Private AI for Tax Professionals: Use AI on Client Files Without Sending Them to the Cloud: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide for CPAs, EAs, and Tax Preparers on Windows and Mac - Softcover

Slovenec, Filip

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798177251189

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Can you paste a client's IRS notice into ChatGPT?

Tax educators now argue that doing so discloses tax return information to a third party under section 7216. The IRS has issued no guidance either way, and clients are starting to ask how their information is handled.

Private AI for Tax Professionals shows you another way: run an AI assistant on the computer already on your desk, so client files stay in your office. No coding, no subscription, one afternoon.

Inside

• What §7216, the FTC Safeguards Rule and Circular 230 actually say, with every rule quoted and cited to its source
• A ten-minute check of whether your current PC can run it, and what to buy if it can't
• Step-by-step setup on Windows 11 and Mac, using free tools, with every privacy setting named so you can find it after an update
• The airplane-mode test: proof your setup works with the internet switched off, plus nine more lockdown checks
• One client, one workspace: loading documents safely and deleting them properly
• Twelve tax-office jobs a local model does well, each with a copy-paste prompt and exactly what to check in the draft
• The checking tax: the five ways local AI goes wrong, and a two-minute routine that catches them
• Templates: a one-page AI policy, a WISP addendum, an incident note, and a script for when a client asks "Do you use AI?"

Written for solo practitioners and small firms without an IT department. It is not legal advice. It shows its sources so you and your counsel can check every rule yourselves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798177251189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 95