Training the Enrolled Agent Workforce Our Small Businesses Depend On

Taxley is the workforce development academy for the Enrolled Agent profession – building the talent and strengthening the firms that support the small businesses and ambitious entrepreneurs who drive our economy and uphold our communities.

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of small businesses fail within five years, mostly due to financial and operational mismanagement. (U.S. SBA)

of accounting and tax firm leaders report difficulty finding qualified talent. (AICPA PCPS Trends Report)

taxpayers rely on tax professionals with little to no federal competency requirements. (GAO + National Taxpayer Advocate Reports)

We have a heart for small business owners — and a strategy for the Enrolled Agents who serve them.

Everything we do strengthens entrepreneurial readiness and the advisor–client relationship at the center of small business stability.

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Empowering the Professionals Who Drive Ambition Forward

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, yet nearly half never make it past year five. At the same time, firms across the country report persistent shortages of qualified tax and accounting talent.

The result is predictable: entrepreneurs struggle without guidance, and firms struggle without skilled professionals.

This is where we step in.

Workforce Development: People want meaningful, stable careers. Firms want capable, prepared talent. The Enrolled Agent (EA) career path delivers both.

EAs hold the highest tax credential issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury – the only federal designation that specifically recognizes expertise in tax law. Yet despite the importance of this profession, awareness remains low and national training standards are inconsistent.

Taxley changes that.

Through our workforce development programs, we prepare aspiring and active Enrolled Agents to deliver the high-quality tax, financial, and operational clarity small businesses depend on – elevating the EA profession and addressing the competency gaps repeatedly identified by the IRS and GAO.

Small Business Growth: Small businesses don’t fail from lack of effort, they fail from lack of guidance. Taxley’s workforce development model equips EAs to help entrepreneurs:

  • Understand their finances
  • Navigate tax challenges
  • Stabilize operations
  • Build sustainably

Because stronger businesses create stronger communities, and trained EAs make that possible.

Career Seekers

Start your path toward a respected, purpose-driven Enrolled Agent career – from exploration to apprenticeship.

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Employers

Partner with Taxley to cultivate trained talent, strengthen your associates, and elevate your firm’s capabilities.

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Challenging the Status Quo While Leveling the Playing Field

Taxley is raising standards and bridging opportunity gaps for aspiring professionals, forward-thinking firms, ambitious entrepreneurs, and the communities they serve.

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And the woman behind the movement.

For nearly two decades, Anisha Bailey, EA, MSEL, Taxley’s Founder and CEO, has worked inside the financial lives of families and small businesses – advocating for taxpayers, resolving IRS crises, and helping entrepreneurs regain stability during their most challenging moments.

Those years revealed a truth that reshaped her mission:

  • Small businesses lack access to trained, trustworthy guidance.
  • Professionals enter tax and business roles without structured training.
  • The CPA pipeline firms once relied on is steadily declining.
  • Communities suffer when entrepreneurs struggle.
  • Standardized Enrolled Agent training can transform the state of financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and economic mobility,

This new mission resulted in the evolution of Taxley – from a consulting firm into a workforce development academy.

Drawing from her expertise in tax law, entrepreneurship, financial behavior, and executive leadership, she created: ApprentEA™, the first Enrolled Agent registered apprenticeship program and TRIBA™ Training, the foundation of Taxley’s workforce and career development programs.

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TRIBA™ Training

The first integrated Standard for EA Workforce Development

Taxley’s signature TRIBA™ (Tax Resolution & Integrated Business Advisory) Training unites the five competencies required to serve modern small businesses effectively:

  • Tax law & IRS procedures
  • Financial stability and analysis
  • Operational clarity
  • Small business dynamics & real-world application
  • Human behavior and decision-making

This is not traditional tax training. This is experience-driven career development built around the actual needs of entrepreneurs.

TRIBA™ Training powers:

  • ApprentEA™, the first DOL registered apprenticeship for aspiring Enrolled Agents
  • ImpactEA™, the comprehensive career development program for active EAs

No other academy, association, or university prepares Enrolled Agents with this level of integrated, practical, small business-focused training.

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The Taxley Ecosystem

One Academy. Two Foundations. Three Programs.

Enrolled AGents

Professional Development

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Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur Guidance

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