Posted on 11/12/2025 12:39:05 PM PST by AAABEST
I will post a link to that thread and also links to news stories about the very problematic situation facing the industry.
One particularly kool FReeper, who was in the biz, wished us well. This interaction gave me the idea to try FR. Worth a shot.
We want Americans. If anybody knows ANYBODY, and that person lasts until Feb 1 - the first month of tax season - you will get a $500 finders fee.
PLEASE HELP.
I’ll pay 501.
One jackass, who came across as drunk and screeched hate my way suggested we just “train” a CPA - lol.
The ignoramous was clueless of the fact that “training” a CPA is a 4 years of college.
Here is that thread:
Trump Tells Laura Ingraham the U.S. Lacks ‘Talented People’ in Discussion on H1-B Visas:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4352030/posts
Here is one of many articles describing the shortage as “critical” and “severe:”
lmao
Some people here can be as mean as anybody on the Internet.
I keep a list of those ones, and just don’t respond to them.
So where have all the good CPAs gone?
I assume it wasn’t like this 20 years ago(?)
I’ve been tax returns for over 40 years. I have as much work as I want to handle.
You just get to the point where you say “This is all I can handle” or you just work more.
You used to be able to hire someone out of college, but who want to go into retail-level tax preparation nowadays if it’s going to be obsolete in 10-15 years?
When I go to seminars, I’m in my sixties, and I look around and I am one of the younger guys there. Who the hell wants to work this hard?
Ya'll know everything about the accounting business.
1. Double your prices
2. If you lose 50% of your clients - you end up making just as much money while working half as hard.
I thought this work was all going to AI.
What sort of tax matters are most of your clients in need of help with -
(a) just individual income tax returns?
(b) just business income tax returns?
(C), if (b) then what sorts of businesses?
“I keep a list of those ones, and just don’t respond to them.”
ditto ... anyone here who grossly insults me personally goes on my list to never, ever respond to them for any reason ...
Just a suggestion: Have you reached out to any universities for new graduates? The University of Georgia J.M. Tull School of Accounting has a solid program and no shortage of sharp students graduating with bachelor’s or master’s degrees in accounting.
Hey Wuli - we do individual and some very large corporate returns, consulting and books. A lot of international work too.
We really need someone who can review the above as opposed to just prep. Also client interaction.
We’ve taken on interns in the past with mixed results, but we really need a CPA or manager who can review work done by others.
I have an Accounting degree as does my son. I did software development and he is an electrician. There is a reason why CPA’s are hard to find. It’s overwhelming work although I found it interesting and thought about retooling after I retired in 2024.
My BF is a CPA. He is great at reviewing work...but not doing it.
PeopleSoft/Customer Relationship Management/third party software. Cheap and not customer service friendly but prefer dealing with human beings face-to-face (Gutted the accounting department for that crap). Computer technologies dumbs down societies for the most part. Some good things but overall a net loss in the long run.
Thanks. I was never a CPA nor an accountant.
Professionally I was an IT (Information Technology) manager and then director for a multi-billion dollar non-profit pension and insurance outfit. We - my small team and I - built all their systems because the CEO was of a mind that third party developed systems could never be as good as we could build ourselves. So we did. From the pension system for the individual pension accounts, to the whole chart of accounts system, to the financial reporting systems, to eventually the investment security portfolio management system, AND my CEO and my team wrote the actuarial mortality reporting system for the pensions being paid out and the individual projected benefit for someone at some future specified retirement date.
None of that made me or my programming staff accountants or investment accounts, but getting from them what the requirements were for all the systems and getting them programmed and working gave us a ton of financial education.
Personally, I owned rental income property for many years, many years ago, and never hired accountants or tax advisers. I always read all the expert tax books, got the updates every year and read all the pertinent IRS guidance as regs as needed, preparing all my own quarterly estimated and annual state and federal tax statements. And do the same for a neighbor now.
Again, not of that experience makes me “certified” in any of it; just able and willing to dig in and do it myself. No problem because I was always signing myself for myself; and my neighbor here trusts me after years of no questions from state or federal tax people.
I have a Bachelor’s in Biz Ad with a concentration in accounting. I was going to be a CPA. After I graduated I went to work for an accounting firm doing taxes. Hated it. Left and got a position as a headhunter for a private university instead. lol Big difference!
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