Finding a Great tax accountant in New Jersey

If your taxes are more of a tangled web on a spreadsheet, or even if you just can’t bear the thought of doing them yourself, then you are going to want to find a great tax accountant in New Jersey who will help you to dot all of those and cross all of those without all of the stress that tends to hit so many of us around tax season.

Okay, but how exactly do you find a tax accountant in New Jersey and avoid getting teamed up with someone who doesn’t perform? Here are our top 3 tips to help you ace it and get the right accountant for you:

1. Get a referral

One of the best ways to find a competent and useful (to you anyway) tax accountant in New Jersey for you, is to use your existing network. If you are someone who is self-employed or who owns a business, there are undoubtedly going to be many networks and organizations related to your field, and that can point you in the right direction of a tax accountant who specializes in doing the taxes of people in your industry, so that is always a good place to start if you want to find someone relevant and highly recommended.

Of course, you can (and you really should) also ask people that you know personally (and trust implicitly) to recommend someone, and this may be even better because your friends and family will always give you their honest opinions of the tax professionals they have used in the past, so you will very easily be able to dodge a dud or run away from a rogue.

If you do not have access to either of the above, and even if you do because, y’know, you can never do too much due diligence, there are also online reviews of tax accountants that you can peruse to see what people are saying about them. Good business leads to great partnerships. You should aim to have a good relationship with your accountant and have sessions to strategize your future plans with your company or personal items.

2. Check their tax identification number (PTIN)

If you do not want to find yourself on the wrong side of the IRS (and who does?), then once you have narrowed down your potential selection of tax accountants in New Jersey, it is so very important that you take some time out to check their tax identification number (PTIN).

Why? Because those folks at the IRS require every individual who prepares, or even helps to prepare, federal tax returns to have an officially assigned PTIN number. If a tax accountant in New Jersey does not have one of these, then you can safely say that they are not worth your consideration at this time.

3. Check their memberships

Most of the best tax accountants in New Jersey (the ones you want to use, at least) will be members of at least one professional organization, such as the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) or the National Society of Enrolled Agents (NAEA).

These organizations all have their own codes of ethics and specific requirements for member conduct, as well as their own certification programs, so by choosing a tax accountant in New Jersey who is a member of one of them, you can be fairly sure that they are a true professional with the necessary experience and a track record for behaving appropriately. Basically, bad accountants stand out by not being in an organization.

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