Since its inception the Tax Preparation business has been dominated by professional full time IRS authorized E-File Professionals.  The new administrations $154 billion dollar stimulus addition might be changing that landscape.  "Anytime you pour billions of dollars of Government Funding into specific programs that are administered by one industry, that industry is going to attract a lot of outside special interest for all the wrong reasons".  Not only is the industry attracting a lot of outside special interest from non profit community organizations these same groups are launching their entry into the industry leading propaganda attacks on the private sector.  The services provided by the nations 200,000 plus authorized E-File professionals has been the back bone behind the distribution of 100's of billions of dollars in tax credits for low and middle income families in every area of the country for the last 20 plus years.  It's one of the most frequented industrys in the nation with a consumer loyalty rate far beyond that of most any other professional service. 

Now, outside special interest groups everywhere are looking to get their share of the money.  Leading sabotaging propaganda crusades against the business owners who spent years establishing their business and the industry, these special interest groups looking to exploit the tax preparation business are willing to mislead public officials with half truths and outright lies in order to gain a foot hold over the industry while exploiting the Grant programs now available to them.  One group in Alabama went so far as to promote false findings from their own fraudulent investigation in an attempt to pass legislation in the state that would have given them full power and authority over the industry across the state.  NITPA was formed in Alabama to lobby against those fraudulent propaganda attempts to rule the industry and exploit the new Grant programs.  This Alabama group wanted to pass a licensing board that would charge fees to the private tax offices and allow the special interest group to access those fees in order to gain matching money and exploit the new federal Grant program in Alabama.  On May 14th the Alabama Legislature agreed with NITPA and refused to allow the special interest group to pass their own hand written Legislative Agenda. As noted in a recent Business Week article NITPA was the only organization lobbying to protect the industry and it's base of small business owner operators throughout the state.