AICPA survey shows incentives, barriers to electronic filing of Form 990.

• Position: American Institute of Certified Public Accountants - Brief Article

To help assess how electronic filing of Form 990 is catching on among CPAs, the AICPA recently conducted a survey of past participants of the Institute's Not-for-Profit Conference. The 15-question survey asked about incentives to encourage e-filing as well as barriers to implementation.

High among the list of incentives the IRS could provide to ensure participation of electronic filing of the 990 series of returns were (more than one selection allowed): electronic acknowledgement (73.1%), electronic extension (68.5%), coordination with software that allows for direct input on form (63.9%) and electronic signature (58.3%). Among the barriers cited were...