Mary is a thorough and detail oriented accountant. I've been her client for about 4 years and I…read morealways feel like I'm in the best hands. She helped me navigate the confusing financial and tax things that happens after a parent passes away, including the final tax return and how to ensure things were organized and filed correctly. Mary is also direct, to the point, and available and super responsive when I needed her. I am planning to be her client for a very long time!

I came to Mary for some advice on how to best fund a large charitable contribution I am planning to…read moremake. Mary checked out my recipient to make sure they were legit. She looked over my tax return. She then gave me some very practical advice on how the taxes might or might not flow from my funding sources. She introduced me to the concept of a Qualified Charitable Contribution from my IRA - something I had never known about and which will be extremely useful in my planned charitable giving. Mary more than earned her fee for the consultation.

Cathy Root is a highly skilled, experienced and responsive Oakland-based CPA and tax advisor…read more Definitely 5 Stars.

Cathy and her team are friendly, responsive, easy to work with, and efficient. Highly recommend.read more

I have been a client of Jutta and Reyna for about 10 years. I may have found her thru Yelp, lol. My…read moreprevious tax accountant retired a bit over 10 years ago and I needed someone with international experience. Jutta has been a pleasure to work with. She and her team are very knowledgeable in international tax laws, and they are always responsive and cordial. Several of my immediately family members have been utilizing her firm. Highly recommended.

Jutta and Reyna have been preparing my personal taxes for the last 10+ years. They have been…read moreaccurate, efficient, and on time ever since we started working together. I appreciate their knowledge, expertise, and suggestions on how to be most prudent with my tax liability. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for a reliable and knowledgeable professional.

These are some of the most understanding and helpful people you can come across. The process of…read morefiling was simple and everything was made very easy to understand. My lack of knowledge was not an issue and plenty of time was taken to make sure I was up to speed with everything. 10 out of 10 will be using Diamond Bay Tax Services again.

I was glad I was able to get an appointment quickly close to the deadline and at a decent rate…read morecompared to others. A lot of places were charging way too much. I was charged over what I was quoted, but I just paid since I don't like being difficult. I usually do my own taxes but people kept telling me that I'd get more through a professional. Come to find out, it was the same outcome, so I'll go back to doing my own taxes next year. It was worth a shot. Anyway, they were nice and straight to the point. It was easy filing as we had a simple tax return. Would I go back? Probably no, but I thought I'd give it a shot.

Diabolical We were…read morelooking for a long term person to work on our taxes as expats from the UK, so we thought Chris would be the right person. We asked would they be able to take on our case before the tax deadline (a month or two before), they said they could and I pretty much provided all the documents needed in a few days. However a month or two later just before the deadline we were assigned to someone called Steven Daniel - he was without a doubt the absolute worst person we've ever dealt with in terms of client experience. He would ask us stupid questions like can we convert an image to a document for him to which I pointed out there are plenty of tools online for that. They filed an extension without telling us we would be liable for any interest. A month or so passes and they then start following up with questions saying they are nearly done. Another month passed and they upload the preliminary tax bill into their portal without telling us. The tax bill was a lot higher than expected, I clarified this with Chris, sent the money to the IRS and he said nothing more was needed. Another month passes and Steven emails us asking would we like to file the tax return. WTF Steven?!? The man is clearly an absolute imbecile and did not work out when I said we have paid the IRS (for which he was in the email) this means file the bloody return?!? I get a call from Chris apologising saying they will cover the interest. To this date I have never received this despite sending them the interest bill I paid off for several hundred dollars. For the luxury of all this madness, they charged me $1500. At that price I would be expecting a fairly high end service, this was beyond belief - I cannot fathom how they are happy to charge this for some of the worst professional service I have ever experienced. In short, steer clear unless you have more money than sense - if you hear the name Steven Daniel, run and do not look back.

I can not speak highly enough of Chris, Anthony, Norma, Robin...the whole team at…read moreFrederiksen-Crawford CPAs. Frederiksen-Crawford has been doing our taxes for 4 years now and every single year they do a fantastic job leaving us consistently pleasantly surprised at the end of tax season. Our taxes are moderately complicated with some W2 stuff, some self-employment business stuff, rental property, property sales (capital gains), etc. and while some firms I have worked with in the past struggled to get it all correct and submitted on time, Frederiksen-Crawford has been meticulous about getting it all correct, on time every single year. They are professional, informative, easy to work with, diligent, and effective and make what could be a painful tax season feel fair and relatively painless. Thank you Frederiksen-Crawford! We'll see you next year.

Melissa has been helping my family with our tax preparation for years. As my financial situation…read morebecame more complex and I can no longer trust myself with TurboTax, she expertly took over once I provided all my documents. She was able to reduce my liability. The e-filing process was simple and paying what I owe was a secure and seamless process. She has given me peace of mind through the years and I trust that she prepares my taxes accurately as I have never had any issues with the IRS. I plan to continue working with Melissa as she has been helpful with tax saving strategies as my life situation changes.

Welp. I'm updating my review because I wrote the review yesterday. She emailed me with the copy of…read morethe 2024 as I requested, but 12 hours after she said she sent it to me. (I checked my spam and mentioned that i will hadn't received it.) She was kind and considerate, until I said that I was at a wedding and couldn't respond. I am now pretty shaken about the exchange I had. You can judge for yourself if you want her for your CPA. I tried to delete my review, but I was met with an error message. To be clear, I never asked her for a refund for what I paid her for her services. I never said quoting a price was illegal. I'm not sure why she said that, honestly. I think people that receive a service should be paid in full, which I did. I wasn't trying to skirt out of any payment. I was going to edit my entire review. Instead, I'm trying to delete a review at almost 1 in the morning because of this exchange I received and it completely ruined my whole night and happy wedding/celebratory mood and replaced it with unnecessary stress because she wanted the review removed before 3am.

Tina has been doing my taxes for more than 10 years and I think she's the best! She takes the time…read moreto understand my business and suggest strategies to legally maximize my deductions. She helped me organize my record keeping to make it easier to find the information I need at the end of the year as well as pointing out missed opportunities to capture other deductible expenses. H&R never did that! Now I just send her my year-end investment statement, 1099s and a few other forms and she works her magic! I've been happy with the results every year! Tina also provides classes in various aspects of tax law that can help the average person minimize their tax liability. It's great to feel like you know what's going on without having to become a tax expert yourself and it's an opportunity to ask questions when you aren't getting billed by the hour. And sometimes other people ask relevant questions you hadn't thought of!

May is proactive, responsive, thorough and super professional. Highly recommend her service.read more

This is the most straightforward 5 star review! I had the…read morepleasure of working with May two consecutive years. May is not only an exceptional accountant, prompt and responsive but she is a woman with a kind heart, patient personality and outstanding professionalism! I highly highly recommend May for any personal or business accounting needs to anyone!!