My tax prep contact officially retired and closed shop after 30 plus years of service. I had to…read moreleave town unexpectedly for several weeks. The tax prep person where I am currently located gave a projection of owing a ton of money to uncle sam. I decided to search on Yelp for someone more credible and found these awesome people/company to work with. Highlights are: 1. Very responsive, lightning fast reply's 2. Reachable via email, phone 3. Quick to review documents 4. Quick to set up a final appointment 5. All done virtually through a secure system that is user friendly 6. I did not pay as much as originally stated by the first person I reached out to 7. Outstanding zoom call that was quick and painless 5 out of 5 stars!

So this is the first year I owned a business (LLC) and was looking to get help and hopefully find…read morean accountant for the future. Now I'll be the first to say, I'm pretty lost with profit/losses and book keeping, as I said it's my first time. For the past 8 years I've just used TurboTax for personal, but as I said, first time with a business. Initially you talk with someone over a chat, they ask you questions and you answer them and send them forms. They said they could do my profit/losses for me for about $75 extra, I was fine with it, figured it was worth learning how to do it. Took about a month but finally had my appointment to talk over video (30min). They were 6min late and obviously very tired. I truly felt bad for Yuliya as she seemed so exhausted. We spent the first 18min looking at the Dept. of Washington tax site and she was showing me how to fix my prior quarterly tax filings because she felt I had labeled my business incorrectly. After I showed her what I was doing, she changed her mind and said "I think you're actually fine and doing it right". So that left us 6 minutes to rush through my tax return before her next appointment. In the end I spent $350 to save $3 (the difference in number between what I got in TurboTax vs. having it done by Nationwide). For me, if I would have learned something about better tax reporting for the LLC, it would have been worth it. But it just felt very rushed, very impersonal and honestly I'd rather just go back to doing it myself.

After getting behind in taxes d/t our personal business and then hiring the WRONG person to help us…read moreget caught up, we hired Swank CPA to fix all of the errors that were filed. I had adamantly spoken about an adoption credit with the previous accountant only to discover he did not know about this credit and didn't even research its validity. Swank CPA quickly researched this specific credit (for adopting children from foster care) and applied it easily, saving us literally $20,000 off of what we were being told we owed. Mindy is intelligent, efficient, honest, and has the best interest of her clients in mind at all times! THANK YOU SWANK CPA!

Mindy is as wonderful of a person as she is knowledgeable in things pertaining to taxes. She really…read morehelped me get through a very stressful time in my life as well as put some cash in my bank account. I've given her five stars because I couldn't give her six. Thank you so much for all your help.

I called to see if he was taking new clients for filing taxes. His assistant was rude and…read moreunhelpful. I didn't bother to leave a message because I already was turned off from the experience...

I've worked with Gar for a few years. He knows his business, is responsive, detailed, organized and…read moreis easy to work with.

I was struggling to look for a good CPA to help me with my taxes this year but it wasn't till I…read morefound Guy. He was familiar with Quick Books and helped me organized my balance sheets along with the complexity of my situation. Guy was very communicative, straight forward, easy to work with and reliable. I would recommend him to anyone.

I needed someone to figure out some very old stock transactions from a company that had no on-line…read moreaccessible information about them. Guy did an outstanding job of dealing with the 10s of sheets of paper they sent me. He then did a complete 2018 income tax filing for us. Outstanding service in all respects. Thanks Guy

Deane Stitt helped us find an error on a tax return we had prepared ourselves on Turbo Tax. We…read moredidn't realize we'd made an error until we got the demand letter from the IRS. Deane was very kind, and filed the amended return on the very first appointment for a small fee. I would recommend him to anybody.

Deane is incredibly professional and friendly. Very forthright with information and motivated to…read morehelp. The office is clean and well organized. The staff is friendly as well. Anybody would be happy to have him as their accountant/tax professional.

Inna was very professional, knowledgeable, and highly educated on all things taxes and correct tax…read morestrategy planning. She answered all our questions and was very courteous during our phone conversation. We appreciate her wisdom and her willingness to help people understand current tax laws and regulations. She comes highly recommended by us. A pleasure to do business with such a professional business lady.

I have used the services of this company twice and have been completely satisfied. They are always…read moreavailable and have answered all my questions related to taxes and managing my LLC.

My taxes didn't get done. I got no response for some time and needed to find another company. It…read moreended up making my taxes late for the year.

From the owner: We provide complete Tax, Accounting, Bookkeeping, and Payroll services,…read more Tax services include: review of prior years, completion of current and missing filings. Accounting and Bookkeeping services include monthly reconciling and reports as well as all year end reports needed for tax filings. Payroll services are complete including payroll, tax filings, quarterly state and federal filings, and all year end filings including W-2's and 1099's.

Stay away from this company. Just got off the phone with the Oregon State Auditor and they got no…read morelove for these guys. I have gotten no response after 3 requests for one letter of appeal that they supposedly sent to OR. I think they got one bad apple and one unresponsive guy trying to save his *ashtray in there that is ruining it for everyone. My two clients are probably going to end up owing somewhere between $30000 and $100000 just to the State of OR. If they send a referral to the IRS it could be 3 times that amount. This bad apple they have there as confirmed by my investigation is apparantly down with cancer. And while she has my best wishes to get well soon, I would not want to get near the Heat she's drawing down on Checked and Balanced customers.

After being audited for the two years we worked with Jen I learned that she does not have a license…read moreto practice tax preparation. Her company is a fraud. The IRS informed us she does not have a CPA license. After being audited I reached out to Jen and checked & balanced for help. They informed me they would take care of the IRS paperwork. After receiving multiple letters from the IRS I contacted checked & balanced 3 more times. In which they informed me they "forgot". They have completely stopped responding to emails and phone calls. After speaking with an auditor from the IRS I learned that Jen has been doing this for years. She makes up numbers, isn't licensed to practice, and ghosts clients as soon as they get audited. BEWARE that Jen and her company is fraudulent. Expect to owe the IRS if she files your taxes!