Exhibit A
Tax Preparers work in Laredo
Laredo sits on the Rio Grande, and a large share of the tax work here involves filers with ties on both sides of the border, ITIN applications and returns that need a preparer who knows the cross border situation. The trade in the city runs from national chains on the commercial corridors to small offices and owner operators working out of storefronts and home offices, and the owner operators are the ones most likely to be found through a search rather than a sign. Demand clusters in the weeks before the April filing deadline and again around the October extension date, and Spanish language searches sit alongside English ones for the same services. We do not publish a count of firms in Laredo or a dollar figure for paid search here, because we have not measured those numbers for this city.
