Tax Complexity and the IRS
» Tax Complexity and the IRS, Volume 6, Issue 6, 2006
If respondent used paid tax preparer/accountant to prepare last business tax return.
1a. Which best describes the principal reason you used a preparer or accountant?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More cost-effective than to do it myself | 5 | ||
| 2 | I don’t understand how to complete the forms | 4 | ||
| 3 | Tax laws and requirements are too complex to do it myself | 27 | ||
| 4 | Would rather rely on a tax professional to assure compliance | 47 | ||
| 5 | Tax professional most likely to find the lowest legal amount of tax | 11 | ||
| 6 | Other | 2 | ||
| 7 | All | 3 | ||
| 8 | DK/Refuse | 1 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 674 | |||
Notes: Forty-seven (47) percent of small-employer taxpayers who used a paid tax preparer/accountant to prepare their last business tax return identify assuring compliance as the principal reason they used a tax professional (Q#1a).
