Exhibit A
Tax Preparers work in Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa sits in Orange County, between Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Irvine, and the tax preparation demand here follows the county's mix of small businesses, rental property owners and households with more than one income. The city's commercial base runs along Harbor Boulevard and the South Coast Metro area, where retail, restaurants and service businesses file business returns alongside personal ones. Around South Coast Plaza and the office towers nearby, a lot of the work is for owners and managers who want a preparer close to where they work. The residential side spreads through the Mesa, Eastside and Westside, where single family homes and rental units generate the schedule work that fills a preparer's calendar. Paid search around tax preparation in Orange County is competitive through the filing season, and the firms showing up are a mix of national chains with storefronts on Harbor and smaller owner operated practices that live on referrals and repeat clients. The searches are there all year, and the firms that publish about Costa Mesa specifically are the ones that get found for them.
