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Tax Preparers
Prepares tax returns and helps people and businesses with taxes.
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Tax preparers gather records, prepare returns, find deductions and credits, and explain tax rules, especially busy from January to April. Enrolled agents and CPAs represent clients with the IRS.
The guide checks the courses against your plan, with things to try each year. Free account needed.
High school courses that build toward it
- Personal Finance · Career and Technical
Builds economics and accounting, which this job uses.
- Pre-Algebra · Math
Builds math, which this job uses.
- Government and Economics · Social Studies
Builds law and government, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds working with customers and clients, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
Tax Preparers on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.