For a lot of businesses, tax season is a time when they reach out to third parties to help them meet looming deadlines, and keep clients happy. Outsourcing is a highly effective way to ensure that your quality standards never drop, even when the intensity of the work has increased significantly, and in-house employees are pushed to their limits.

If your accounting firm desperately wants to maintain customer satisfaction throughout tax season, but can’t afford to take on a temporary in-house workforce, outsourcing tax preparation is a viable solution. But it’s important also, not to leave this to the last minute.

Being able to establish a good working relationship with your chosen outsourcing provider is imperative to a stressless tax season, and finding a company you feel comfortable working with, well in advance, is highly recommended.

Here’s what you can gain by engaging with an outsourced tax preparation firm, before tax season arrives:

Less time and money spent on hiring

Seasonal staff may be useful, but they certainly don’t come cheap. Advertising costs, interviews, overheads, training, and salaries (plus benefits and insurance) all take up time and money that the majority of smaller accounting firms simply don’t have to spare.

By choosing to outsource some of your routine tax tasks, you can spend a lot less (since you only pay for the work they do for you, not for their time), and save a lot more time than if you were to hire seasonal workers to alleviate the strain.

Reduced employee turnover

There’s no doubt that tax season can be an incredibly profitable time of year for tax professionals, but it can also be a time of intense stress, with many employees suffering from burnout. Unfortunately, when an employee becomes so stressed and overworked that they can’t function properly, mistakes begin to creep in, deadlines may be missed, and clients certainly won’t be satisfied. They may even hand in their notice or start looking for work elsewhere, all of which can add to a firm’s stress levels during tax season.

Outsourcing can help your in-house employees feel less burdened, and more able to cope with their work, all year round.

An increase in revenue

Most stressed out and overworked tax professionals wouldn’t even dream of taking on new clients at such a busy time of the year, but with the extra help an outsourced tax services provider can offer them, they may well be able to drum up some new, much needed trade.  

Sustainable quality of work

Clients expect first rate services from you during tax season (as they do all year round), and when you’re not stressed out, have the time to focus on them and their needs, and aren’t worrying about blowing your budget on seasonal employees, you can give them exactly that.

Outsourcing to professional tax preparers gives you access to their expertise, and their knowledge about changing tax laws and regulations, which in turn, enables you to give your valued clients a consistent, possibly even enhanced, level of service.

Finally, outsourcing tax preparation services gives your in-house tax professionals the opportunity to deal with other non-core work activities, meaning that your clients don’t lose you to the demands of tax season, and can still expect you to fulfil their requirements, whatever the time of year. 

With so many advantages to be gained, don’t let tax season destroy you, outsource instead.