$55-$145/hr tax and advisory work, on your schedule
You review AI tax positions, returns, and planning the way you'd review work before signing it, flagging the position that won't survive an audit. A few hours a week, remote, paid hourly.
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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.
Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.
Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a tax CPA's eye on an aggressive deduction spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.
That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.
We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.
If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.
Tax questions
Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.
Pass-through taxation is where models make the most errors, so your sub-specialty is directly valuable. You'd review model explanations of basis calculations, at-risk limitations, and Section 704(b) allocations, and flag reasoning that is wrong or misleading to a practitioner.
An inactive or retired CPA license is fine for most tax work. The credential establishes your expertise; it does not authorize you to practice on a client's behalf. If an opportunity requires active licensure, that will be stated before you apply.
No. You evaluate and annotate AI content, not advise a real taxpayer or sign a return. You act as a subject-matter reviewer, not a preparer, so Circular 230 preparer obligations and independence rules do not attach to this work.
Mostly AI explanations of tax concepts, model step-by-step calculations like QBID phase-out under Section 199A or AMT adjustments, and reasoning traces on hypothetical fact patterns. You would not review real client returns or live preparatory work.
Yes. An EA is a recognized federal tax credential that demonstrates the same core competency, and EAs focused on representation or IRS procedure are especially useful for those tasks. You apply through the same process as a CPA and get matched to fitting opportunities.
Why your expertise matters
Today's tax AI swaps the Section 199A W-2 wage limit for the basis alternative, misreads the passive loss rules under Section 469, and cites treaty provisions that don't exist. Catching that takes a CPA, not a search index. Your corrections teach these tools the difference between quoting the code and holding up under audit.
How pay works
Top of the $55-$145/hr band goes to active CPAs and EAs with depth in international tax, Section 704(b) allocations, or M&A cost analysis who write precise feedback, not just right or wrong. All work is remote and asynchronous, a few hours a week, paid per verified task around busy season.
What the work looks like
A sample of the tax and advisory work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.
- Review a model's Schedule K-1 allocation memo and flag any misapplication of the substantial economic effect rules under Reg 1.704-1.
- Evaluate a model's QBI deduction explanation and correct how it handles specified service businesses across income thresholds.
- Build a worked Section 1031 like-kind exchange, including boot recognition and adjusted basis, the way you'd walk a client through it.
- Assess whether an AI response to a hypothetical CP2000 notice applies the right burden-of-proof and penalty abatement provisions.
- Annotate a model's multi-state nexus analysis, noting where it conflates economic nexus thresholds with physical presence standards.
- Write a reference solution for a TCJA net operating loss carryforward, including the 80% limitation and the elimination of carrybacks.
Specialties we match
Tax projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- IRC code section analysis
- Federal individual and business returns
- Partnership and S-corp taxation
- International tax (GILTI, FDII, BEAT)
- State and local tax (SALT)
- Tax research (RIA Checkpoint, Bloomberg Tax)
- IRS audit representation
- Estate and gift tax planning
- Tax-exempt organizations (Form 990)
- Depreciation and cost segregation
- Transfer pricing
- QuickBooks and tax software review (ProConnect, Lacerte, UltraTax)
