SACRAMENTO – Did you know tax preparers are not allowed to take a percentage of your tax refund as compensation? Or that an advertisement promising guaranteed tax refunds is a red flag for fraud?“How can anyone know you’re getting a refund until after they’ve looked at your paperwork? It’s simple. They can’t,” Lester Crawford, chair of the California Tax Education Council, a state-mandated nonprofit organization that manages the registration of more than 40,000 tax preparers, said. “The key to staying out of trouble with the IRS and getting the so-called ‘biggest refund’ is all about how educated tax preparers are on current tax laws.”It is one of the reasons why California requires tax preparers to be licensed or registered. State law requires anyone who prep
