Boasberg said in his decision that he would issue a permanent injunction blocking the IRS registration scheme.

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And last Friday a federal judge issued a permanent injunction blocking an IRS plan to regulate and enforce some minimum competency and continuing education requirements on hundreds of thousands of currently unregulated paid tax preparers.

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The authority said clean up work had begun but it was looking at a permanent solution to stop it blocking again.

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