I love this sort of thing: a professional services business which does exactly one thing, very very well, by software-ing the heck out of it. https://collegetaxrefunds.com/
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What's the problem? There's a particular tax credit that students have available, which is worth ~$1.5k, which affects too small of a percentage of the client base for H&R Block et al to actually design business processes that apply for it successfully. Thus this company.
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"You got your taxes done. They're probably wrong and cost you $1.5k extra. Upload them here; we'll tell you if they're fixable. If yes, either pay $300 now or $400 when you get your refund check."
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Relative to almost all tax-adjacent businesses they've got one *fascinating* advantage: they are intentionally set up to file *corrected* returns, not original returns. That's one of the most brilliant hacks I've ever heard of.
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What prevents them from becoming an accessory to correcting some unwitting person's returns?
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Presumably they have approximately the same level of KYC as every other tax prep firm, per IRS guidance.
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