Accountants and the 2024 presidential election

With tax season officially closed, accountants can now look forward to the second-most important part of 2024: election season.

Both of the main political parties have more or less settled on their candidates — the same two who faced off in 2020, Donald Trump and Joe Biden — and both men’s camps have already begun laying out their positions and their priorities, including around taxes. There’s still a long way to go until November, however, and we can expect much more detail to emerge over the next several months.

At this stage in the campaign, accountants’ preferences in the presidential race are fairly evenly split (much as they were in 2020), though overall the profession generally leans Republican in its political preferences.

One thing that unites accountants — and much of the rest of the country — is a general sense of dissatisfaction with the current state of our political system.

(For more details, see our feature story on accountants’ concerns for election year.)