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IRS Registered Tax Return Preparer Competency Exam Review

 
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How to Pass the RTRP Exam
Steps to Becoming an RTRP
About Gleim Study Material

The IRS is now requiring an RTRP certification for tax preparers. Learn about these requirements.

With more than 40 years of experience, Dr. Gleim and TeamGleim have helped millions of accountants earn their EA designations, CPA licenses, and CMA and CIA certifications. Now TeamGleim will help you earn your Return Preparer designation. Because our learning system is so advanced, we guarantee that you will pass the RTRP exam.*

When accounting professionals advance their careers, they use Gleim study materials. Do not jeopardize your tax return preparing career; use the materials that EAs, CPAs, CMAs, and CIAs have used for decades: the Gleim materials. It's the name you know, the name you trust.

RTRP Gleim Online

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about this online self-study course
(including how to receive CPE credit upon completion).

Free Demo
of Study Unit 1.

Purchase
at a special low introductory cost of $139.95.
Normally $189.95.

Practice Exam
designed to simulate a full-length RTRP exam.
Read about RTRP information and requirements.
*If you follow the Gleim study program.

The IRS is now requiring an RTRP certification for tax preparers. Learn about these requirements.

With more than 40 years of experience, Dr. Gleim and TeamGleim have helped millions of accountants earn their EA designations, CPA licenses, and CMA and CIA certifications. Now TeamGleim will help you earn your Return Preparer designation. Because our learning system is so advanced, we guarantee that you will pass the RTRP exam.*

When accounting professionals advance their careers, they use Gleim study materials. Do not jeopardize your tax return preparing career; use the materials that EAs, CPAs, CMAs, and CIAs have used for decades: the Gleim materials. It's the name you know, the name you trust.

RTRP Gleim Online

Learn More
about this online self-study course
(including how to receive CPE credit upon completion).

Free Demo
of Study Unit 1.

Purchase
at a special low introductory cost of $139.95.
Normally $189.95.

Practice Exam
designed to simulate a full-length RTRP exam.
Read about RTRP information and requirements.
*If you follow the Gleim study program.

Individuals who are compensated for preparation of a federal tax return will soon be required to pass a competency exam (the RTRP Exam) in order to become an IRS Registered Tax Return Preparer.

The following are the only return preparers exempted from the competency examination requirement:

  1. Attorneys
  2. Certified Public Accountants
  3. Enrolled Agents
  4. Supervised preparers

This requirement is designed to increase the availability of well-educated and competent tax return preparers who are better able to prevent errors and thereby save the taxpayer from problems after filing. In addition, the overall Return Preparer program further cements the IRS's commitment to ensuring that all tax practitioners, tax return preparers, and other third parties in the tax system adhere to professional standards and follow the law. The representative authority of signing and nonsigning tax return preparers will remain the same as it currently stands. Under Treasury Department Circular 230, preparers who are not an attorney, CPA, enrolled agent, enrolled actuary, or enrolled retirement plan agent are limited to only representing clients during an examination of any return they have personally prepared.


NOTE: Every person who works on Federal Income Tax Returns should take the RTRP Exam and have a PTIN. Do not get treated as a second-class tax preparer because you have not taken the RTRP Exam. It's easy with Gleim! Begin today by ordering RTRP Gleim Online, which guarantees you will pass!

For detailed information on new RTRP requirements, click on each topic below.

See How to Pass the RTRP Exam for more information on the development and administration of the RTRP exam, including how Gleim will prepare you to pass.

For additional information, view the Frequently Asked Questions about the Gleim RTRP Exam.

The IRS selected Prometric, Inc. to develop and administer all aspects of the RTRP examination.

In 2011, the IRS released Prometric's exam content outlines for this exam. Click here to access these specifications. Information was gathered from the IRS and the preparer community to ensure that the test reflects the necessary knowledge and capabilities of a tax return preparer.

Gleim has developed an RTRP Review System to prepare you for the RTRP exam. Gleim RTRP is now available at a special low price of $139.95. Purchase the Gleim review course for the IRS Registered Tax Return Preparer competency examination. We are confident that our superior materials that utilize our Knowledge Transfer System will help you PASS the first time. In addition, passing an End of Course Test in the Gleim Online course qualifies you to receive the 10 hours of CPE credit for federal tax law topics required of all RTRPs annually.

Just as Gleim has helped thousands of candidates pass the EA exam, Gleim can help you succeed on the new RTRP exam. See what our users had to say.

Additional information about the RTRP Exam can be found on our FAQ Page.

Learn the steps to becoming an RTRP.

  1. Become knowledgeable about the exam.
  2. Purchase the Gleim RTRP Review and Practice Exam to thoroughly prepare for the RTRP exam.
  3. Communicate with your Personal Counselor to design a
    study plan that meets your needs. Call (800) 874-5346, or email
    RTRP@gleim.com.
  4. Register for the RTRP examination by obtaining a PTIN
    and submitting the appropriate form to the IRS.
  5. Schedule your exam with Prometric (online or call center).
  6. Work systematically through each study unit in Gleim
    RTRP Online    . Then, take the RTRP Practice Exam.
  7. Sit for and PASS the RTRP exam while you are in control .
  8. Stay up to date on your Continuing Professional Education with your RTRP Gleim Online Course and Gleim CPE.

Learn about Gleim study material for the RTRP exam.
Gleim Advantages!
  1. The Gleim System for Success -- Our System for Success helps you develop and implement a system for success for the RTRP exam.
  2. Prepares you for the nondisclosed, computer-based exam -- We solicit feedback from Gleim users following each exam, which helps us fine-tune our study materials. NOTE: We are in total compliance with the IRS/Prometric guidelines. We do NOT accept any information about specific RTRP questions (which is prohibited by the IRS/Prometric). We do, however, ask all Gleim users to tell us which topics in our study material need to be added, expanded, or deleted. Please email us after your exam.
  3. Intuitively appealing -- Gleim is easy to understand and easy to study. Rather than extra work, Gleim products are perceived as extra help. Gleim exam preparation materials are used in live Reviews across the world and at Universities throughout the United States!
  4. Helps you understand why you answer practice RTRP questions incorrectly -- Gleim helps you to avoid making mistakes on the actual exam. Most candidates are overly concerned with the correct answers, whereas understanding why each incorrect answer was selected is the key to improving performance.
  5. EFFECTIVE -- We can help! Gleim candidates experience over 90% success when they complete 90% of the work in other Gleim exam review systems.
  6. Cost Effective -- The mission of Gleim is to provide the most effective knowledge transfer system and to assist users in achieving success with the minimum investment of time and resources.
Gleim Works!

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