Would you recommend CPA or Tax Attorney?
Friday, September 25th, 2009 at
4:55 pm
Would you suggest buy amoxicillin becoming a CPA or a Tax Attorney? What is the best education to pursue for each career?
Tax attorney requires a lot of education. You will need to get a J.D. and LLM in taxation. I would say CPA is not as difficult, you can get your MST in less time and money. Also, a CPA has more flexibility for career choices. If you don’t like tax, you can always do audit. If you don’t like public accounting, you can work for industry.
CPA
CPA is a whole lot cheaper and you would have similar earning potential. Start off with a BS in Accounting, get a masters degree, then go and take the CPA exam.
Depends on what you want to do, they’re are both equally difficult to achieve.
However the differences are in their specialties, a CPA can perform a multitude of accounting duties, preparing taxes is only a small portion of their jobs.
On the flip side, a Tax Attorney deals almost solely with tax-based issues. Be they estate law, IRS problems, tax questions, etc; a tax attorney must be well versed in the almost constantly changing landscape of taxes.
Both will require graduate school, and both will require passing rigorous exams, I.E. the Bar Exam.
If you’re interested in either i’d site down with a college counselor and explain to them why each field interests you and what you think you’d want to do when you were all done with school.