Jeff Brown had not filed our non-profit organization's tax return in several years, resulting in the loss of our 501c3 status. In pursuit of remediation, he had become unreachable. A one star is not sufficient due to his dereliction of duty resulting in days of additional work to fix his negligence. read more

I originally reached out to Jeff Brown PC back in March, submitted my tax forms shortly thereafter. I didn't hear from anyone for months until I sent an email in June and was responded to by someone in their office. I went through a tax preparer this year because I had taken continuing education courses and wanted to be sure I was receiving a break for that, and was hoping to learn more about what else I could receive tax breaks for. I still feel pretty novice when it comes to paying my taxes and had hoped that by paying for some help that I would receive some personalized attention, and learn a thing or two. Besides my initial phone call back in March I did not feel as though I was given any personalized attention with completing my tax return. When I received my tax return on July 13th (two days before it needed to be submitted) and recognized I was paying nearly 10k in taxes, and that no one had once asked me about potential tax breaks I called and spoke to someone on July 15th. I received my tax forms 7pm on the 15th and ended up paying them late due to the poor timing of it all. I'm well aware that everyone's business and livelihood has been impacted by the pandemic, but I'm still pretty disgruntled with how everything went. I recommend anyone reading this and seeking professional help with their taxes, should do so elsewhere. read more

Jeff and his team provide top-notch tax advice, and we are grateful to be his clients. He helped us overcome some complex tax situations over the years, affecting both our business and personal tax returns. Beyond his office's up-to-date tax knowledge and business acumen, Jeff is an empathetic listener with a good sense of humor. read more

He has done a great job of correctly completing my 1040's and giving me correct tax advice I would recommend him to take care of your taxes as well. read more

JBCPA took over as our CPA Partner in 2007. I have already recommended Jeff and his team to more than 10 people. While taxes and books make me nervous, Jeff uses his mix of intelligence and magic to make my tax payments much lower than other firms have, freeing up our cash for better uses. JBCPA also offers pre-audit services, so if ever there is an audit, no additional payments are levied. I was audited 5 years ago...so pre-audit insurance is a terrific service. The IRS is weird, and Jeff gives me fast and accurate advice, as well as help dealing with ever changing Tax laws. Jeff is also very High Tech, so everything we do with him is integrated and automated. I really like this, since our last CPA firm was still using slide-rules in a basement under candlelight. I am a business owner, employer, family man, property owner, and W2 employee. This is a complicated mix, which Jeff and his team handle with ease. OMG- It just gets better. Jeff's team saved us $25,000 in state taxes by offering to do our Enterprise Tax Zone paperwork. Thanks Jeff and Gary. Great Job. read more

I have used Jeff Brown and his team for over an 8 year period. I have found him to be very knowledgeable and his focus and ability to work with the particular needs of your business as it travels through various bad years and good years is unique in the field. This ability to "deal with" in a professional and correct manor what ever the Federal Government, city and complex domestic and sometimes foreign tax implications are has impressed me over and over. Not only is he a nice guy, who does call you back and does answer your questions not telling what you want to hear but also what you need to hear to maintain a healthy business and crisp, clean and concise tax program. I recommend JB highly Angus Stocks President Smith&Fong read more

We are a small business owner that transfered to CA in 2009. Jeff has cost us considerable fees, penalties, and lost income this year in 2009 as a result of his poor planning and advice at the end of 2008 and throughout 2009. Here are some of his blunders: 1) In the beginning of 2009, Jeff forced our IL business into filing as an S-corp in CA without offering us other alternatives which would've saved us money and not cost us his friends' lawyers fees. We are currently looking for ways to terminate the S-corp. 2) Jeff instructed us to not pay necessary withholdings throughout 2009 which is now costing us considerable fees. 3) Jeff poorly planned the amount of income we would be receiving. As a result, we are now in the red and struggling to make our 2009 tax payments. 4) Jeff did not prepare us for tax laws due to changes by his recommendations in 2009 and into 2010. As a result, much of the accounting is already disorganized and difficult to adjust. 5) Jeff filed the 2009 return improperly forcing mistakes that need to be unwound in 2010. Jeff filed late and was very disorganized throughout the process. We are new to CA and Jeff did a poor job of introducing us to the CA tax laws. Jeff was unresponsive and neglected to follow up with us as clients during the year or even return our calls. Jeff forgot details and lost paperwork. I would DEFINITELY look elsewhere for your tax filings/advice. Jeff is not someone I would ever recommend. read more

Jeff is great at what he does! I have been using his services for 2 years now and his attention to detail is impeccable. Excellent mathematician as one would expect but impressive none the less. Great addition to any large or small business. I highly recommend giving him a call. read more

Jeff Brown is Extremely good at what he does best. FIGHT THE I.R.S. I have used him to help me resolve a decade fight with them, and he did it in 3 months. Now I recommend him to everyone I know need help. His rates are fair, and he will work with you to make sure it gets resolved. read more

I'm really sorry to hear about the other reviewer's experience, however, ours has been completely the opposite. We had 2 accountants in CA prior to Jeff and both cost us a great deal of money in taxes in penalties. Jeff has been extremely responsive both by phone and email and this will be the first year in 5 years that we are actually getting a return. I have been very pleased with Jeff and would strongly recommend him as a tax consultant. read more

With kids, a 1099 business, and assets overseas, we were not comfortable filing our 2013 taxes throughTurboTax as we had done in years past. Jeff Brown was able to take us on as clients late in the game, which was great considering that most CPAs won't take on any new business during the busy tax season. A series of things happened with Jeff Brown which I consider to be unprofessional and truly made us question his attention to detail (which you kind of want in a CPA, right?), but the reason I'm writing this review really boils down to his glib and confrontational response when we pointed out the mistakes he made and the impact it had on our numbers. A quick summary of his transgressions: 1. Despite his office confirming our appointment with us 1-2 days beforehand, he forgot about it and consequently showed up to our meeting an hour late. 2. Returns were sent to us 2 weeks later than promised, and the day before they were due (to avoid further late penalties). 3. First draft of the return sent to us contained an obvious omission, which we had to ask him to correct (for our 1099-DIVs, he entered the financial institutions' names but failed to enter the dividend amounts). Correction was then made to the return to the tune of another $2,265 that we owed the Fed. 4. Last minute scramble asking for information to go into the tax return that we had already provided to him weeks prior. 5. After #3 above was fixed, we got a revised tax return, which was submitted to the tax authorities. When our State refund check arrived, it was $270 less than we expected. I contacted Jeff to ask why that would be, and his response was: "Not sure how we missed this." What happened was he transposed numbers. We understand that humans make mistakes. And we obviously understand that it's not Jeff Brown's fault that we owe the government what we owe. What I take issue with is that I expect a professional CPA who is entrusted with our family's personal financial information to take it seriously enough to review the information we send to him, and more importantly, to review his work! We are relying on -- correction: paying for -- his expertise. I sent Jeff Brown an email detailing the above and our dismay at the quality of service provided. His response was that each point was debatable (actually, it's 100% true). He maintains our returns were prepared "accurately and without error" (despite the fact the State of California corrected his transposition mistake and reduced our refund accordingly). Then he contradicted himself in the next sentence by saying "You point out that the amount of tax payments that were reported on your tax return were incorrect. I agree - but this error does not result in any harm to you." ... Apart from our State refund being reduced by $270. His mistakes on our return aside,I do not take kindly to his snark. Rather than taking responsibility for anything, he responded to me as if I were his 4-year-old child, saying that he will "completely ignore the email I sent and allow me to re-send my email free of insults." There is a fundamental professional chip missing with this accountant, and every potential client should beware. read more

I have been working with Jeff Brown, CPA for several years now and have enaged with him on two separate businesses. I can also attest to the fact that he is very responsive and helpful and comes up with lots of great (legal) strategies to save on taxes. He is always up to date on the latest changes in tax codes and is proactive about sharing them with his clients. Most of all, he is an extremely personable CPA, hence most enjoyable to work with. Not something one can say of all accountants. :) read more