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title: Biggest Problems With Professional Tax Services
description: "Lots of issues can arise with annual services, no matter how great your accountant is. Let's discuss these common issues with annual tax accountants: poor communication, no year-round tax strategy, and limited service."
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# [Biggest Problems With Professional Tax Services](https://blog.csiaccounting.com/biggest-problems-professional-tax-services)

 Written by [Bryan Cremeen](https://blog.csiaccounting.com/author/bryan-cremeen) | Jan 7, 2024 10:30:00 PM

While shopping around for a business tax service, you need to know what to watch out for. There are a lot of issues that can arise with annual services – no matter how great your accountant is.

At CSI Accounting & Payroll, we’ve worked with small business accounting *year-round* for over 50 years. We’ve heard a lot about these common issues with accountants who only meet with their clients annually:

- **Poor communication**
- **Lack of year-round tax strategy**
- **Limited service**

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## **Poor Communication**

This is the only point that can vary by accountant, although you still get much less communication from an annual tax accountant than you would from a [monthly accountant](https://blog.csiaccounting.com/do-own-accounting-business).

With an annual tax service, you only meet with your accountant each year. That means **you don’t get business advice from them throughout the year**, and they’ll be extremely busy with the rest of their clients during tax season.

Annual tax accountants also almost always come from small accounting firms. Often, they’re single-owners or have a very small staff. They can easily be **overwhelmed with clients** and slow to communicate.

Plus, a lot of annual tax accountants deal with a lot of non-business owners. When their focus is shifted toward personal tax clients, they may **miss credits, deductions, and strategy** that business-centered accountants would not.

## **Lack of Year-Round Tax Strategy**

When you only meet with an accountant annually, there’s absolutely no chance of using a [complete tax strategy](https://blog.csiaccounting.com/tax-planning-vs-tax-reacting-how-to-save-money-by-taking-action-now) that consists of **tax planning, projections, preparation, and filing**. They just record the data of your past year, and you’ll find out what you owe in taxes right before they’re due.

If you work with a monthly accountant instead, they guide your strategic business moves throughout the year to improve your tax season. You’ll have tax planning meetings with projections to help you [know what you’ll owe in taxes several months ahead of time](https://blog.csiaccounting.com/tax-planning-vs-tax-reacting-how-to-save-money-by-taking-action-now).

## **Limited Service**

Most small business owners – even ones who do their own bookkeeping on the side – outsource their taxes. When you can face a large tax bill or criminal consequences for incorrectly prepared taxes, you want to trust a professional.

However, an annual tax service is limited to just that – a tax service. **You don’t get much bang for your buck.** 

On the other hand, when you work with a monthly accounting service, your [annual taxes are included](https://blog.csiaccounting.com/monthly-accounting-separate-annual) – no need for an annual accountant! 

There are other services included in monthly accounting as well, such as unlimited one-off questions and monthly financial statements and account reconciliations. It’s a bookkeeper, tax accountant, and consultant all under one roof. It can cost more, but it also offers more.

## **Avoid Tax Service Problems**

Now that you know about the issues that can happen with annual services, such as poor communication, a lack of year-round tax strategy, and limited service, are you ready to check out monthly accounting services?

If so, please consider CSI Accounting & Payroll! To see if we can be a good fit for your business, click the button below for a free consultation:

Not ready to talk? That’s okay! First, learn more about what monthly accounting costs by clicking the image below:

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