How to Become a Tax Preparer and Earn Big Part-Time
What you'll learn
- launch a one-person tax-service.
- students will learn how to find more tax clients than they can handle using both online and offline marketing techniques
- students will go through each step necessary to satisfy the IRS's mandatory requirements (PTIN) and learn which requirements are voluntary.
- students will learn which business structure saves on taxes.
- students will explore the most affordable professional tax software and the most elite tax software for tax professionals in the industry
- students will learn how to grow their business to a full-time year-round income, usually within one year.
- students will learn what other tax professionals are charging throughout the country. Students will also learn how to increase the value of their services.
- Students will learn how to lower their own taxes and help clients as well
Requirements
- It helps if students have a strong "like" for numbers
- Students need an Internet connection and a basic understanding of how the Internet works
Description
Ten Lectures are jam-packed with information, tips, and knowledge on building, starting, and growing a one-person tax business. Students learn everything necessary to launch a successful Tax Service.
Where and how to find tax clients
Earning potential based on services provided and location
The IRS's requirements are both mandatory and voluntary
What you need to get started (Professional Tax Software/Supplies)
What to charge clients and how to increase your value.
How to grow your business to a full-time income and replace your day job within one to three years.
This course does not include actual tax preparation training. It is based on business skills, training, and marketing a "one-person tax service."
In 2024, Tax professionals earn an average of $565 for a Form 1040 with Itemized Deductions. This rate can easily increase to $750 to $850 for individuals or married couples filing a Schedule C.
A total of 150 clients will easily place your income between $90K and $105K per year, working only three to six months out of the year.
Tax professionals have options regarding the IRS. However, some requirements are mandatory. The IRS requirements are easy enough to fulfill, and the course will show you the ins and outs.
The most crucial factor is that preparing taxes can be a foundation for enormous growth for your one-person start-up. You can offer additional services to grow your business income exponentially.
Who this course is for:
- People who love numbers and have a healthy respect for the tax system
- This course is for experienced and beginning tax professionals who want to increase their client base.
- This is an excellent course for students with a major in finance
- Retired individuals who want to supplment their retirement income as a tax preparer
- Individuals who are looking for a part-time, home-based, self-employed career. Students can prepare taxes evenings and weekends.
- Stay-at-home moms, who are looking for a part-time gig
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Instructor
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 377 Reviews
- 17,594 Students
- 10 Courses
C. Ingraham, RTRP is the founder of Taxes Will Travel, a mobile tax service established in 1999 in the San Francisco Bay Area. During these years Sandy taught basic tax courses for Jackson Hewitt and Liberty Taxes, retail tax franchises in the bay area. She is actively registered with the IRS since 2000 and satisfied the new RTRP qualifications in 2012/13. She is now retired and traveling the world slowly.
The author of several tax books, both tax savings, benefits, and tax loopholes, she has published in both digital and print formats.
When not writing tax books, she can be found writing children's books for preschool and kindergarten, a career she enjoyed before becoming a tax accountant.
in 2005, she became a certified Internet Marketing Specialist. This career move was short-lived due to the increased workload of tax clients. and Invoice Lines of Credit funding opportunities. She worked with government contractors and vendors to obtain accounts receivable funding to eliminate cash flow issues when fulfilling government contracts.
After retiring C. Ingraham wrote the book How to Become a Tax Preparer and Earn Big Part-Time. The book was published in electronic format and has experienced a consistent sales history. When she was introduced to Udemy, she felt the book could be a foundation for an online video course.
There were challenges in getting the Udemy course approved. The biggest challenge being that of a recording studio. She wanted the course to be about the subjects tax professionals rarely hear about. Securing new tax clients and the essential procedural methods of launching a one-person tax service to generate profit.
Her most recent accomplishment includes a digital ebook in the Kindle store entitled: The Airbnb Lifestyle, How to Travel the World on $1600 a Month.