Choosing Your Tax Practitioner

In the State of Arizona, there are no licensing requirements to prepare tax returns. This means that anybody can simply “hang a shingle” and call themselves a tax preparer. Lawyers, Certified Public Accountants and Enrolled Agents are professionals who are licensed either by the State or the US Treasury Department.

Beware of “Hidden Tax” Created by Healthcare Cuts to State Budget

The Arizona Chamber Foundation published a study that measured the financial impact of the hidden healthcare tax. It showed Arizona employers and our state’s 3.5 million privately insured consumers pay 40 percent above cost for hospital services because public insurers—Medicare and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Arizona’s Medicaid program—significantly underpay hospitals for healthcare services.