About 5 years ago I reached out to Pacific Tax (Kurt Romischer) to help me with a more complex…read moreinvestment rental property tax filing for that year. Kurt helped break down the complex tax portfolio and walked me thru each section which was very helpful for someone with little IRS tax knowledge. This year Kurt has introduced a personalized tax filing summary video with the filing package which is really helpful to understand your tax filing situation and outcome. Kurt is very friendly, thorough, and easy to work with. I highly recommend Pacific Tax West Seattle's services.

What a lovely place. As a independent self employed artist it is terribly scary to embark on your…read moreown business and deal with the tax shenanigans. These associates were incredibly detailed and wonderfully communicative during this process. Such a huge relief to have capable professionals handle these intimidating ordeals for me. So many appreciative kudos to Sara and Kurt! Highly recommend!

UPDATE: :) you as well. Exactly, see response from owner. Lol…read more... Pretentious, rude, and unhelpful service. Surprised as the reviews here are stellar. Definitely chose not to work with them from my initial consultation. Maybe it was a fluke, hopefully for others it was as this was service that made me feel like a bother more than a customer.

I'm a general contractor and I have some professional skills, that aid me in my business, but…read moreunfortunately bookkeeping/taxes are not in my repertoire. Same for my wife that is a baker. Edwin and his team, through diligence and hard work, methodically went through years of our mess to find thousands of dollars' worth of missed tax benefits. To date, Aldaris Group has paid for themselves by correcting one year's worth of Federal taxes, and they're still going, we're even looking at state taxes. Edwin has some great ideas to restructure my company, as well. I can tell you that it wasn't easy to amend past years of taxes, and I had to put some work in on my end as well, but my wife and I are better off now than before we hired Aldaris Group. They are worth every penny!

This local business has provided me some great services over the years. I discovered them when…read moreconsidering keeping a home as a rental, I wanted to understand same of the tax implications as I created my own financial model on the potential returns over time and benefits and challenges. Peter was more than happy to provide me some advice. After that I decided to have my yearly taxes processed here. My taxes are somewhat basic and I had always just used Turbo Tax, but was never sure if was missing some deduction. As it turned out, the Butzerin version was more advantageous to me and I've utilized their services ever since.

Peter Butzerin yelled at me and told me I was fired and then told me to f*** off on the phone…read more ecause I walked out of his office after my 6th visit telling him to let me know if you ever find the documents you've now lost twice. I gave him everything he requested and he lost the documents. I stopped in there on 5 different occasions over 52 days trying to get a simple tax return done before being fired. Everything he will say to respond to this is a lie that he likely believe. Felt like like Donald Trumps apprentice. He has that vibe. Human embryos behind his desk on a poster etc... glad he didn't get my money after all. Yuck, I hope he finds the help he needs.

Excellent service from Abigail at 1st Choice Tax. She helped me understand the process and walk me…read morethrough itemization, ultimately saving me $3K in taxes owed. She is extremely respectful, friendly, and made the tax filing process so much easier for me. Additionally, I love that this business is woman owned and uses local artists to paint the windows and do signage. :)

I dropped by 1st Choice Tax in White Center, hoping they could create a pdf for emailing,…read morephotocopying, etc. They kindly obliged and I've been back several times. Always very sweet.

I had the unfortunate experience of working with Chris Price. My experience was frustrating and I…read morefelt that Chris Price was both sexist and dishonest. Unfortunately after multiple calls to HR Block Corperate my issue was never resolved. I am small business owner filing taxes for the first time. Our first meeting went well as he told me that my tax total would be under $100, he asked me to come back in the next week to bring one more piece of information. I came into the office the second week, he forgot that I was filing for two years and then insisted that my taxes were thousands. He was condescending, encouraged me to pay my taxes with a credit card and informed me that signing up for a payment plan with IRS was ill advised that they would seize my bank accounts. When I asked him questions, he asked if I had read his book that he gave me the visit before or give me short uninformative answers and stare at me. At one point he stared at me for 30 seconds. I was very uncomfortable and regret moving forward with filing my taxes with Chris Price. At the end of the visit he asked me to come in for a third visit for a simple filing. When my taxes arrived the amount listed is different than what he had filed for... this has been a horrible experience. What's more disappointing is that HR Block has not follow up with me after multiple calls to their corporate office.

I followed Chris Price from the California Avenue H&R block to this Delridge office, because he's…read morethe best in the business! I got to know the manager, Dave and also the receptionist Robert - they're all warm and welcoming. Chris handles so much for me - biz taxes, personal taxes. My elderly mom brings her taxes to Chris, too (she likes to tell him he's like a son!) We are grateful!!

I am a real estate agent and I had questions on the deductibility of my vehicle expenses and if I…read moreshould lease rather than own. Andrew provided a detailed explanation and a handy excel spreadsheet showing both scenarios. Andrew was great!

Called their Seattle office and the gal that answered the phone was so rude I didn't even bother to…read morefollow through with leaving a message for the accountants. I run a public relations company so I know how you should treat a potential client, she apparently did not. I don't know if they need to pay her more than minimum wage or get her better training, but either way she is not an asset to the company. Taking my business elsewhere.

Hunt Jackson is more interested in charging for every minute than they are providing good customer…read moreservice. Never again!

Rick O'Leary and Company 650 S. Orcas St., Ste. 215…read moreSeattle, WA 98108 new office

Fast and helpful service, I hate doing my own taxes, they made the process painless. For tax to…read morerelax next year!

Had a hard time with the guys at HR Blockhead. First, they charged me double what Liberty Tax…read morecharges even tho my return was much simpler. Then they wouldn't take my check because the guy said he didn't know what the numbers at the bottom of the check meant. At first I was embarrassed for the guy, but that turned into concern when I realized that this was the same guy who was processing my return. In the end I was comforted by the fact that I could always go back to Liberty.

I initially chose not to post the accountant's name but here I am in November and I'm still waiting…read moreon a return of several thousand dollars. The IRS is backed up on amended returns but I would not have had to overpay by thousands of dollars and wait over 6 month's to get it back if I had never met this lady! Kanokwan (Kay) Kammachatk is the "professional" that screwed up my taxes! So just know, that's what they "stand behind".

Warning! No wonder why they have a low rating, we have had the same negative experience as many…read moreothers! There is no CPA in this company. Charming at first, but Stacie turned out to be unreliable, dismissive and deceitful. Often doesn't reply to emails in a timely manor, doesn't cc quarterly reports, year end (state and IRS) forms..etc. Rarely notified us when money was taken out of bank accounts to pay quarterly taxes. Recently was our last straw. Above is a picture of a form she doctored up and then lied about it! Doesn't respond to emails but when she does, the replies are in cryptic shorthand, hard to understand and its it's obvious she doesn't even read the origional messages. Recently found out she didn't register our W-2s in 2016. The IRS dinged us with a $1,300 fine. She swore she filed them. She told us to come in and sign some papers. I realized she had our income wrong. Went back and forth with messages to clarify. After her rude telephone and email responses, she had me in tears. Then she didn't respond to when we should come in and sign paperwork. After days of no response (emailed and called numerous times) her exact words were "what do you want from me?" I asked for copies of paperwork and a meeting, she said the next day at 1. I Said OK. The next message from her was what time? I said at 1 as you said. She said no, it would be later that day or Thursday. I said Thursday. At 7 the night before she cancelled I said OK, Monday at 10. She said OK My husband and I showed up at 10. Peter showed us in, then called Stacie to meet with us. She came out, obviously had just woke up (they rent an apartment above their office) and told us we were early. Told us we had changed the appointment (which we didn't). We left for an hour, got some coffee and sat in our car so she could gather herself. Came back, no apology. Had a difficult conversation. She didn't want me to open my computer to verify our income. Was throwing numbers all over the place, contradicting herself. Declared she had filed our W-2s on time. Said she had sent a letter to the IRS. Why didn't she let us know she had sent a letter? Why didn't she cc us? Why did she tell us we had to come in and sign paperwork when she had already sent a letter??? Moved on to other subjects, she was rude and not forthcoming. Our business didn't generate alot of money but was still important to us and we want to make sure we compiled with the IRS filings. THEN SHE ACCUSED us of hiding money! I had no idea where this was coming from? We let her know every dime was accounted for. She was rude and snidely chuckled. She had no idea of our past success. Had no knowledge we had previously been successful in flipping two houses. She didn't know we were working on a third and almost paid off million+ home. In addition to the houses, the small business we started was based on integrity. We dealt with appraising items in clients homes and built our reputation on trust. We often found valuable objects, jewelry, cash, silver, gold, etc.. and always notified the clients. Even found 15K of gold coins hidden in a fridge that went straight back to the owners. They gave us a finders fee (that we declared if course!) We recently ran in to a customer that has tears her eyes because we had closed our business, said she had put us in her will to help with her assets. I had tears because of the mistreatment from Stacie, our clients had tears on their eyes because of sentimentality. For Stacie to question us in any way whatsoever is a total insult! After being late an hour for our meeting, she cut it short, saying she had stuff to do. I reminded her that she had her time wrong, then yelled at us to leave. I let her know when we were leaving that we experienced the same things as others and fully understood why their BBB and other reviews were rated as low. A few days later, went over the paperwork she gave us, only to see she had doctored the W-2 forms! Pictured are the two copies with contradicting dates. She sat their, tried to call us liars while she was the liar! I sent her a pic of the above photo a few weeks ago calling her on her deception, worried about our fine. No response so now am warning others. If Stacie could roll out of bed before 10 AM on a work day, maybe she could do a better job.

Incompetent, Unprofessional and Unresponsive…read more Short version: Never responded to emails. Kept telling me "two more weeks" for MONTHS! Was hesitant to even review the tax forms with me before I signed them, and now I know why. She had NO clue what she was talking about, couldn't answer simple tax questions and ended up not inputting the correct form I sent her! Stacie is INCOMPETENT!!! Long Version: I had my (very simple) taxes done here. Brought them in months ahead of the April 17th tax deadline. Was told it would take approximately 2 weeks to do once I had gathered all the necessary paper work. After emailing everything over I asked for verification that she received everything she needed. No response. Several weeks go by, I call and get apologies up and down, "it will take two more weeks." That goes by, and in the mean time I get a corrected form from the bank and I send that in asking for confirmation she has received it and will incorporate this update and again, nothing. Radio silence. Another week goes by, I call again. "So sorry, it's just sooo busy. It will be another week." Ok, no problem, I get it. We still have several weeks to tax day. A week and a half later. Nothing. Call again. "Just soooo busy" we need another week. At this point it's getting close to the deadline. Call again! Still not ready!! Finally, TWO DAYS BEFORE TAX DEADLINE taxes are finally done. Too bad they weren't done right!! That form I sent her....didn't incorporate it. Did she get it? Yup. Just "got lost". This is a tax "professional" that just "lost" a client's tax document! I asked to review the completed taxes and asked multiple times if this form was incorporated I just got blank stares. She told me she was doing me a favor by reviewing the forms and she didn't have time for these questions. Typically she would have people make an appointment in June. Are you kidding me? You can't walk me through a 1040EZ to make sure my taxes were done right, which they were NOT. Nope....That's "additional". You just want me to sign it without double checking anything.....I see why. You don't want people calling you out on your shoddy work. To be fair, they reimbursed my filing fee...So I guess I got what I paid for. Nothing.