If you need a tax preparer for the 2025 filing season, now is the time to start looking, experts say. Here are the key things ...

A decade ago, a Pew Research Center study found that 33% of Americans claimed that they did their own taxes while 56% said someone else prepared their returns. Over the years, as the IRS implemented ...

A clear division is emerging between smaller independent RIAs and their larger billion-dollar competitors, as some firms ...

One of the biggest decisions taxpayers face each year is how to file their returns. Last year, 86%, nearly 132 million, of returns were filed with tax software. But most of those computer-prepared and ...

An easy way to find a local tax return preparer is probably to search online for "tax preparers near me" and pick someone from the list. But that isn't the best way. If you want a qualified, honest, ...

There are no shortage of tax preparers in this country. Most are very good. Some are very, very bad. As a student of the law with twenty years of preparation experience, I've developed a ...

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations for the tax preparer due diligence penalty, extending it from the Earned Income Tax Credit to other types of refundable tax credits. The final ...

That's just one of the tactics that tax preparers are rolling out this season in an effort to woo your business. Competition for services remains fierce for the more than 50% of taxpayers who use a ...

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