The Future of Enrolled Agents and the Success of Entrepreneurs are Inseparable.
Taxley is the national academy advancing the EA profession – developing the only federally licensed financial advocates best positioned to strengthen households, small businesses, and the economy they power.
Small businesses driving the economy – often without meaningful guidance.
Of business failures are tied to cash-flow and financial mismanagement. (U.S. Bank)
Enrolled Agents licensed to represent taxpayers nationwide – a real talent shortage.
Millions Need Help. Only Thousands Are Licensed to Provide It.
Even then, most EAs are trained to pass an exam – not to interpret the full personal-and-business picture of an entrepreneur, guide through high-stakes tax and operational decisions, or protect the stability of households and small businesses. That’s the gap Taxley’s closing.
A 140-Year Profession. A Modern Economy. A Gap Too Big to Ignore.
Established in 1884, Enrolled Agents hold the nation’s highest federal credential in tax law – yet the profession has never had the training, pipeline, or development structure required for what entrepreneurs face today.
Meanwhile:
Fewer than 70,000 Enrolled Agents serve 168 million taxpayers and 33 million small businesses. The workforce simply doesn’t match the need.
CPAs, attorneys, and unlicensed preparers also serve taxpayers, but no credential pathway prepares professionals to integrate:
This capability gap shows up everywhere: in IRS and GAO reports, in firms searching for talent, and in entrepreneurs making preventable mistakes.
Taxley exists to change that.
We created ApprentEA – the first employer partnership and Registered Apprenticeship program for the EA profession, powered by TRIBA™: the first professional development standard focused on tax resolution and integrated business advocacy, specifically designed to elevate Enrolled Agents.
The result: a real workforce pipeline and capable, practice-ready professionals firms and small businesses have needed for decades.
This isn’t more training. It’s a new era for the EA profession – and a new future for the entrepreneurs who depend on it.
Challenging the Status Quo While Leveling the Playing Field
Taxley is raising standards and expanding opportunity across the EA profession – developing capable talent, strengthening firms, empowering entrepreneurs, and improving the financial outcomes of the communities they serve.
The Taxley Ecosystem
Building the EA Workforce the Economy Has Been Missing.
Three pathways designed to attract new talent, prepare firms for growth, and advance licensed EAs into modern, high-impact advisory roles.
ExplorEA
Discover the EA profession
A clarity and readiness pathway for people exploring the EA field. Participants gain direction, confidence, and a guided understanding of whether this career is right for them.
Ideal for: Students and career seekers, age 16+
ApprentEA
develop your EA workforce
The nation’s first EA workforce development partnership — blending development structure, talent pipeline access, and a Registered Apprenticeship that builds practice-ready EA talent.
Ideal for: Tax, law, and accounting firms
ImpactEA
advance your eA career
A professional development pathway for active Enrolled Agents who want to strengthen judgment, advisory skill, and long-term impact through ongoing development and TRIBA-level training.
Ideal for: Licensed Enrolled Agents
Developing the Leaders Our Professionals Are Trained to Support
Small businesses don’t fail because owners lack effort. They fail when critical decisions are made without clarity, structure, or support.
Taxley’s workforce development ecosystem prepares Enrolled Agents to think critically, interpret financial reality, and guide high-stakes decisions. But capable advisors alone aren’t enough.
Entrepreneurs must also know how to lead – how to understand their numbers, recognize risk, set boundaries, and make decisions that protect both the business and the person behind it.
CentsableCEO™ is where that leadership is built.
CentsableCEO is Taxley’s leadership development pathway for entrepreneurs, focused on financial discipline, operational grounding, and clarity-based decision-making. It prepares business owners to engage advisors, lenders, and partners with confidence and credibility.
This isn’t growth coaching. It’s leadership development for stability, accountability, and long-term viability.
Tax issues and operational breakdowns aren’t treated as isolated problems here – they’re signals of where leadership and structure must strengthen.
Taxley develops both sides:
This is the bridge between owning a business and leading one well.
About Taxley
And the Woman Leading the Evolution of the EA Profession
For nearly two decades, Anisha Bailey, EA, MSEL, Founder and CEO of Taxley, has worked inside the financial lives of families and small businesses – resolving IRS and state tax problems, course-correcting struggling entrepreneurs, and helping families recover from the fallout of preventable financial decisions.
Those years revealed a pattern no profession was designed to solve:
This clarity reshaped her mission – and transformed Taxley from a consulting practice into a national workforce development academy.
Drawing on her expertise in tax law, entrepreneurship, financial behavior, and executive leadership, she created:
Today, her work is redefining what Enrolled Agents can contribute – and building the workforce small businesses have needed for generations.
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