Furnish taxpayers with sufficient information and advice to ensure correct tax form completion.

“Furnish taxpayers with sufficient information and advice to ensure correct tax form completion.” is a core task performed by Tax Preparers. Among the occupation's 12 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#3 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Advise others on financial matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T3.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.009% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 32% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 2.9 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 99% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Compute taxes owed or overpaid, using adding machines or personal computers, and complete entries on forms, following tax form instructions and tax tables. · importance 4.8
• Use all appropriate adjustments, deductions, and credits to keep clients' taxes to a minimum. · importance 4.7
• Interview clients to obtain additional information on taxable income and deductible expenses and allowances. · importance 4.6
• Prepare or assist in preparing simple to complex tax returns for individuals or small businesses. · importance 4.5
• Review financial records, such as income statements and documentation of expenditures to determine forms needed to prepare tax returns. · importance 4.5
• Check data input or verify totals on forms prepared by others to detect errors in arithmetic, data entry, or procedures. · importance 4.4
• Explain federal and state tax laws to individuals and companies. · importance 4.2
• Answer questions and provide future tax planning to clients. · importance 4.2
• Consult tax law handbooks or bulletins to determine procedures for preparation of atypical returns. · importance 4.2
• Calculate form preparation fees according to return complexity and processing time required. · importance 4.0
• Schedule appointments with clients. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Tax Preparers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Furnish taxpayers with sufficient information and advice to ensure correct tax form completion.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-7363}
}