offered Virtual Settlement Days
Virtual Settlement Days are being offered to unrepresented taxpayers to help resolve pending cases before the United States Tax Court. The Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel reported the first two events for docketed cases will take place in Detroit or Atlanta.
Tax Stats: Edging Toward July 15
The number of tax returns received by the Internal Revenue Service through April 24 suggests returns will come in at a gradual pace until the exended tax season deadline of July 15. The 121,892,000 received for the reported period to -date was down 12.5 percent from 139,364,000 received for the period ended April 26, 2019.
Liberty Stores Off 37% Over Three Years
Liberty Tax has seen its store count drop by 37 percent over the last three years. Numbers filed by the Franchise Group, the parent to the tax chain, showed there were 2,494 tax store locations as of December 31, down from 3710 operating during tax season 2017.
Tax Returns Fall Further Behind 2019
The traditional tax season deadline of April 15 is past. And with the extension of the due date to July 15 the total returns received by the Internal Revenue Service fell further behind last year.
Avalara Tool Assesses Risk
Avalara says its newly introduced Sales Tax Risk Assessment tool provides a detailed assessment of state-by-state tax obligation risk. The sales tax software company said this month the self-serve online resource will provide the report over email.
Professional Efiles Plunge
Statistics from the Internal Revenue Service show that efiled returns from paid preparers dropped sharply as the traditional tax season neared its end. The number of efiles from professionals fell to 50,511,000 for the period ended April 10, down 20.1 percent from 63,248,000 for the period ended April 12, 2019.
IRS Advises VPN Use
The Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners is recommending tax professionals who work remotely should utilize a Virtual Private Network. That recommendation came this week as the IRS reported an upswing in data theft from criminals trying to take advantage of COVID-19 and Economic Impact Payments.
Professional Efiles Fall Sharply
Efiled tax returns submitted by professional preparers fell significantly behind the year ago totals in the latest tax season results. Figures from the Internal Revenue Service this week for the season through March 3 show the number of professional filed returns were 11.5 percent behind the total for last year’s season through March 5.
IRS Extends Tax Deadlines
The Internal Revenue Service has extended all tax deadlines through July 15. The action followed increasingly urgent requests for the IRS to match the extension of individual income taxes to the same date.
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