Event Date June 17-19, 2025
Event Location Peppermill Resort in Reno, NV
Proposal Deadline Monday, November 25, 2024
The California Society of Enrolled Agents (CSEA) invites you to submit your speaker proposals for Super Seminar 2025. We are now accepting proposals and are seeking your most dynamic Continuing Education (CE) ideas to teach current, leading-edge information to tax industry professionals. If you are a subject matter expert with successful teaching experience presenting live to a large audience, we'll be excited to review your course submissions!
About Super Seminar
Super Seminar is regarded as the nation's premier educational conference for tax practitioners. Hosted by the California Society of Enrolled Agents (CSEA) for over 40 years, the event's success delivers well-respected speakers from across the nation, who produce high-quality resource materials for attendees that address the most pressing tax topics. In addition to delivering world class education, speakers are also encouraged to inspire best practices and create an extraordinary attendee experience.
This multi-day event attracts hundreds of tax professionals from across the country for fellowship, networking, and fun. Attendees are comprised of Enrolled Agents, Certified Public Accountants, Tax Attorneys, Certified Financial Planners, Professional Fiduciaries, Tax Practitioners, Estate Planners, and Enrolled Retirement Plan Agents.
General Engagement Details
The following information provides general details regarding the engagement. The speaker agreement for Super Seminar will include these provisions in detail.
Most Super Seminar sessions are 2 hours each. Consideration will be given to topics requiring 4 hours. Each contracted hour represents 50 minutes of education content. The speaker will provide an attendee handout and PDF version of their PowerPoint presentation.
Attendee handout due date: June 2, 2025
PowerPoint PDF due date: June 10, 2025
General provisions for session materials:
Session materials should consist primarily of original material and be structured with clearly defined sections. Information should be presented primarily as written text. Reference material (i.e., forms, worksheets, publications, etc.) may be used to supplement the text and should not comprise the bulk of the session material. Website URLs should be hyperlinked in all cases.
Travel reimbursement and speaker amenities:
Economy travel to and from the event will be reimbursed in accordance with guidelines outlined in the compensation schedule of the speaker agreement, including lodging and per diem. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the speakers' lounge. All speakers will receive complimentary registration to Super Seminar.
Product/service promotion prohibited:
CSEA strives to provide a unique forum for tax professionals to discuss and exchange ideas free from commercial content. To maintain the educational integrity of Super Seminar, presenters are prohibited from using this opportunity as a platform for promotion of their products and services.
Proposal Submission Process
Each potential speaker will be provided with a unique link to CSEA's custom proposal submission portal (shown below). Proposals submitted within the last two years will be displayed and the speaker may update/resubmit for the new year and/or submit new proposals.
Proposal Evaluation Process
A Super Seminar Content Subcommittee will evaluate all session proposals based on the following criteria.
Speaker qualifications:
You should be very well versed in the topic being proposed and equally skilled at presenting to a live audience. The Subcommittee will be looking for:
- Evidence that the speaker is an expert in the topic, based on the information provided within your submission
- Proven ability to engage a live audience and deliver session content within the appropriate length of time.
Topic timeliness and relevancy:
- The proposed topic must be current, of educational value to tax professionals, and qualify for Continuing Education (CE) credits by the IRS-RPO and/or CTEC, at a minimum.
- It has a practical, real-world application or solution (best practices, case studies) relevant to the industry's body of knowledge and timelines.
- It focuses on how (versus only the why or what).
- It introduces new ideas and methods, or it promotes the development of new skills and knowledge.
Overall proposal quality:
- Session title and course description must be clear, concise, creative, informative, and accurately reflect the proposed content.
- 3-5 Learning objectives must be included per proposed session.
Proposal Acceptance
The selection process is scheduled to take place by December 15, 2024. The Super Seminar Content Subcommittee will select proposals based on a variety of factors to achieve an overall program with a range of tax topics of varying complexity. CSEA staff will notify all speakers shortly after the selection process is complete.
Speaker Compensation
CSEA provides hourly compensation plus reimbursement for travel expenses and per diem. Our standard policy is to cover each speaker's hotel room starting the day prior to your speaking engagement through the night of the final engagement day. Breakfast and lunch are provided on event dates in the speaker's lounge.
Potential Topics
Business
- Business Updates: Corporate Transparency Act 2021
- 1031 Exchange reporting for the IRS (and CA FTB), with pen-to-paper examples
- Form 7203 S-Corp
- Closure of a Corporation/Partnership, filing steps of last return
- R&D (Research and Development) how to claim the credit
- Year End tax planning: review depreciation, employee benefits, retirement plan
- Installment sale and how to treat it for tax purposes. Form 6252 pen to paper
- Cannabis - Tax reporting, new laws
Individual
- Hobby or Business - Schedule C
- Cryptocurrency - Bookkeeping and Tax Reporting
- Prepare a deceased taxpayers final return
- Nonresident Alien return, how to handle ITIN issue
- RMD's under Secure 2.0
- RSU's and ESO's- understand the differences and how to report on return
Ethics
- Data Security Plan: Not Optional, Practical Examples
- Ethics, Best Practices, Circular 230 & IRC Requirements
Representation
- Abating Penalties and Writing Letters to the IRS and States
- Advanced Collection Strategies for: Disabled, Retired and Self-Employed
- Defending Audits
- Complete form 433 to resolve IRS collection
- What To Do When a Client Dies and has Back Owed Taxes
- Representation with a focus on nonfliers, where do we start
- Tax Impact from recent court cases
California
- California Tax Update
- EDD: Audits of Independent Contractor vs. Employee Status and appeals before CUIAB
- FTB Representation Issues
- Nexus Sales tax
Foreign
- Foreign Asset and Income Reporting
- Foreign Tax Credit and Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (simple to complex)
Other
- Trusts -- pen to paper
- Practice Management (these types of programs will be considered, but attendees would not be awarded CE credit)