best accountants , do my taxes with them every year, highly recommended, especially if you have…read moremultiple businesses.

Previous to coming to Sal, we were suffering with the worst accountant on the planet. We were…read morealways on payment plans because we always owed so much and we always seemed to be getting letters from the IRS about mistakes the accountant had made. Sal Grasso & Company were referred to us by a friend, and Sal is incredible at explaining everything clearly, and concisely--and to our shock, we actually got a sizable refund! First time ever! It's been a total pleasure working with him. The offices and other staff are great, too. We're totally happy --Best decision we ever made.

The best tax preparers in town! I'm so glad after years of…read moreswitching accountants, I've finally found the place that I feel good about sticking with. Working with them was such a pleasure, very friendly and knowledgable people. Highly recommend!

Alan is an amazing CPA! Very knowledgeable and fairly priced and overall a great guy! Highly…read morerecommend his services!!!!!!!

ALAN is a wonderful CPA. I came to him a nervous wreck and he didn't take advantage of my…read moresituation. He was EXTREMELY transparent and I think we all want that with someone who is dealing with finances. Alan would also sit and explain to you everything that he is going to do for you and why he is doing it. He tries to make sure you understand your money and he does a great job. Please don't hesitate to reach out to him and he also offers other services

I am writing this review to share my experience with Mainline Partners. I have trusted Robert Gregg…read morewith my taxes for over 20 years, and I can't recommend him highly enough. He is incredibly thorough, professional, and always goes above and beyond to make sure everything is done right. He makes what could be a stressful process feel easy and manageable. I'm grateful to have someone so dependable handling my finances. Thank you, Robert and Mainline team! So happy that we don't have to bounce around every year to find a good company.

I had a very poor experience with this company. I reached out two weeks ago to see if they were…read moreavailable to do my taxes. I got a prompt response that they could and to send my w2s and any other pertinent information which I did, and for two weeks got the run around. I made countless calls and emails trying to just get confirmation that the taxes would be handled and filed with no response. I had countless conversations w their assistant and was told each time that my call would be returned, but it never was. I finally gave up and went with another company. When I emailed the accountant to let them know I did not need or want his services he responded immediately with an excuse and had the nerve to say he could still file my taxes (a day before the deadline). This behavior is absolutely reckless and unprofessional and shouldn't be tolerated w such sensitive and personal information and such an important issue. They're messing with people's lives and run the risk of making people have to file for an extension and accrue penalties. If you can't take on a customer and are overloaded then let them know so they can make other arrangements instead of stringing them along. This is no way to treat a customer.

My long search for a good CPA is finally over. I've found it really challenging to find an…read moreaccountant who knows how to bend all the bureaucracy to my advantage. I found David and Melissa from Shum and Associates to be more than capable: not only are they good at navigating the labyrinth of tax laws and forms today, but they're very adept at coming up with a long term strategy that saves you money. They helped me structure my companies, which receive dividends from investments, in the optimal fashion to mitigate risk, remove liability and have me incur the lowest possible cost.

Melissa has been taking care of my business's bookkeeping and accounting for over two years, and I…read morehave never been more confident that my finances are in good hands! As a small business owner, I do not have the time to allocate to managing my books. I also cannot use DIY accounting programs during tax time because having a business with lots of different kinds of revenue and costs makes it just too complicated for me to sleep soundly. I have referred her to six of my fellow entrepreneurial friends since working with her and everyone loves her approach! Melissa is no nonsense. Her turn around time is impeccable. She's a great listener that focuses on your business strategy versus the clock (as so many other accountants do). If you're looking for trust worthy accountants, you've found 'em!

I'm not a big review-writer but Jonathan is great. Hard to believe we've never met since at this…read morepoint I trust him like family. Found him through the Freelancers Union, he disentangled my big mess of self-prepared returns a few years back, got me on a clear path with everything working like clockwork. Knowledgable on a range of issues. Trustworthy. Very easy to use the portal system to upload docs etc. Minimal effort required by me, just how i like it. Highly recommend.

I write this review to give fair warning to future customers. We used Medows CPA for three years…read more It was a very up and down experience. Over the past three years, Medows put more preparation burden on his customers (requiring completion of lengthy, convoluted forms which I've never had to prepare for a tax PREPARER before), while complaining that our taxes took a long time to complete. We had to check their work for errors. We learned to expect inaccurate answers and incomplete research when we did have questions - and often completed the research ourselves. He was very helpful when we had a shift in our income/expenditure situation three years ago. Hence two stars. But then our taxes got very simple for two years in a row. A few months ago, I asked for an itemized bill for last year's expenses and/or a fair estimate for this year's work. I was told we were too much work, and it wasn't worth his time to retain us as customers - no answer, no transparency. This is probably par for the course in tax preparation, and there's nothing particularly bad about this service. But there's nothing particularly good either. We'll spend as much time preparing our own taxes this year as we did preparing and checking Medows' work last year, and we'll save $335. For even mildly intrepid souls, I recommend using a tax accountant only when you have a big change in financial circumstances, and in between just use TaxAct.com and a couple of calls to the IRS. It's really not that hard.

Sandy and her team are the best accountants we've had. She is very professional and thorough…read more We feel very comfortable leaving our taxes in her competent hands. The staff is equally helpful and courteous. In the past we've had accountants that did an incomplete jobs or were not current on new tax law. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.

Wasted precious time during tax season emailing back and forth questions. Requesting highly…read moresensitive information, and kept adding to their estimated quote on cost of filing a tax return. After I mentioned living abroad, a question that they failed to ask and I had to mention. They at first said the estimated quote might be even higher than the current $800 quote for a W2 and a 1099-K! After days of waiting they emailed me back saying that "We are not going to be able to help you" AFTER they've TAKEN ALL of my personal and deeply sensitive information. This was confusing, as it is the first time I've ever been denied service by a business; without any explanation no less! I went in with such confidence, so it's been a huge bummer to have such a challenging experience, not only do I hope that my personal information has been deleted as per my request. It also puts me in a very difficult situation now of having to scramble to find another provider that can actually get the job done in a reasonable amount of time.

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.