Taxpayers give preparers the thumbs up.A recent Harris Harris, Scotland: see Lewis and Harris. poll revealed that 59% of individual taxpayers paid someone to prepare their taxes. Ninety-six percent of the taxpayers who used a tax preparer were either very satisfied (76%) or somewhat satisfied (20%) with the service they received. Fewer than four percent of those polled were dissatisfied dis·sat·is·fied adj. Feeling or exhibiting a lack of contentment or satisfaction. dis·sat  is·fied with the service rendered by their tax preparer. The poll also showed there was a positive correlation Noun 1. positive correlation - a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 direct correlation between satisfaction with a preparer and the level of a taxpayer's income. Fifty-seven Adj. 1. fifty-seven - being seven more than fifty 57, lvii cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" percent of taxpayers with incomes below $15,000 were "very satisfied" with their tax pro whereas 84% of taxpayers with incomes over $75,000 said they were. Other findings: * Forty-four percent of those polled wanted a "completely different" tax system than the current one. * Sixty percent favored a flat tax over the current system. * Fifty-seven percent opposed replacing the current system with a national sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. . The poll was conducted during this year's tax season and included responses from over 1,000 adults nationwide. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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