When it comes to learning a skill it is often most beneficial for the person to be shown exactly how to NOT perform the task. So when learning how to prepare taxes you may want to learn the best ways to fail as a tax preparer first. There are a multitude of ways to do a bad job when you are preparing a client's taxes and the consequences of your failure could reverberate for you and your client in the years to come. You have your client's life in your hands when you are tapping that keyboard. So let's take a look at the best ways for a tax preparer to make NO money doing taxes.