PTIN update: relief for 2011 filing season.

• Position: Update

The IRS expects to apply for PTINs as soon as reasonably possible. The IRS stated in Rev. Proc. 10-41 that the two-step PTIN application process for tax return preparers who are foreign persons or U.S. citizens without a social security number due to conscientious religious objection may take substantially more time to complete than the application process available for tax return preparers with...