Pass the IRS Special Enrollment Examination (SEE) and earn the Enrolled Agent credential — unlimited rights to represent taxpayers before the IRS.
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Sourced from primary federal regulations and study guides — re-ingested on a schedule, never loosely paraphrased.
The Enrolled Agent (EA) credential is the highest credential the IRS awards. Unlike CPAs and attorneys — whose licenses are state-issued and broader than tax — an EA is a federally authorized tax specialist with unlimited rights to represent any taxpayer, before any IRS office, on any tax matter. You earn it by passing the three-part Special Enrollment Examination (SEE).
The SEE is three separately-scored parts, each 100 questions, taken in any order within your testing window:
You pass each part with a scaled score of 105 (on a 40–130 scale) and have two years to pass all three.
The SEE tests federal tax law as of December 31 of the prior year. Dollar figures — the standard deduction, contribution limits, the gift exclusion, brackets — change every year with inflation. Study from a stale guide and you’ll memorize last year’s numbers.
Every PassFirst question names its tax year and is anchored to current law. The current window tests tax year 2025 figures, and our pool is built to those numbers — re-anchored each May when the new window opens.
Built for future Enrolled Agents who want to pass all three parts and get to work representing taxpayers.
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Yes. Questions are generated and checked against the current EA source documents, then re-ingested on a schedule when those documents change. We don't ship loosely paraphrased material.
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The question pool tracks the current federal source documents. When the regulations update, the affected questions are regenerated and re-verified — and your access carries through it.
This is a federal credential, so the question pool is scoped to exactly the federal knowledge sections you'll be tested on — no state variations to worry about.
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