Need Some Extra Income? The Demand for Tax Preparers is Huge!

Every day the television news is filled with segments about companies laying-off thousands of employees. These types of stories are emotional and therefore tend to grab the headlines. What you don’t hear are accounts of business sectors that continue to prosper regardless of the economy. Steady growth, year after year, is not something that the media cares to report.

Tax Preparation is one of those segments that continue to expand year after year.  To a large extent this growth is the result of the increasing complexity of the tax code and congressional pressure on the IRS to increase the volume of returns that are electronically filed. Congress wants the IRS to convert more taxpayers from paper to electronic returns because of cost-savings and improvements in accuracy. Unfortunately, the IRS is far behind the goals set by Congress.

It’s true that more people are filing their own taxes online, but most of these people were already doing their own taxes.  What you may not know is that the number of people using a paid preparer over the last 10 years has gone through the roof!

Taxpayers Using A Paid Tax Preparer: 1997-2007

2007-     84 million

1997-     61 million

The paid preparer market has increased by over 23 million customers between 1997 and 2008!

All these factors are important if you are currently employed in a business that is losing ground in these tough economic times, or if you are considering a career change.

As you might expect, as the tax preparation business continues to expand, the demand for trained tax preparers i.

When most people think about professional tax preparation for individuals, they believe they must spend years in school learning to be a “certified public accountant.” Nothing could be further from the truth.  To become a highly-sought professional tax preparer you don’t have to spend years in school or a small fortune on tuition. In fact, PRO-TAX offers a Free Tax School that will teach you in just eight weeks how to prepare over 80% of the tax returns we normally see come through our offices. We also offer free continuing education classes to our employees that will teach you how to handle the other 20%.

The job market today is as competitive as it's ever been. To stand out from the crowd you need extra skills. Taking our Tax School will enhance your credentials and make sure you have a better chance of success in any job search.

If you’d like to work in a recession-proof, government-regulated industry or just want to enhance your resume, attending PRO-TAX’s Nationally-Recognized Tax School can take you where you want to go!

Tax School starts September 16 with morning and evening classes available. If you would like more information just click HERE.  

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