Tax Preparer, Individual Income Tax (Form 1040), TY2025 (EA/CPA)

Pay: $50 - $75/hour

Required Skills
individual income tax preparation (form 1040)
tax law expertise (ty2025 rules)
complex return preparation (schedule c, k-1s, investments, credits)
federal tax computation and analysis
written communication (clarity, objectivity, reproducibility)
About micro1
micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Tax Preparer, Individual Income Tax (Form 1040), TY2025 (EA/CPA)

Role Type: Contractor

Location: US, Remote

micro1 is engaging Enrolled Agents and CPAs who actively prepare individual returns to participate in a project supporting a customer. In this role, you’ll apply your hands-on preparation expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required. Your domain knowledge is what matters.

Scope of Work

Prepare complete federal individual returns (Form 1040) from scratch under TY2025 rules, working through the worksheets, phase-outs, limitations, and carryovers by hand.
Write clear, concise preparer notes explaining how each figure on the return was derived, so that every number can be traced and reproduced.
Build realistic, self-contained tax scenarios involving complex returns, including self-employment, partnership and S-corporation K-1s, investments, and credits, specifying facts, dates, filing status, and expected results.
Review and evaluate AI-generated returns and computations for accuracy and completeness, flagging errors by severity (critical, secondary, minor).
Identify ambiguities, exceptions, and conflicts in the law or IRS guidance, and document them in structured written feedback within the digital review platform.
Experts and Adjudicators: strengthen and audit scenarios and reviews, and resolve disputed outcomes (see levels below).

Required Qualifications (all levels)

Active EA or CPA who currently prepares individual (1040) returns.
3+ tax seasons on complex returns (Schedule C, K-1s, investments, credits), not mainly W-2 returns.
Fluency in TY2025 rules.
Ability to compute a full return by hand (worksheets, phase-outs, carryovers) and explain each number in clear written notes.
Strong written communication, with an emphasis on clarity, objectivity, and reproducibility.

Levels

Contributor:
Meets the required qualifications above.
Expert:
5+ tax seasons. Able to audit and strengthen scenarios, making a task harder without making it vague. Trainer, reviewer, or QC background preferred. A careful, independent preparer who builds the return from scratch.
Adjudicator:
10+ years with review or sign-off responsibility. IRS exam, representation, or QC partner background preferred.

Preferred Experience (specialty areas)

Foreign tax credit and K-1 reporting
Small business: Schedule C, Section 179, QBI deduction
Investments and capital gains
Energy and education credits
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