The Income Tax School (ITS) is the national standard for tax preparation training and provides e-learning to tax, accounting and financial services professionals. ITS also publishes student textbooks and instructor guides for classroom instruction by firms that provide in-house tax preparation training, as well as colleges and career schools. ITS is certified as a private career school by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). The School currently offers more than 40 online income tax preparation training programs nationwide, ranging from 3-hour Continuing Professional Education (CPE) seminars to 30-80 hour courses, as well as the prestigious 180-hour ITS Chartered Tax Professional-CTP ® certificate program. The Income Tax School also offers a Career Center, an Internship program, Retreats for tax business owners and Tax Practice Management manuals to help people get into the tax preparation industry and assist those who are already in the tax business. ITS was originally developed in 1989 to meet the tax training needs of Peoples Income Tax, Inc. a tax preparation firm with multiple offices located in Richmond, Virginia. Charles McCabe, President and CEO of Peoples Income Tax, knew from past experience that it’s difficult to find qualified tax preparers on a seasonal basis. After working as Regional Director for a leading national firm for nearly 20 years, he knew training tax preparers in-house or “growing your own tax preparers” was the best solution. Starting in 1993 we made our tax school materials available to individuals as a way to learn taxes and to businesses as a way to train qualified tax preparers in-house. In 2001, ITS launched its online tax school and now teaches tax education to students nationwide and beyond. Many students are beginners who are learning taxes for the first time. However, we also have EAs, CPAs and CFPs that take our courses for Continuing Professional Education.