Exhibit A
Tax Preparers work in Raleigh
Raleigh has a steady base of tax preparation work. National chains run offices along the retail corridors, and a large share of the market is independent preparers and small firms, many of them working out of offices in the suburbs and around the universities. Demand clusters in the weeks before the filing deadline and again around extension season. Search interest in Raleigh follows the same pattern, with people looking for preparers, bookkeeping help and advice on state returns. The searches are there every season, and the firms that show up for them are the ones with pages already published.
