Find & Compare Tax Service Providers in Your Area!

Tax service providers prepare and file returns for individuals and businesses, and the stronger ones stay with you afterwards when a notice arrives. This page tends to draw people whose return has outgrown software — self-employment income, rental property, a home sale, a move between states mid-year — or who have back years still unfiled.

Anyone paid to prepare a federal return must have a preparer tax identification number from the IRS, but the credential behind it varies. CPAs, enrolled agents, and tax attorneys can represent you before the IRS on any matter; most other preparers cannot. Ask who signs the return, whether they will handle an audit letter, and how the fee is set — per form, per hour, or flat. Walk away from anyone who bases the fee on the size of your refund or wants the refund routed through their own account. Serious disputes may call for tax lawyers.

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