🧾 2027 Filing Season launch pricing · 91% off · 7-day guarantee
Taxes From Home

Turn “Taxes Scare Me” Into Doing Tax Returns From Home

7 practice workbooks that teach tax prep the way you actually learn it: a one-page map, a real return worked line by line, then exercises with full solutions. 300+ exercises, 60 practice returns and 100 maps, so you can prepare 1040s for families, gig workers and retirees this tax season for a little extra income from home.

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300+
Exercises
60
Practice returns
100
Maps
7
Workbooks
Average fee for a basic 1040≈ $236per return
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“After the first two workbooks I did my neighbor’s return, and her refund matched to the dollar.”

Jessica M. · Stay-at-Home Mom, Columbus, OH
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“The Social Security chapter was the one that clicked for me at 62.”

Denise R. · Retired Bank Teller, Tampa, FL
Do the math

Every Household Has to File. Most People Would Rather Pay Someone to Do It.

The average fee for a basic 1040 is around $236, and a Schedule C for someone self-employed adds about $125 more. Most of that work lands between February and April. At the federal level, preparing returns for pay takes a PTIN from the IRS ($18.75 a year), and all of it fits on a laptop at your kitchen table.

$236
Average fee for a basic 1040
$26.40
Median hourly pay, tax preparers (BLS)
64%
Of preparers’ fees come in February to April
PTIN applications and renewals for the 2027 filing season are open, and the fee is $18.75.
Per IRS news release IR-2026-130, November 2026

Sources: NATP 2025 Fee Study; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, Tax Preparers (May 2025); IRS IR-2026-130. Fees are national averages and vary by area, client and return.

Sound familiar?

You’ve Read the Rules. Then Someone Handed You a Real W-2 and Three 1099s.

None of this is a math problem. It’s a practice problem, and this kit is built to fix it.

Perfect timing

January to April Is When Everyone Looks for Someone to Do Their Taxes

W-2s and 1099s land in mailboxes, refunds are waiting, and the people who don’t want to fight the forms start asking around. The ones who practice now are ready when the questions start.

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Enough evenings to work through the first workbooks, and be the person who says “I can help with that” when someone asks.

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The method

Every Topic in 3 Steps

That’s how the rules turn into a return you can actually prepare, chapter after chapter.

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1. See it on one page

Every chapter opens with a visual map and the rule on a single page. No walls of IRS text, just what you need to know before you start.

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2. Watch a real return done

A real kind of household, a family with two kids, a rideshare driver, a retired couple, worked line by line with real numbers and the “why” behind every line.

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3. Practice and check

Prepare the return on your own, then compare with the full solution. Every refund and every balance due checks out, so you always know if you got it right.

BeforeWith the kit
✕ Long lectures and no real returns to practice on✓ A map and the rule on one page, then straight to a return
✕ Exercises with no answers: you never know if you’re right✓ Every exercise has its full solution, line by line
✕ Made-up examples that look nothing like a real client✓ 60 practice returns: families, gig workers, retirees, side businesses
✕ Last year’s numbers and rules you can’t trace✓ 2026 tax-year figures with the IRS publication each one comes from
What you’ll be able to do

The Returns People Pay Someone For

Each one is worked out inside, with a practice return and its full solution. These are the returns people bring you every season.

A W-2 family with two kidsAverage with credits: about $236–$295
A rideshare driver’s Schedule C1040 + Schedule C: about $360 on average
A retired couple with Social SecurityBasic 1040: about $236 on average
A hairstylist with 1099 income1040 + Schedule C: about $360 on average
A server with tips and overtimeBasic 1040: about $236 on average
A college student’s first returnSimple returns: often $150–$236

Average fees from the NATP 2025 Fee Study. Not a promise of what you will charge or earn. Fees depend on your area, your clients and the return.

A woman working through a tax workbook at her kitchen table with a cup of coffeeFor you
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A skill nobody can take away

Your own return, your parents’ return, your spouse’s side business. You finally understand where every number on the 1040 comes from, and why.

A woman going over a finished tax return with a client at her dining tableFor extra income
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Work people pay for

Returns for the families, gig workers and retirees you already know, from your kitchen table, January to April. Start with one person who already trusts you, and see where it goes.

Look inside

Real Pages, Not Promises

This is what the pages look like: a one-page map, a return worked line by line, a Schedule C and a practice set with its answer key. Every refund and balance due ties out to the dollar.

A one-page map from the tax prep workbook A family's return worked line by line A Schedule C practice page A practice set with its answer key
What people are saying

From the Kitchen Table to Their First Season

★★★★★“I’d filed my own taxes for twenty years and never knew why the refund came out the way it did. After the first two workbooks I did my neighbor’s return, two kids and a W-2, and checked it line by line against the worked example. Her refund matched to the dollar.”
Jessica M.
Jessica M.Stay-at-Home Mom, Columbus, OH
★★★★★“At 62 I figured tax prep was for younger people with software skills. The Social Security chapter was the one that clicked. This spring I prepared returns for my sister and two couples from church, all retirees, sitting at my dining table with the Atlas pinned up on the wall.”
Denise R.
Denise R.Retired Bank Teller, Tampa, FL
★★★★★“My brother drives for Uber and had never claimed a single mile. I worked the rideshare Schedule C in Workbook 4 over a weekend, then sat down with his phone log. Seeing the self-employment tax laid out step by step finally made it make sense to both of us.”
Marisol G.
Marisol G.School Office Assistant, San Antonio, TX
★★★★★“The practice tests were what I needed. I kept second-guessing myself until I scored well on all three. I got my PTIN in December with the step-by-step in the First Client Kit, and by March I’d done eleven returns for families I already knew.”
Angela T.
Angela T.Church Office Manager, Raleigh, NC

Testimonials are illustrative. Results vary.

2027 Filing Season launch pricing

The Tax Prep Practice Kit™

The Tax Prep Practice Kit book
$297$27
One-time payment. Instant access.
  • Workbook 1 · The 1040 From Zero: filing status, dependents, the standard deduction and how the tax is figured, line by line
  • Workbook 2 · W-2s, 1099s & Every Kind of Income: wages, interest, dividends, gig income, retirement and Social Security
  • Workbook 3 · Deductions & Credits Families Ask About: itemizing, the Child Tax Credit, the EITC, education and child care credits
  • Workbook 4 · Schedule C for the Self-Employed: rideshare, cleaning, hair and side businesses, mileage, home office and self-employment tax
  • Workbook 5 · What’s New for 2026: the new deductions for tips, overtime, seniors and car loan interest, and the higher SALT cap
  • Workbook 6 · Fixes, Extensions & IRS Letters: amended returns, extensions, estimated payments and how to read a notice calmly
  • 🎁 Workbook 7 · Your Tax Season Workflow: the intake interview, the document checklist, due diligence and the review before you file

🎁 5 bonuses, FREE today

$123 value
  • ✓ The 100-Map Atlas · $27
  • ✓ Practice Tests · $19
  • ✓ The Tax Calculators · $29
  • ✓ The First Client Kit · $29
  • ✓ The 2027 Filing Season Calendar · $19
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Try it for 7 days. Risk-free.

Open the kit, work through the first return and check your answers. If it isn’t for you, send one email within 7 days and we’ll refund you in full. No forms, no hard feelings.

From the first return

They practiced at the kitchen table. Then the messages started.

They were exactly where you are, sure taxes were “too complicated” for them.

9:41●●● ᯤ ▮
Jenny ›
Today 7:12 PM
ok you’re not going to believe this
what happened 😂
my neighbor brought me her W-2, two kids, and a 1099 from her Etsy shop
I sat down with the workbook open next to me and the refund matched to the dollar
so are you doing her taxes now??
hers AND her mom’s 🙈
Delivered
iMessage
9:41●●● ᯤ ▮
Maria ›
Saturday 1:05 PM
guess who I talked to at my son’s soccer game
the Uber dad?
YES. he’s never claimed his mileage. not once
I showed him how the Schedule C works and he just said “can you do mine this year”
and his brother drives DoorDash 😅
Delivered
iMessage
9:41●●● ᯤ ▮
Karen ›
Monday 9:30 AM
Hi Karen! it’s Linda from church
you explained our return better than anyone in 40 years of filing 😊
can you do my sister’s too? she just started Social Security
of course! have her bring her SSA-1099 and last year’s return 😊
you’re a lifesaver
Delivered
iMessage

Illustrative conversations based on what new tax preparers share online. Individual results vary.

After you join

Your First 7 Days, Step by Step

Day 1–2

The 1040, finally clear

Open Workbook 1. Read the map, follow the family-of-four return, then do the first exercises and check every answer. By the end, you know where every number on the 1040 comes from.

Day 3–4

Your first full return

Workbook 2 hands you a W-2, a 1099-INT and a 1099-NEC. You build the return line by line and compare it with the solution until the refund matches to the dollar.

Day 5–6

A gig worker’s Schedule C

Work the rideshare driver’s year: income, mileage, expenses and self-employment tax. Most chapters take an evening, and your first one is allowed to take longer.

Day 7

Say it out loud

Open the First Client Kit: how to get your PTIN, what to charge and the message for the people who already know you. Then pick the next workbook.

That’s it. One week, your first returns done, and the words “I can do your taxes” don’t scare you anymore.

What you’ll get

The Complete Kit

From your first 1040 to your first client at the kitchen table, and a little extra income every tax season.

Workbooks 1–3

The Everyday Return

The 1040 · W-2s & 1099s · deductions & credits

Filing status and dependents, every kind of income, itemizing or not, the Child Tax Credit, the EITC and education credits. The return most families bring you every year.

Workbooks 4–6

Self-Employed, New Rules & Fixes

Schedule C · 2026 changes · amended returns · IRS letters

Gig workers and side businesses with mileage and self-employment tax, the new 2026 deductions, amended returns, extensions and IRS notices. Every case solved with real numbers.

🎁 Workbook 7

Your Tax Season Workflow

Intake · document checklist · due diligence · review

How to run the first meeting, the documents to ask for, the due diligence questions for credits, and the review that catches mistakes before you file.

Bonus 1 + 2

The 100-Map Atlas + Practice Tests

Print-ready maps · 75 questions · 3 full returns

The whole kit in 100 one-page maps to print and pin above your desk. Then three timed tests with answer keys, so you know you’re ready before your first client.

Bonus 3

The Tax Calculators

Tax brackets · self-employment tax · credits · refund or owe

Type in the numbers and the spreadsheet does the math: the tax from the brackets, self-employment tax, the main credits and the refund or balance due. Check your work in seconds.

Bonus 4 + 5

The First Client Kit + 2027 Filing Season Calendar

PTIN step by step · pricing · intake organizer · 25 templates · key dates

How to get your PTIN, what to charge per return, the client organizer, the engagement letter and 25 templates in Word. Plus every date that matters, month by month, for 2027.

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One payment, everything included.

Questions Before You Start

Do I need any tax or accounting background?

No. Workbook 1 starts from zero: what a filing status is, who counts as a dependent and how the tax is figured. Each chapter opens with a one-page map, then a worked return, then exercises with full solutions.

I’m not a numbers person. Is this for me?

Tax prep is mostly knowing which number goes on which line, then adding and subtracting. If you can follow a recipe, you can do this. The hard part is knowing where things go, and that’s what the worked returns and solutions show you.

Do I need a license to prepare tax returns?

There’s no federal license. To prepare returns for pay you need a PTIN from the IRS ($18.75 for 2027, renewed every year), and a few states (California, Oregon, New York, Maryland and Connecticut) add their own registration or exam. The First Client Kit walks you through the PTIN step by step.

Is it up to date?

Yes. Everything uses 2026 tax-year figures for the 2027 filing season, including the new deductions for tips, overtime, seniors and car loan interest, and each workbook lists the IRS publication every number comes from.

Do I need tax software?

No. You learn the return itself, on paper and in the calculators, so it works with whatever software you use later. Software changes every year; the 1040 logic doesn’t.

Aren’t there free videos online?

There are, and that’s where the evenings go. Ten minutes on one topic, no real return and no answers to check. Here every topic goes map, worked return, practice, solution, in order.

Is this the same as a bookkeeping course?

No. This kit is about tax season: preparing individual returns and the Schedule C for people who work for themselves, from January to April. It doesn’t teach monthly bookkeeping.

How do I find my first client?

The First Client Kit walks you through it: who to talk to first (people who already know you), what to offer, how to price a return and the exact message to send. Most people start with family, friends and neighbors.

What can I actually earn?

We can’t promise any amount. It depends on your hours, your prices and your clients. The First Client Kit shows how to price a return, and the fees on this page are published averages of what preparers charge, not promises. Results are not guaranteed.

What format is it in?

PDF workbooks you can read on your phone, tablet or computer or print at home, Excel calculators and Word templates. Nothing is shipped.

How do I get it?

Right after you pay, you get an email to open your library. Everything is there, ready to read, download and print.

How long do I have access?

For life. Read it at your own pace and come back to any workbook whenever a client brings you something new.

Is it a video course?

No. It’s a set of practice workbooks, so you learn by doing: you read the map, follow the worked return and do the exercises with the solution right there.

Is this tax or legal advice?

No. It’s educational material that teaches how individual returns are prepared. For a specific tax or legal question, talk to a CPA, an enrolled agent or an attorney.

Is it safe to buy online?

Yes. Checkout is secure, access arrives by email the moment you pay, and you’re covered for 7 days.

And if it’s not for me?

Your purchase is covered for 7 days. Open the kit, work through a chapter, and if it isn’t for you, send us one email and we’ll refund you in full.

$297$27
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