tax season

what our busy season barometer didn’t ask (but should have).

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the annual 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer is one of the most widely researched and respected surveys of trends at accounting firms across the nation.

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as you know if you’re one of the hundreds of barometer respondents, the survey looks for a wide range of hard data and subjective opinions. among them:

• how firms are handling the current tax season
• what their chief concerns are
• success metrics on client lists, revenues, profits and extensions

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how does your practice compare?

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the 2025 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer survey has been gathering data from hundreds of accountants and tax practitioners across the country. here are some of the stats on who’s responding and how they’re doing this year.

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small firms prevail.

• 24 percent are sole practitioners.
• 42 percent have 2-10 people in the firm.
• 17 percent have 11-25 people.

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… and lots of it.

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for many people, especially people running small businesses, their accountant is their best, if not sole, source of advice on financial matters, including business administration.

sometimes they come asking for it.

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sometimes they expect their accountant to offer it.

sometimes they are even willing to pay for it.
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capital, technology and the federal government are just some of the concerns.

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the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer sure opened a can of worms when it asked what will be “important” for businesses over the next 12-18 months.

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the survey offers a list of nine issues to choose from but then asks an open-ended question about what else will be important in the near-term future.

it turns out a lot of things will be important. here are a few in the voices of accounting professionals across the country.
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clients will need your help sorting through it all.

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back in the good ol’ days of december and january, 55 percent of accountants and tax practitioners were identifying technology as the most important issue for business over the next 12-18 months.

tariffs weren’t even on the radar, and inflation ranked third.

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three months later, and so much has changed. the april results of the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer show tariffs and inflation tying at the top of nine issues at 66 percent. technology has dropped to fifth.
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revenue and profit both higher.

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in terms of client lists, revenues and profits, accounting and tax prep firms are reporting a pretty good year – maybe not as good as they expected four or five months ago, but still, not bad.

back in december and january, the early results of the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer survey showed respondents somewhat optimistic about their upcoming year.

• 15 percent expected their client lists to grow by 10 percent or more. another 34 percent were hoping for a growth of 5 to 10 percent.
• a mere 9 percent were anticipating any kind of decrease in clientele.
• 41 percent didn’t see much change coming one way or the other.

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but now with firms looking back over their season, the stats are shifting again, with a big increase in those experiencing a decrease.
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