Member Benefits

Maximize Your Membership and Take Advantage of Your Benefits

Members of TXCPA Houston and TXCPA have access to a variety of benefits. From the protection and promotion of the CPA license to adding 28,000 contacts to your network, there are big advantages to being part of our professional community.

Advocacy

TXCPA governmental affairs volunteers work tirelessly to protect the CPA license in Texas and all it stands for. Learn more about how your interests are being represented at the local, state, and national levels. TXCPA Houston members have the opportunity to discuss current issues with IRS and local taxing authority representatives at our Circular 230 Professional roundtable meetings.

Quality Education

Members benefit from access to a comprehensive portfolio of courses designed to both keep you in the know and help you take your career to the next level. CPE is about more than compliance. It’s about competence. And our courses give you the opportunity to dive deep into your specialty or get a clear understanding of new standards and regulations – in a classroom or on your own time in the comfort of your home or office. Emerging professionals will want to check out Accelerate, our unique program designed to help build your leadership skills. Members also enjoy special savings on CPE registration fees.

Connections

You are part of a community that is 28,000 strong statewide and 7,000 strong here at home. Take your connections to the next level by attending chapter programs and events and participating in TXCPA Exchange. Network with other members and local professionals at our Morning Buzz, Membership Luncheon, or Happy Hour events. Serve your local community by participating in our internal charities CPAs Helping Schools and Accounting Scholarships or attend one of our many community service events we schedule throughout the year. Together we are stronger.

Resources

TXCPA Houston and TXCPA offer you access to resources at your fingertips. Make us your go-to source for the latest developments in your profession and access your next career opportunity through our career center. Also, take advantage of Wolters Kluwer's valuable industry-leading research and learning products and solutions at a discount rate here. Use these tools to expand your professional development, enhance your knowledge, and increase your expertise on tax, accounting, financial and estate planning, audit topics, and more.

Thomsen Reuters offers 25% off discount. Members can use the Q877 promotion code, or order online at tax.tr.com/TSCH. Order form here.

Savings

The buying power of our association affords you special savings. In addition to local savings, you can also take advantage of savings from TXCPA on insurance packages by leveraging the buying power of 28,000.

Member Benefits News

Fundraising is never easy, especially during a pandemic. Texas legislators will appreciate and remember the support of our CPA-PAC as all businesses and individuals recover. By supporting our PAC, we in turn can make an expression of support to those candidates who we expect to support issues important to Texas CPAs.

Recall that a contribution to the TXCPA PAC is an investment in your profession. Your local TXCPA Houston PAC Steering Committee is a non-partisan group that is tasked with raising funds and then allocating them to candidates that are pro-business and supportive of our profession.

We need your help. Houston, the largest chapter within the TXCPA is typically overshadowed when it comes to the percentage of participation of our members in the PAC versus other chapters. TXCPA recommends target goals for each chapter based on the membership number. While we are the largest chapter, only three percent of the total membership contributes to the CPA-PAC. If every member gave $6.00, we would meet our goal.

When the PAC supports legislators, they return our phone calls, they welcome our visits, they remember us, and they listen to us. It is through that access that TXCPA has had tremendous legislative success.

Success in recent years includes the renewal of the Texas Public Accountancy Act at the conclusion of the sunset review process, another session with no sales tax on our professional services, and in a previous session, the elimination of the $200 professional services “head tax”, essentially reducing your annual licensing fees by $200.

The steady support we provide to CPA friendly legislators is greatly appreciated by those elected officials, and certainly a lot more effective than large contributions only when we need something, which certainly is not the CPA way. Our profession is counting on us, as are our clients and employers.

Please help us by supporting the profession via the TXCPA CPA-PAC.

Click Here to Donate Online

You may mail your check, payable to TXCPA CPA-PAC, to:
TXCPA CPA-PAC
14651 Dallas Parkway
Suite 700
Dallas, TX 75254-7408

This is article is published in the June/July 2022 Forum. Read the full magazine here!