Tax Preparer

(MULTIPLE OPENINGS ACROSS ALL FIVE BOROUGHS. MUST BE BILINGUAL)

We are partnered with a hunger relief organization that operates all over NYC metro area. They are urgently hiring temporary tax professionals to facilitate the preparation of high-quality tax returns for eligible participants. The Tax Quality Reviewer will review and revise each all final tax returns, ensuring completion and accuracy.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Attend and successfully complete the training to be certified by the IRS at the advanced level.
• Successfully learn the Tax Slayer tax preparation software to complete tax returns, prepare and quality review returns using electronic filing software.
• Interview the client to determine that all income is reported and all allowable deductions are claimed.
• Directly prepare and/or quality review the client’s return, based upon the information provided by the client and the client’s answers provided on the intake form.
• Prepare and/or quality review only those returns for which training and certification were provided.
• Accept no payment or other compensation of any kind from the client.
• Inform/refer the client to the other services offered.
• Maintain the confidentiality of the client’s information.
• Ensure that on-site quality review is performed on the return.
• Have the client sign the applicable authorization documents for electronic filing.
• Timely review all returns for tax and technical accuracy before the returns are provided to the clients or electronically transmitted.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual in Spanish, Chinese, French, or Russian
• Basic computer skills for inputting tax return data into the tax preparation software.
• Ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to interview clients about personal, financial matters and communicating tax issues to clients in a non-threatening manner.
• Ability to effectively research tax issues, using the materials available at the site.
• Ability to service low-income communities a helpful and supportive manner.
• Friendly, dependable and flexible and detail-oriented.
• Candidates should have knowledge of personal income taxes as well as tax law knowledge.