Accountaneur Advisory's inaugural Tax Survival Season Index is open for participation.
The survey measures the human cost of tax season, such as impacts on sleep, health, relationships and stress. The report is slated to be published annually each May.
"The profession tracks realization rates, utilization and revenue per partner. We track everything except what tax season is actually doing to the people doing the work," Accountaneur Advisory CEO Hitendra Patil said in a statement. "The TSSI exists because you cannot fix what you refuse to measure."
The survey measures five aspects on a scale of zero to 100:
- Increase in caffeine compared to the off-season baseline;
- Weekly hours of sleep lost during tax season;
- Late documents and after-hours client requests;
- Skipped events, workouts and impacted relationships; and,
- Stress and incidents in the days leading up to the deadline.
"'Busy season is hard' is not a data point. It is a shrug," Patil said. "Firms need benchmarks. Managing partners need numbers. The profession needs a mirror. The TSSI is that mirror."
Participants can take the survey, which takes approximately eight minutes, by visiting
