For tax practices · any city, any size

Take your city’s seat

Three short steps, then the card. Setup is the easy part.

The seat is yours the moment the card clears: “Your [City] edition, from” your practice on every page, your name at the foot of every article, the readers’ questions to you. Photo, page and emails come after, on your own page, one step at a time. How it works · Read the edition

$1,000The seat, 2026 season, charter price. Paid once by credit card. Nothing else is ever billed.

One per cityAny size city. First refusal on your city for 2027.

TonightYour name is on every page of your city’s edition the moment the card clears.

1Your practice — as it should read on every page

“Your [City] edition, from your practice” is what readers see at the top of every page.

Your practice, as it should read on the edition State The seat you are taking — any city, any sizeA seat is a city of any size — Castle Rock, Sterling, Cortez — one practice per city. If yours isn’t in the list, choose the first option and type it; it’s yours on this page. Your office townShown after the practice name: “Buckeye Tax, Dublin.”

2You — the name at the foot of every article

Seats are held by enrolled agents and CPAs in good standing. We verify the credential against the IRS directory or the state board; the email is where your sign-in link and your readers’ questions go.

Your name Credential Enrollment number (EA) or CPA license number and stateWe verify it against the IRS directory or the state board. Seats are held by enrolled agents and CPAs in good standing. Phone, for the foot of every article EmailYour sign-in link and readers’ questions go here. Website (optional)

If a practice that holds a seat told you about this (optional)So the editor can thank them. If they sent you their link, this is already handled.

3Topics you’d like covered — optional, no effect on the price

Up to three things about California or federal income tax that you know from your years across the desk and would like to see covered well: a topic each, and a sentence if you like. Write any of them yourself later, for your page, under your name, or leave them with the editor as suggestions. Welcome, never required; blank is fine.

Topic 1 A sentence on it (optional)

Topic 2 A sentence on it (optional)

Topic 3 A sentence on it (optional)

Anything you want to say (optional)

The terms, in full

The terms. A seat is a city, of any size: one enrolled agent or CPA per city for the 2026 season, with first refusal for 2027 at whatever the 2027 price is. Readers in your city, and readers nearby whose own city has no seat holder yet, see your practice on every page. The seat is yours when the card payment clears: $1,000, the 2026 charter price, paid once. Nothing else is billed: no monthly fee, no per-lead fee, nothing for your clients or your referrers to pay.

Credential. Seats are held by enrolled agents and CPAs in good standing. If your credential cannot be verified, the seat is withdrawn and the payment is refunded in full.

The review. You read your state’s pages, and the page on your city’s income tax where the city has one, and send corrections, or “none,” by December 15; your name then goes on each state article as a reviewer. You may not edit the articles, add promotional text to the pages, or present the articles as your own.

Your topics and articles. Welcome, never required, and no effect on the price. Write any topic yourself for your page, 120 to 1,000 words, no marketing in the body, no deadline; the editor reads each one and decides what runs, under your byline. Or leave topics with the editor as suggestions. Articles are your own work; by submitting one you give Need to Know Tax a non-exclusive right to publish and edit it with your byline, and you keep the copyright.

Know a colleague in another city? One practice per city, and the good ones go first. Your link, needtoknowtax.com/signup.php?from=your-city, tells the form who sent them so the editor can thank you.

Need to Know Tax is published by Charles Trautman, LLC, doing business as Need to Know Tax, Lone Tree, Colorado; Charles Trautman, EA, editor. Questions: editor@needtoknowtax.com.

I have read the terms, I am the EA or CPA named above, and I am taking the seat named above for the 2026 season.

The card is handled by Stripe on its own secure page; this site never sees the number. You will have a receipt from Stripe and an email from the editor within a minute of paying, with the link to your own page for the photo, your words and the emails.