Tax Senior

A tax senior in San Francisco can go 4 years without seeing a 5471. A tax senior in Pasadena sees one in his first fortnight, because half the client base has a parent company or a shareholder somewhere else.

That's the seat. $85k to $104k, hybrid, and the work is the cross border end of private client and owner managed business tax. Foreign shareholders, money moving between here and Taipei or Seoul, and the ordinary 1040s and 1120

Ss underneath it all that pay the bills. You'd prepare and you'd start reviewing.

What it does to you in 2 years is the real argument for it. Seniors who have done this work are hard to replace and they know it. Seniors who have spent 4 years on domestic partnerships are not.

The honest part: you'll be learning forms you haven't met, on a deadline, and nobody is going to sit with you for a fortnight first. If you like knowing the answer before you start, this will annoy you.

• $85k to $104k, hybrid, in Pasadena
• Real international work at senior level, not held back for the manager
• Owner managed clients, so you talk to the person whose money it is
• A path to reviewing rather than preparing forever
• The catch: the international side is learn as you go

• 1040s and 1120
  
  Ss for owners and their companies
• The international forms that come with foreign shareholders and foreign accounts
• Reviewing staff work as you get further in
• Sitting on the calls where the client asks what happens if he moves money

• CPA, or parts passed and finishing
• 3 years or more in a CPA firm on tax
• Some exposure to a return with a foreign element, even if you only helped