Avoid this place at all cost. I have filed at this place my 2018 taxes and every time I need to…read morespeak with the CPA, secretary takes a message and you never hear from them. Impossible to reach the accountant you are dealing with. Julie Vaiman mispelled my son's name and I have contacted that office many times and never heard back from them. In addition I did my parents taxes here and my mother's last name was mispelled as well. The worst part is, when I was doing taxes this year, my new accountant discovered that Julie filed our taxes without insurance and we ended up paying more than were supposed to ( I remember asking them if they need proof of insurance and they said no). Now this year I have to file for amendment to claim some of my money back. Absolutely unprofessional, rip off place.

Ms. Julie Vaiman and staff are the best! They are number 1 through and…read more through. And very thorough! I will run out of words trying to describe them. So I will just sum it up they are SUPER! I am extremely happy that I retained them to take care of my situation and I got positive results! Because of this organization I am finally joined by my entire family. What more could I ask for? This is the ultimate!

We've been using this firm for our business's bookkeeping and payroll, and they've been amazing…read more Always quick to respond, super reliable, and their pricing is very fair. It's been a great experience working with them! Highly recommend

After many years of experience with other accountants, this group of professionals, working as a…read moreteam, provide great service, are reliable, responsive, and friendly. I would highly recommend them to my family and friends.

I never write reviews because I don't like to damage people's businesses, and it's not my intention…read morein this case either, but after reading the other 1 star reviews I could relate to the pain of that people and finally decided to do it... A summary of my experience: * Mistakes: A year after filing with Choice Tax, we found a considerable discrepancy in my favor from the reports that they prepared, that my new accountant could fortunately amend (It took me 1+ years to get a refund). I initially thought it was due to the complexity of my case, but some mistakes were part of the standard process and could have been perfectly avoided. * Bad customer service: No customer friendly. She sounds arrogant and not very tolerant with questions from someone not well versed in US tax stuff (as I was). Now, If she makes one mistake she'll probably blame you. She also charged me an extra hour for something that I thought was just part of my standard return (I had already payed $720, so I ended up paying more than 1K). Not big deal, but I wasn't expecting that and would have preferred to know upfront. * International assets: I didn't find her knowledgeable enough on things like stocks and/or foreign assets (especially if you have a cross-border or cross-state situation). Most of the time I was on my own on figuring things out or asking questions to my company's HR department, and potentially making mistakes because of lack of guidance. If she had worked on a single case of a person perceiving salary in part in stock and relocating internationally or across states, I wouldn't have to do that or incurred in over-reporting. I thought that my case was quite complex or unique, but after working with other professionals I found out that it wasn't uncommon at all (especially in NYC which is a common relocation destination for employees of big corporations). I see a lot of 5 star reviews, so, as another reviewer said: maybe she's good for US returns but not so much for international and complicated company returns, like mine. I give the benefit of the doubt, but that doesn't take away how bad my experience was.

I've already reviewed the horrible experience I had with Abby. It gets better though. She was so…read moreinjured by my negative review, that she refuses to provide copies of my returns. To be clear, she did provide me a downloadable document last month, but I did not have access to a printer. She locked me out of her system and refuses to provide copies for 3 returns she finished last month. I just want to be done with this office and would be if they sent me my 3 returns, but instead they have chosen to be spiteful. I have literally paid them $2500 and am walking away with 2 returns. I explained that I don't want to take this further and just want my returns that I paid for, but her office wrote: Your request has been reviewed.  Since all the paperwork (returns, etc.) and status have already been provided to you, and as you have been terminated as a client, your request is denied. Not having a printer does not mean you did not receive the tax returns.  Apparently you lost or deleted them in error, especially since you confirmed receipt of them and advised Abby that you were reviewing them. As your case has been closed with this office, there is no further obligation to be involved in your case. Your subsequent tax person(s) will be responsible for assisting you. Regards, Accounting Department - Attn: Ardis Gillan CHOICE TAX SOLUTIONS INC. Licensed to Practice before the IRS140 Broadway                  |  200 Broadhollow Road, Suite 207New York, NY  10005      | Melville, NY  11747Tel.  347.598.0111 | Fax  347.438.3113Visit our website:  www.choice-tax.com

I am one of their regular customers. They have been filing my taxes for more than 5 years now. I…read morehave personal and corporate tax forms to file, so this office helps me a lot. The office staff is very nice. For any reason if I cannot answer their call, they leave a voicemail and send an email. I never had to try to get a hold of them. I refer almost all of my friends who are looking for professional tax specialists. I had to switch maybe 3-4 tax specialists until I was referred to this office. I felt like other tax specialists were just filing my taxes before just to get over with. They never asked questions about what is coming into my account and what is going out of it and for what purpose. Since this office is added to my QuickBooks, they analyze the account activity. I have used TurboTax and H&R Block in the past, years later I realize that I never knew all tax benefits that I was eligible for. I never got any tax returns. Uncle Sam would never give me. You can use self-service platforms only if you know exactly what you are doing. My situation is not that simple, I have multiple 1099 like forms, W2, tax forms from trading platforms like Webull and TD AmeriTrade from stock trading, so I need a professional eye to go through them. They service individual and corporate clients, so I believe no client is too small or too big for them. Give it a try!

The best Accounting firm, I've been going to them for years and referred all of my friends and…read morefamily. They are honest, extremely professional, fast and always ready to answer any questions.

I've been using Gontar $ Gontar, CPA for the past fifteen plus years, for both business accounting…read moreand business and personal tax purposes. I am always satisfied with the quality of service I received. They are professional and very thorough to the point of being anal , the way an account should be.

This is my first time using an accountant and I was referred by my family member because they did…read moresuch a great job. Needless to say they did an awesome job! Danny helped me with mine and he couldn't be any more nicer and patient. Definitely recommend their services!

We came here for a second opinion since our refund did not sound right when I did it myself on…read moreturbo tax Danny did our taxes and explained things to us, that no other places did previously. We weren't able to save any money back on taxes but at least we have a better understand of why. We're planning to come back next year.

Paul Mei, CPA and his team continue to deliver quality accounting services in a first class way to…read moreboth small and large clients. In today's world rooted with technology first, you simply do not come across people like Paul anymore. Highly recommend Paul and his team.

Update to my prior review: After my review appeared, I received an email message from Paul Mei,…read moresaying, among other things, "Can't believe you would write such an extremely nasty review.... If you really want to complain, use your real name, not 'Peter D.' Fight like a man, not a sniper that stab people behind." As I mention in my review, he complained a lot during the few weeks we used him; I asked him to let us know how we could restructure the project to make it more efficient and easier for him. Instead, he just quit, with no notice at all. Now he's sent this message to me. I do not think this professional. I really want everyone to understand what you're getting into if you hire Mei CPA. Below is my review in full: He quit in the middle of a job because it is "too much for me." I work for a very small business with very limited bookeeping needs, and Mei CPA was indirectly recommended to us; it took a really long time to explain to Paul what seemed to be really simple concepts of running a business (some money comes in for sales, some goes out to pay our suppliers, and there are business expenses for advertising and marketing need to be accounted for as well - that's really it). He kept expressing befuddlement at all of this. I asked him over and over again if there was a better way to do our accounting; he kept talking about how confusing this is, and he never offered any advice or suggestions for how to make it better. On the materials he created for us, he always got the name of the company wrong. He kept representing himself as my personal accountant, even though I told him over and over again that the accounting had to be done for the LLC, which I don't own in its entirety. He said that "usually" that's not the way he does things, and so he never fixed the errors in what he created for us. I had to do it myself. He didn't ever seem to understand the basic idea of what a business is, and he kept complaining all the time about it without offering any suggestions. Every time he complained, I asked him please to give us suggestions for improvement, but he never did. He offered nothing of value. A week or so ago, he called me and said that the job was too "tedious" for him, that there were "too many numbers to add up." I asked him if there was a way to simplify it, to make our system less complicated - this is after all what we were coming to him for. He said, "It's not that it's complicated, it's that it's tedious." He complained that the work for Q2 had taken him an entire day to complete and that he wasn't paid enough. I offered to work on getting him more money, if that was the concern. Following this conversation, I sent him an email - I began as follows: "Good morning, Paul - Thanks again for raising your concerns yesterday about the tedious nature of the work you're doing on this project. I hope this email helps clarify what we are looking for and the way this runs, which we discussed verbally, and you can then use this to send a proposal for the types of work you are willing to do, and we can see if it fits in with what we need." I followed then by outlining the nature of the company - how he should treat payments to the company, from the company, outlining as clearly as I could the various different income streams, and asking him to outline how he would propose the service should work, what he would be willing to do. I had by that time devoted a huge amount of time to trying to get him up to speed. He sent back an email quitting with no notice. He said, "This project is too much for me," still without explaining what about the work was "too much" or what would have made it better for him. Was it just too much work? Was it too complicated? Was there something that could have been done to streamline our accounting system? This is what we would have hoped to get from him. Maybe he didn't like me, or the work, or whatever it was. I certainly tried my best to make it work; I was never rude to him, never snapped at him, tried to explain it patiently over and over, and always sought his input and feedback. But even if somehow he just didn't like me, this is really unprofessional behavior, just to quit like this and do nothing to finish the work he started.

While Iryna has provided tremendous tax and financial acumen and guidance, it's been her personal…read moresupport and care that has been truly distinguishing. Iryna helped me through a difficult stretch with great knowledge, compassion and results. It's been my pleasure to recommend Iryna to friends and family - and now everyone!

Iryna helped set up my entertainment company back in 2011 and ever since then she's been handling…read moremy small business, Aldo Ryan Entertainment and personal bookkeeping, taxes and beyond. During these years, we NEVER experienced any problems with her or any of her staff members. On the contrary: we've been very satisfied with the level of service and communication they've been providing to us. Iryna is a very smart, sharp and honest professional. She attends continuing education seminars and conferences all over the country annually. Her office applies the latest technologies in their work, which makes everything easier, more organized, protected, faster and less expensive for the client. Iryna is on top of the latest tax updates; she sends out all sorts of reminders to her customers along side with personal emails to make sure all the deadlines are met, payments scheduled, nothing missed. The response time frame is unlike all the other accountants we ever dealt with: if not within an hour, then within 24 hrs for sure (which I like very much!) During Tax season she likes to stay in touch even more: by sending all kind of reminders and preparation lists, following up and making sure everything is to a T. Every month during payroll time, her office makes sure our bank account is good to go for any kinds of withdrawals to avoid insufficient funds fees and such. I enjoy reading her monthly newsletters - not too long and very informative. We highly recommend Iryna's Tax services to any individual or company!