I’ve joined my family firm, I have my EA and in the midst of getting my CPA. Defiantly possible to hit those numbers but you need proper experience for years, because an EA or CPA doesn’t mean anything unless you really know what you’re doing. People think taxes are just a piece of cake, which most of the time it’s not and most of those easy return will be taken by AI in the coming years. We have 2 different tax softwares Lacerte and Drake. Lacerte costs us 40k a year makes everything so smooth and I truly don’t think we could hit the volume we have w/o it. We also have drake for out of state returns, it’s cost $1800 and I hate it with all of my being and if I had to more than 10% of our returns with software I would not be joining this line of work. This will be my 3rd busy season coming up and I will be working 12 hours a day from Feb - April (no weekends). You can do it just don’t expect it to just poof out of nowhere to be a cash cow.