Tax Preparer, Individual Income Tax (Form 1040), TY2025 (EA/CPA)
micro1 • Remote, United States
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$30-60/hr
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About this role
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Role Title: Tax Preparer, Individual Income Tax (Form 1040), TY2025 (EA/CPA) Role Type: Contractor Location: US, Remote micro1 is engaging Enrolled Agents and CPAs who actively prepare individual returns to participate in a project supporting a customer. In this role, you’ll apply your hands-on preparation expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required. Your domain knowledge is what matters.
Scope of Work
- Prepare complete federal individual returns (Form 1040) from scratch under TY2025 rules, working through the worksheets, phase-outs, limitations, and carryovers by hand.
- Write clear, concise preparer notes explaining how each figure on the return was derived, so that every number can be traced and reproduced.
- Build realistic, self-contained tax scenarios involving complex returns, including self-employment, partnership and S-corporation K-1s, investments, and credits, specifying facts, dates, filing status, and expected results.
- Review and evaluate AI-generated returns and computations for accuracy and completeness, flagging errors by severity (critical, secondary, minor).
- Identify ambiguities, exceptions, and conflicts in the law or IRS guidance, and document them in structured written feedback within the digital review platform.
- Experts and Adjudicators: strengthen and audit scenarios and reviews, and resolve disputed outcomes (see levels below).
Required Qualifications (all levels)
- Active EA or CPA who currently prepares individual (1040) returns.
- 3+ tax seasons on complex returns (Schedule C, K-1s, investments, credits), not mainly W-2 returns.
- Fluency in TY2025 rules.
- Ability to compute a full return by hand (worksheets, phase-outs, carryovers) and explain each number in clear written notes.
- Strong written communication, with an emphasis on clarity, objectivity, and reproducibility.
Levels
- Contributor: Meets the required qualifications above.
- Expert: 5+ tax seasons. Able to audit and strengthen scenarios, making a task harder without making it vague. Trainer, reviewer, or QC background preferred. A careful, independent preparer who builds the return from scratch.
- Adjudicator: 10+ years with review or sign-off responsibility. IRS exam, representation, or QC partner background preferred.
Preferred Experience (specialty areas)
- Foreign tax credit and K-1 reporting
- Small business: Schedule C, Section 179, QBI deduction
- Investments and capital gains
- Energy and education credits
Requirements
- individual income tax preparation (form 1040)
- tax law expertise (ty2025 rules)
- complex return preparation (schedule c, k-1s, investments, credits)
- federal tax computation and analysis
- written communication (clarity, objectivity, reproducibility)
- Must be eligible to work in United States
How long hiring takes
Across the platforms we list, people typically hear back about a hire within about 25 days of applying.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare complete federal individual returns (Form 1040) from scratch under TY2025 rules, working through the worksheets, phase-outs, limitations, and carryovers by hand.
- Write clear, concise preparer notes explaining how each figure on the return was derived, so that every number can be traced and reproduced.
- Build realistic, self-contained tax scenarios involving complex returns, including self-employment, partnership and S-corporation K-1s, investments, and credits, specifying facts, dates, filing status, and expected results.
- Review and evaluate AI-generated returns and computations for accuracy and completeness, flagging errors by severity (critical, secondary, minor).
Why this role
This Tax Preparer, Individual Income Tax (Form 1040), TY2025 (EA/CPA) role pays $30-60/hr and is fully remote, so you can do Accounting work for an AI lab from home.
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What does the micro1 application process look like?
You start with a video interview with Zara, micro1's AI interviewer. Treat it like a video call: good light, clear sound and spoken answers to technical questions. A person reviews the recording, and some roles add a short skills test.
What does task-based AI training work look like?
Short, hands-on tasks such as recording videos, sorting images, rating AI answers or checking data. Most take 5 to 60 minutes each.
Can I choose my own hours?
Usually, yes. You log in when you want, pick up a task, finish it and submit it, with no meetings. Other people work from the same pool of tasks, so some days there may be no work until more is added.
What does Accounting work look like for a Tax Preparer, Individual Income Tax (Form 1040), TY2025 (EA/CPA)?
You check AI answers to Accounting questions, correct their errors and write expert reasoning. As a Tax Preparer, Individual Income Tax (Form 1040), TY2025 (EA/CPA), you're hired for that judgment, so hands-on Accounting experience matters.
What specific skills does this listing call for?
individual income tax preparation (form 1040), tax law expertise (ty2025 rules), complex return preparation (schedule c, k-1s, investments, credits), and federal tax computation and analysis are named directly in the listing. If you don't have hands-on experience with these, expect the screening to test for them.
What does the 'openings' count on this listing mean?
It's how many people micro1 still wants to hire for this role: 30 when we last checked. A high number means more places to fill. The screening stays the same.
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