After years of getting absolutely ripped off by H&R Block and a few mishaps with filing my own…read moretaxes with Turbo Tax I decided to take the advice of a friend and try Mrs. Madeline's Tax Service. With over 40 years experience and having actually worked for H&R Block for over 22 years, she is an absolute pro and sweetheart. As you can imagine I was quite nervous to have my taxes prepared for the first time in a few years and these feeling were immediately eased when I noticed Madeline's motto on her business cards: "In for a while, out with a smile :)". This was the absolute best tax experience of my life! Madeline and her associate, Sylvia, were professional, thorough, hysterical, and most importantly accurate. They put all my fears to rest and were truly looking out for my best interest. I cannot say enough good things about the quality of work and my overall experience at Madeline's Tax Service. This IS as good as it gets!

These gals are awesome. Personable, non-judgmental and savvy to tax law. Be aware they are strictly…read moreby the books, no bending of the rules.

We give our highest recommendation to Cristina and her team at Abelson-Perez Law. We had a…read morecomplicated estate case with the County of Los Angeles. We are in the Bay Area. Cristina and her team were knowledgeable, sincere, responsive, and always took the time to explain to us and walk us through a very demanding process. We feel lucky that we found Abelson-Perez.

This Law Firm handled my Estate Planning they were very professional, courteous and answered all my…read morequestions and believe I had a lot of questions. When I sent a email I got a response back the same day. Everything was explained in words I could understand and I appreciated that. I highly recommend this firm. Patsy

Thank you so much for helping me with my business needs snd and my personal taxes…read more I have been working with Tameka's Bookkeeping & Tax Consulting since I opened my business in 2017. I appreciate her helping me and my family over the years. I would recommend her to other businesses owner's as she has helped me. As well as for personal taxes. Especially, since English is not not primary language she has been very patient and supportive. Wilson Richmond Vacuum & Repair Shop

Small Businesses BEWARE. Tameka has terrible communication…read moreand will not respond to emails for weeks on end. She will ignore your emails and then act like unbothered when she finally responds. . Our small business now owes 20k in taxes because she failed to do an adequate job at listing our expenses. Til this day she has not responded to my various emails and has not confirmed filing our taxes from MONTHS ago which will cost us in late fees and interest. Please consider someone else with your taxes.

Coworker of mine recommended me to Aida and told me to tell her that he recommended her. She…read morecharged me $600+ fee for a simple tax return. I had no properties then and no business. She got the job done but for hefty price. Beware.

Very disappointing…read more I went to Aida Torres in early February. Gave her all necessary info to do my tax return. She procrastinated 'til mid March. Then she made mistake after mistake. For example, subtracting OID earnings from income instead of adding it. Had to plea with her to make the correction. Yadda yadda yadda. She's an old princess. Then HSA distribution got on wrong line on the wrong form. Had to plea again with long emails and many annoying phone calls. Then she double-counts itemized deductions, dropping my AGI by tens of thousands of dollars, ignoring my request to please check the calculations. It would've been huge red flag for an IRS audit. Had to spend time again doing it myself to prove her errors. Ohh okay, she blames her software. Said it's "the reason why clients have to review!" Then continues to ignore my IRA contributions, on and on and on. Endless mistakes! Now it's deadline time. I have absolutely ZERO confidence in Aida Torres. Should be zero star rating! Had to hire somebody else -- had to get a true tax professional. Wasted almost seven hundred dollars on retarded old princess Aida Torres. Tremendous headache all around. Just a horrible experience. Waste of time, waste of money. Gained lots of anxiety, gained lots of extra work. Okay, it was my mistake picking her. And she proclaims, "I've now provided you with excellent service." What delusions. What a joke!

I've been using Harriet for over 30 years. Her prices are at the lower end, she's responsive to…read morequestions throughout the year, and her assistant Kathy is always friendly and helpful.

Harriet has always been my go to lady for taxes ever since I started having to file them and does…read morean amazing job! From the start she's been there to answer all of my questions and messages and helped me understand what I was putting in and what I was getting back over the years. I've looked at other tax preparers and none of them were able to provide me with a personal and easy experience as Harriet has. Her rates have always been less expensive than other tax services and she's really fast as well. I always dread this time of the year but she takes care of everything for me, love her!

If you are looking for an accountant with a lack of security, controls, and communication then API…read moreis the choice for you. We went to API in February and hoped to hire them as our long term accountant for personal taxes. We dropped off our tax documents and from there the lack of communication started. We were never provided instructions on what the process is, no quote on how much the service was going to cost before work was to be done - even though we were new clients (we were just provided a range). Our taxes should not be that complicated - married couple with no kids and one rental condo property. With no forewarning, our paperwork was passed off to a different accountant (Tim Mulgew) than the initial person we engaged with. Then we were provided a bill for 2.5x the original quoted range with no explanation except they considered the tax scenario to be complicated. If our individual tax circumstances are complicated, I would hate to see how API handles taxes for businesses. Ignoring all of the above, that is not even that big of a deal until we realized all of our personal and financial information was leaked. 1. API sent us an email with a PDF tax summary including but not limited to SSN, address, date-of-birth, employer information, phone number, bank information, and other financial details unsecured. No password protection on the document - nothing. 2. They sent out this email to the wrong email address, not once, but multiple times even after we informed them they sent it to the wrong party. 3. After realizing this blunder they provided us no steps or guidance to mitigate the situation. I promptly requested a call back from Tim, but never got one. I was informed by the initial person we engaged with that Tim was visiting his brother. Ok, not getting a call back for one day, or even one week is understandable. Not getting ANY calls or emails back from Tim, speaks volumes on reliability. I had to go out on my own to do research wasting many hours, contact the appropriate institutions, and purchase identity theft protection to safe guard my information. API said they would reimburse me for the identity theft protection but never did. I also question the accounting practices of API. I submitted our exact same tax paperwork for the year to two other accounting firms to validate (one local accountant and the other is one of the largest accounting firms in the country.) The two other accounting firm's calculations are quite close, but API's return was thousands of dollars off! If Tim and/or the owner of API reads this post feel free to reply and give us an excuse.

I always did our own taxes and was very reluctant to hire an accountant and a tax preparer. Boy,…read morewas I naive! There are so many tax laws, regulations and strategies that I was (and most people are) unaware of. Coming to API not only educated me on how to reduce my taxes with proper tax planning and smart financial investments, but they also recouped tens of thousands of dollars in prior taxes that we overpaid. They also have a superstar person on staff dedicated to help with those scary IRS notices. I've never heard of any other tax firms that have this. This is a great tax firm with lots of experience and friendly people. It's a real hidden gem. API's Yelp score does not do them justice but then again people usually only leave reviews when they are upset. Only 5 negative reviews in 20 years? I think that's a fairly good track record. And it's pretty obvious that API doesn't rely on or request their clients to write or post online reviews for business. Most, if not all, of their clients seem to be taken by referral. If they've been in business this long and still going strong, they must be doing something right.

I run a property management business which involves a lot of complex accounting. We hired Jay to…read morehelp us and he has been nothing but an asset ever since. He is very professional, honest, hard working and is motivated with getting problems solved for his clients. We recently ran into an audit from the bureau of real estate and Jay has been absolutely instrumental in helping us prepare and using the resources his firm has access to, to organize a mountain of information in a way that matches the bureau's requirements. He has really gone above and beyond what a typical CPA firm would do. I would strongly recommend the services of Focus Accounting to anybody in Northern California who needs the help of a highly professional, honest and dedicated accounting firm, who will be more than just a service, but an asset to any business.

one of the worst tax file preparer. i wont recommended to anyone. They dont have any price; they…read morejudged the people and charged accordingly. they charged me and my family members with different price and they even dont explain properly. especially being they are from Nepali community, i thought they will be helpful but instead they are very rude and unprofessional. please all of our Nepali community people, tried not to file with them, they will take advantage of you.

Been coming here for years to get my taxes done!!! Since High school honestly, people are always…read morefriendly and always informative. They work to get you the best refund and charge fairly well.

They ask you to send an email of your information to never open or reply to it. Their phone just…read morerings, calls don't go through. Clearly unprofessional. I sent my information months ago and still haven't gotten any response nor have been able to contact anyone. Don't waste your time