The Enrolled Agent who signs and defends the cannabis work you build.
280EA is a licensed Enrolled Agent, admitted to practice before the IRS, working alongside your practice to sign and defend §280E / 471(c) positions under credential. The client relationship stays yours.
Signing and defending: the licensed lane.
I sign returns and defend positions. The return gets signed under my Enrolled Agent credential, aggressive positions are disclosed on Form 8275-R, and my name goes on the Form 2848 when a notice lands. As the back-office Enrolled Agent for six tax resolution firms, I prepared 1,251 returns over 18 months.
You build the work. Signing it and defending it is the part you’d rather hand to someone licensed to carry it.
Cannabis-focused CFOs and accounting firms build the §280E and 471(c) work, the cost accounting and the disclosure positions, and then decide whose credential carries it on the return and defends it at exam. 280EA is that credential. 280EA is new, and there is no 280E case history yet; when results exist, they are published in numbers on the reviews page.
A license you can verify.
An Enrolled Agent is federally licensed to represent any taxpayer before the IRS. Enrollment number 00144429-EA. You can verify it yourself.
See whether your book fits.
A 30-minute partnership consult: which of your clients carry exposure, and where a licensed representative earns its keep.
Enrolled Agent admitted to practice before the IRS. General information, not legal or tax advice. Representation begins only under a signed engagement.