1.   Along with advertisements for their products, many offer tips on tax preparation as a way to lure you to the page.

2.   And Block, whose core business is retail tax preparation, was not willing to make the investment.

3.   And so it has gone since January, when accountants started gearing up for the annual ritual of tax preparation.

4.   But even though tax day is closing in, that is all the tax preparation she had done by late last week.

5.   Despite that expansion, board Chairman Henry Bloch said tax preparation is still a growth business for the firm he started.

6.   Evenings were often spent at Ilusion Inc., his storefront travel agency which also provides tax preparation and immigration advice.

7.   For consumers, e-filing eases the pain of tax preparation.

8.   For tax preparation, Tyson suggests TurboTax, MacInTax and Kiplinger Taxcut.

9.   If tax preparation is a major concern, Quicken gets the edge because of its close integration with the Turbotax and Macintax programs, also made by Intuit.

10.   Its site has links to lists of tips on tax preparation, common mistakes and a tax calendar.