Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Sun, 06 Apr: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:42:01AM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > > Omer, > > > 2. How to get the accounts notarized (or whatever) by a CPA? > > I don't think you would want to. In order for YOU to enter the data into > an apporoved accounting program, you must be a level 3 (as in 1 is the > lowest) certified bookkeeper.
no certification needed to use Hashavshevet, no certification needed to submit the annual and bimonthly reports of a self-employed individual. those rules you are talking about affect only corporations (Khavarot Reshumot with khet-pe or khet-tzadi, not Osek Murshe) > If you use an alternate method of entering the data and keeping the books, > or you are not certified, you can not legally submit the data to the tax > authorities. the final report is done on paper anyway, not a floppy, at least by my CPA, and therefore it's manually copied to a form anyway. I can take the same form and fill it up and submit it myself, the Tax authority even gives free "classes" each year to Oskim Murshim that want to file the report on their own and save a few thousand shekels on a CPA. I chose to use a CPA because e saves me money of return that I would not know how, and because I trust him with papers more than myself, certainly worth spending 2200 NIS once a year (plus VAT :-) to be calm that the Tax shmucks don't come hunting your PERSONAL derierre if any excrement is flung towards the ventilation system. I call that "insurrance", and it's fully tax deductable too. > For best results and less cost, you can submit your data to them in a > format they can import the data into their program. From what I understand > all the approved programs can read .xls (Exel format) spreadsheets. that means nothing of course. if I don't submit the data in the correct cells, the file format can be Qtext for all they care. They still have to copy the totals from the Excell into Hashavshevet, unless the government allows you to download approved Excell templates for accounting. I haven't seen one, but I haven't looked. -- Totally wasetd Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
