Sorry. The answer to your question is that out of state help is just fine with
me. I have absolutely no idea of how Californicate regulates return preparers;
I didn't even know they were regulated.

You are right; manufacturing accounting is the second semester of Accounting
101. Similarly, transistor circuit design is the second semester of Engineering
101. If that isn't your bent, more better you come to somebody like me who
speaks Hfe (and hfe as well) and Miller capacitance as a second language. It is
far better to do what you do well and let somebody else do what they do well. I
have found that to be the optimal combination for preserving income -- and
that's what I'm trying to do.

Jim




"TaxSrv"
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:


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-From a fully credentialed bean counter with a tax practice: You didn't
-say whether out-of-state help is OK, but doing that for tax prep can
-be a bit problematic in general even for federal. From my
-understanding of Kaliforneeah and their increasingly whimsical ways of
-regulating return preparers, I wouldn't do it due no experience beyond
-a few nauseating CA returns and inability to spread my costs of
-compliance around to other CA clients, unless you want to pay for it.
Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com