What Does Your Freedom Look Like?

Test the Waters of Financial Freedom and Run Your Own Business Part-Time

Would you like more time, more income, and more freedom to enjoy your life? While you may not be ready to quit your day job to run your own accounting and tax practice full-time, you can start small by moonlighting as a professional tax preparer. By doing so, you can increase your income significantly while building a client base that will establish a successful business.

Tax Preparers Are in Great Demand

If you’re good with numbers and enjoy accounting, you’d make a great tax preparer. Every year, more and more individuals and businesses have professional tax preparers do their taxes. The complexity of tax laws is enough for most tax payers to look for help during tax season, and because every adult is required to file their taxes every year, your potential client base is limitless.

But why start now? Summer is the perfect time to take the necessary training that will give you the practical skills long before tax season begins. Not only that, you’ll have time to get the word out so that when January rolls around, you have a handful of clients who want you to prepare their taxes.

The Professional Tax Preparer (PTP) Program

Universal Accounting Center’s Professional Tax Preparer Certification is one of the best on the market, affording students hands-on training in the preparation of personal and business returns. The PTP Certification contains all of the following:

• Video Instructio.
• Full 104.
• Full Business Returns (1065, 1120, 1120S.
• Step-by-step instruction in starting a sole practitione.
• One Year Follow-up Support from expert tax preparer.

And while many programs will lecture you on tax law and preparation practices, Universal’s program is effective because it provides the practice that will make your skills perfect. Theory is taught as guiding principles, but the focus is on actually doing taxes to gain proficiency.

The PTP course consists of 20 hours of video training. Most tax preparation courses include books and some worksheets. Our training is very engaging and entertaining as seasoned tax preparers give practical advice on not only tax issues, but give real-world solutions to give you the edge in productivity and profitability. Our instructors know what challenges you will face because they have been there themselves.

The Value of a Professional Designation

To be honest, you don’t need a Professional Tax Preparer designation to prepare taxes. Currently, there are no qualifications for any individual to become a paid tax preparer. But in today’s world of complex tax laws and increasing tax fraud occurrences, tax payers are looking for specialists with credentials. Not only that, but with Congress considering regulation for tax preparers, earning a professional designation is a good start to establishing yourself as a trusted professional. It affords clients peace of mind to know that the individual they’re working with is qualified and knowledgeable. It also affords the tax preparer peace of mind to know they’ve been properly trained. Universal recognizes the value of a professional designation and awards the Professional Tax Preparer Certification.

A Profitable Forecast

Others like you have completed the Professional Tax Preparer Certification with great success. Graduates have prepared tax forms for up to 50 individuals in their first year. At an average of $150 each, they made $7,500 working just the 45 days before April 15. For many people, this represents 3 months of salary. If you are the kind of individual that likes to work hard for a concentrated period of time and then have time to relax, preparing income tax forms could be perfect for you. And imagine, in just 30 hours you can earn enough money moonlighting as a tax preparer to pay for the program 3 times over.