SJR8 Summary

• Designates February 15, 2016, as Enrolled Agent Day in Alabama and urges citizens to recognize this designation.

• Over 150 million individual income tax returns and 11 million business income tax returns are filed annually in the United States, with over 82 million prepared by tax professionals.

• Tax refund fraud is projected to reach $21 billion by 2016, and annual tax evasion in the United States exceeds $300 billion.

• Enrolled agents are the only federally licensed tax professionals whose credentials rely exclusively on knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code and possess unlimited rights to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service.