Jessica is amazing! She is so attentive and prompt. I need a little handholding with this type of…read morestuff haha, but she takes all the stress away. Richard has been great too. I also love the small town feel of a local office. I can always drop in with questions and they welcome it.

Terrible service! This business is at the beach instead of at the office!…read moreI am a small business owner and I suppose that is why my accountant will not respond to my emails. Just so unprofessional and so dangerous. These are tax people who should follow through in communication! PR

I've been coming to R Moore Ea & Associates for over 10 years, and the only reason I've stayed is…read morebecause of my amazing accountant, Amy Sanchez. Amy is the definition of professional, knowledgeable, and responsive. She always returns calls in a timely manner, which is HUGE for me. I've dealt with other businesses where I've had to wait days, even weeks, just to get a simple question answered. That has never been the case with Amy. She's consistently on top of everything and makes the entire tax process smooth and stress-free. She's also very reasonably priced and truly has her clients' best interests at heart. I really appreciate that she encourages proactive planning and self-contributions to stay ahead of what's owed to Uncle Sam. It shows she's thinking long-term for her clients, not just about filing and moving on. It would be remiss of me not to mention Lisa at the front desk. In the past, there were front desk staff who didn't seem very happy to be there, which made for an uncomfortable first impression. Lisa is the complete opposite. She's always smiling, remembers names, and is genuinely courteous and helpful every single time. As long as Amy is here, I'll continue to be a loyal client. And if she ever moves, I'll absolutely follow her!

Friendly, accurate, quick, affordable and efficient!! They all make the dreaded chore of filing…read moretaxes more pleasant!!

it's the strangest thing working with these accountants -they act as if you're a pain in their butt…read morewhen you ask questions about your tax return as if you're supposed to know- they are so arrogant- I will never use them again and they are so overpriced - 1100$- for a regular tax return? NO WAY -definitely better and kinder people out there-I guess im not part of the club

I had a very disappointing experience working with John Messina and would not recommend Van Riper &…read moreMessina CPAs based on my experience. I was referred to John due to the complexity of my 2021 tax return, but my return was ultimately prepared by another member of the team. An error on the return later resulted in an IRS audit and over $1,500 in penalties and interest, which I paid in full. Following this, I had significant difficulty getting timely responses or assistance despite multiple follow-ups. Overall, this experience caused me to lose confidence in the firm's attention to detail and client communication. Based on my experience, I would recommend carefully considering other CPA options in the San Diego area.

Lisel and Pam have been an incredible help to our family. We were years behind on our taxes and…read morefelt embarrassed and overwhelmed by the situation. From our very first conversation, the team at Sutter Tax treated us with kindness, professionalism, and understanding. They reassured us that we were not the first people to find ourselves in this position and that they would take good care of us throughout the process. Their expertise and encouragement gave us confidence during what could have been a very stressful experience. If you're behind on your taxes or facing a difficult tax situation, I highly recommend Sutter Tax. They genuinely care about their clients and work hard to help them get back on track.

Lisel and her team have been working with me for years. Each time, it has been a wonderful…read moreexperience. She makes everything so simple and uses the latest tech to get it done quickly and easily. HIGHLY recommended to everyone who needs a tax pro.

The first couple years these guys were very average. The level of service dropped each year until…read moretwo years ago when we couldn't get a call or meeting and every email was answered by someone different. Then they fired us with no referral or explanation. We had referred some family members and they found basic math errors with their filing. Very unprofessional! I would not recommend.

I had a terrible experience with Dave at Coastal Tax Advisors. He would belittle me with every…read morequestion I asked him and at the end, after my Corporation sent tens of thousands in tax payments at his direction, he wouldn't file my 2020 return and told me to find another CPA. Totally unprofessional and terrible customer service. Would not recommend.

I left a one-star review because I couldn't leave a review any lower. Bill and his team and this…read moremost unprofessional, and incompetent people that I have ever had to work with. We had hired a different tax prep company, but in January 2019 we got a notice from them that they had outsourced a bunch of clients to Bill's company. By then I was wrapped up in a major project for a client, so I went with the recommendation. Let's start with our corporate taxes. I had our corporate taxes ready to go on January 23rd, 2019 and I added Sean from Bill's office to our QuickBooks account. I asked for status updates every couple of weeks and never got back a single email. Sean also never accepted the request from QuickBooks to be added to it, so I could see that nothing was being done. The first time I actually heard from Sean is after I called the company that I hired to find out what was going on, this was on April 8th. I heard from Sean twice that day and nothing else. We had several payments that clients had made for work that hadn't been started yet, so we needed to make sure that income was deferred corrected into 2019. I sent that information to Bill multiple times and he never seemed to understand what he needed to do with this information. Our business taxes were eventually done on April 14th after many phone calls and emails to get status updates. I had to assume they were done correctly, as there was no time to double check the work. On our personal taxes; our information was gathered up and sent over on March 8th, 2019. As we had 73 files which had a total size of 36 Megs, I couldn't email the data over, so I uploaded the information to One Drive and had One Drive create a link for the folder, which I sent over to Sean (from Bill's team). Again, I heard nothing when I asked for status updates. When we finally got an email from Bill about what was going on (this was April 8th) the email made it seem like it was doing up a favor by doing our taxes (and that he wouldn't be doing them until April 13th when he was done with his clients that came to his office). We had sent in all the relevant information months before, but his apparent lack of time management meant that our taxes never got done. Bill never figured out how to click on the link that I put in the email to the tax information. At least I must assume that was the problem, as Bill never bothered to tell me why we couldn't download the files that I uploaded for him. On April 12th he told me that I needed to upload the files to his file transfer app. I was using a restaurants Wi-Fi (as I had work to do that day since I wasn't planning on spending the entire day dealing with my taxes) and I kept getting errors from the website that Bill had sent over. The tax firm that I hired in the first place ended up downloaded the files from One Drive and uploaded them via Bill's site since Bill could download the files himself. The week leading up to Tax Day, Bill kept trying to talk us into filing an extension, because I assume he didn't want to do our taxes before April 15th. We kept telling him that an extension wasn't an acceptable option because we had no idea what the estimates where going to be because of all the changes with the tax laws. Like our business taxes, our personal taxes were done on April 14th. I again had to assume they were done correctly, as I didn't have time to sit down and review everything. Having someone do your taxes is supposed to take the stress away from you when it comes to this process. Bill completely failed at this. My stress level went up dramatically, and I have zero confidence that my taxes were done correctly. I would have had less stress if I had simply done them myself, but I didn't have the time which is why I hired someone to do them for me. I'm at the point where I'm going to pay someone else to do them again and file an addendum if/when the taxes that Bill and his team did are wrong. If I had the time, I would have sat in Bill's office and supervised him doing my taxes, but I thought I had a professional doing my taxes; I was wrong. Needless to say, I will never have Bill or Sean ever work on my taxes again; and I'll never hire them to handle any aspect of anything ever again. I've never worked with anyone with such poor time management skills, such poor communications skills, or such an inability to use basic computer skills such as sending an email (emails have subject lines for a reason, any email thread that Bill started has a blank subject line, so I have no idea what emails and responses are to what). I wouldn't trust Bill or Sean with counting the change in a piggy bank much less our taxes which come with legal risk associated with them if they are wrong. If I had known there was an issue in March, I would have simply found another person to handle our taxes. But because I let things go until it was too late, I had no choice but to pay to have work done, which I need to pay to have redone.

Too bad you can't give zero stars. I had a very unpleasant,…read moreunprofessional experience

I've been with Taxes by the Sea for almost 3 years now. I wish I would have found them earlier…read more If you want honest, informative, and timely work...stop right here. I can't put in to words how much easier my life is now that I have someone to walk me though all of my tax and business related questions. You won't be disappointed, promise.

I couldn't recommend Taxes by the Sea or Kendall more! Kendall has done my taxes for the past few…read moreyears and also does bookkeeping for my dad's real estate & lending business. Kendall is friendly, extremely knowledgeable, and quick to reply to any questions that arise during your tax process. My taxes get confusing with multi-state, W2, 1099, etc. and Kendall always knows how to handle them and makes it a truly seamless process. Not only does she do an amazingly quick job in tax filings for the current year, she has provided me with tips and tricks to ensure that next year's taxes are even easier. I highly recommend using Kendall!!

Treva is a pleasure to work with. She is very responsive, always shows up prepared. It's clear…read morethat her burning desire is to help others, help her clients be successful. She can help small business people start out on the right foot by getting their finances set up to prepare them to scale up successfully.

Excellent One on One Quickbooks Training!…read more Had Treva stop by the house to help me setup my Quickbooks, and taught me what I need to know to get off the ground in two hours! With the added consultation of accounting principles applied to my venture, I decided to bring her aboard as our accountant! Excellent service, mountains of patience, and professionalism is what you should expect from Treva.