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IRS-approved continuing education (CE) providers help in this effort by supporting the program and providing the required federal tax courses.  \nTo meet program requirements for receiving an Annual Filing Season Program – Record of Completion from the IRS and be added to a public database of return preparers on the IRS website, voluntary participants must:  \no Complete 18 hours of CE that includes the six-hour Annual Federal Tax Refresher (AFTR) course and test  \no Renew preparer tax identification number (PTIN) for the upcoming year and  \no Consent to adhere to the obligations in Circular 230, Subpart B and section 10.51  \nFor those of you that will be offering the AFTR course and test this year, keep the following points in mind:  \no Be sure to read the AFTR Info Letter that was sent to the secure mailbox of your provider account on 3/31/2022 for the specifics of the program.  \no Providers offering an AFTR course must cover all AFTR Outline topics. On the test, you should vary the order of the questions so that the questions are presented randomly or arranged so that the question topics are not in the exact sequence as covered in the program material. We ask that you mix up the order of the topics tested to strengthen the assessment of the participant’s comprehension.  \no Your AFTR course presentation must be 6 hours in length, regardless of delivery method. We allow some tolerance, however any material totaling less than 6.0 or more than 6.5 hours using the Word Count Formula, will have to be modified to become compliant. A provider offering alive program must develop a detailed timed agenda for their 6-hour AFTR course.  \no All delivery methods should provide detailed written material for participants to take the open book final exam. Again, if your delivery method is self-study, make sure you use the Word Count Formula to ensure your course meets the 6-hour course requirement. While review questions are required for general IRS CE self-study programs, they are optional for an AFTR self-study program. If offered, no more than 18 review questions can be counted in your Word Count Formula. Here is a quick tip for achieving exactly 6.0 hours for your self-study AFTR course. If your course contains exactly 48,000 words with 18 review questions or 54,000 words with no review questions, your course will be 6.0 hours on the nose.  \no Participants must complete the AFTR course and exam in its entirety to earn the 6 credit hours for AFTR. Partial hours are not allowed.  \no Providers must use the exam reconciliation form that the IRS began using in 2021. The form is like the AFTR course reconciliation form, and it serves as a good visual aid for your course developer to ensure that all outline topics are tested and helps them to visually see how their questions are dispersed. The form also helps the IRS during our AFTR reviews, as we are looking to see how you did in those areas as well.  \no If you are selling your AFTR program or if you are buying a program from another provider, please send an email to [rpo.ce@irs.gov](rpo.ce@irs.gov) informing us. We must review all sellers’ AFTR material. This ensures that your course meets our standards, and during our AFTR reviews, purchasers will not have to resubmit material from a known seller or be responsible for correcting issues found in unreviewed purchased material.  \no Regardless of when you plan to offer your AFTR course, AFTR program numbers are only available from April 1 – October 1. No AFTR program numbers will be issued after October 1. Again… no exceptions! This allows us time to review select programs and for CE providers to have sufficient time to make any needed revisions and offer the course ahead of December 31, which is when the program ends.  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