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 If your credential cannot be verified, the seat is withdrawn and the payment is refunded in full.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.