Werner: The Hidden Tax Hike for Accountants in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” | Quick Tax Tip

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Trump’s new “Big Beautiful Bill” might look like a win for taxpayers…but not so fast. For accountants, lawyers, consultants, and other professional service providers, it could bring a stealthy tax hike.

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In this episode of Quick Tax Tip, expert Art Werner unpacks how this proposed legislation may change the way accountants—and other professionals—get taxed. The bottom line? If you’re part of a pass-through entity, your tax benefits may be about to shrink.

Werner opens the discussion with a familiar refrain in tax: It depends.

Posted on July 16, 2025

Art Werner

About the Author

Arthur Joseph Werner, JD, MS (Taxation), is the president and founder of the professional education firm Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd.

Werner’s lecture topic specialties include business, tax, financial and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals.

Werner lectures extensively in the areas of Estate Planning, Financial Planning, and Estate and Gift Taxation to Certified Public Accountants and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 3000 eight-hour seminars over the past 25, years as well as numerous webinars and video presentations. He has been rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs, was awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in the State of Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.

In addition, he is a former adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at The Philadelphia University. Werner received his B.S. in Accounting and his M.S. in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School.

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