Very disappointing experience. Dave promised many things the company could help me with and delivered on none of them. It felt like instead of getting help with taxes he was trying to make a mess for me with employees and the IRS. If I were any of you there are plenty of reputable accounting companies to choose from and would not waste my time with this company. They filed a corporate tax return when I was a sole prop. Gave wrong numbers of tax liability because they were unaware that we only pay sales tax in California sales not nationwide Communication was very limited and when I had questions no one seemed to have the expertise to answer them. read more

If I could give negative stars, I would give as many negative stars as I could! Unfortunately my family got their personal and business taxes done with Peninsula Accounting for 6 years from 2010 to 2015. In that time, my family was told that they owed OVER $169,000.00 for federal tax returns and OVER $28,000.00 for state tax returns and I didn't even include amounts due from 2010 returns because I don't have them readily available. After switching to an EA (Enrolled Agent), we amended 3 years of taxes (I wish we could have amended more) and received refunds for overpayment of $36,726.98 from the government and $15,095 from the state of California ($51,821.98 total). Additionally, they charged us over $1,000 each year to process our taxes. Our new EA only charges us $490 each year. DO NOT USE PENINSULA ACCOUNTING! read more

Payroll is the best! Debra is always on top of it and any question I throw at her, she can answer thoroughly, correctly and timely! I am so glad we chose Peninsula Accounting for our payroll services. read more

On an April Sunday, 2011, a day before Monday's federal tax day, Susan Haas's associate phoned us to tell us we owed $117,000 to the fed and that, inexplicably, she had reported this while filing for extension. We were struggling through the downturn and this information was something like being hit by a car whilst you have no insurance. We began the process of selling our house & fired our beloved assistant. Then a friend referred us to Burr Pilger Mayer, who took one look at the returns, and said (a) has Haas pulled the returns to look at them again? (Answer: no.) (b) that $117,000 is very suspicious & we think we can make it go away. I hired them to comb through the returns. It was full of errors generated by the new software Haas was using. When I asked Susan to interact with BPM, she wouldn't: after a number of emails in which she displayed little but hostility, I broke down the things BPM were saying & presented them to her as my own knowledge, and in that way was able to persuade her to accept that this return was wrong and she had to do something about it. In the end it took 6 months to sort out and a lot of money paid to BPM, who were marvelous (and we're still with them). Susan then attempted, twice, to charge us again for the work she had to put in to straighten out her own errors. I refused. We owed the fed what I had calculated, which was about $17,000. At the end of it all, in the fall, we then discovered yet more problems: Haas had failed entirely to file our corporate returns that year, and we were due to be fined for that. At that point she admitted the new failure & paid what was due. I have all the emails. Haas's behavior throughout was passive-aggressive - her very first response was to lecture us on saving, and try to turn the issues back on us. Not pulling the returns & examining them for errors until under pressure to do so, was grossly incompetent. During this time, what we observed was that her office was little but chaos & bad interpersonal relationships. I also consider the attempt to double-charge unethical. Had I the money, I'd have called in an attorney. It was a classic nightmare: it took some time to climb out, and the impact of this episode on my family was considerable. I considered leaving this review on Yelp, but could not face doing so for a long time. In my 30 years in business, I've rarely experienced incompetence like this. Dreadful, start to finish. read more

This firm is disreputable, not concerned with ethics or the law. I always held accountants in high esteem based on experiences and my family members who are CPA's. When our long time accountant retired he referred us to Peninsula Accounting. Right from the first weeks there were inconsistencies in their word and actions. David Haas lies with regularity and takes no responsibility for this firms constant failures. Lost our tax documents, tore others, refused to return our documents after we fired him. They are extremely unorganized and rude in every respect. Davis a Haas and a Crystal Staley and everyone I ever spoke with there, are dishonest, and incompetent. They collect accounts, deal in bulk and could care less about truth or accuracy. They sent our sensitive, private information to an email address they knew to have been hacked out of retaliation for having been called on their total lack of ethics and competence. Both Haas and Staley then involved themselves in our marital separation by sending information to one they blocked deliberately from the other. These people are criminals. Stay far away from this wretched group of incompetents who should and may be, thrown out of the business. read more

Debra gets 5 stars - this review is for the rest of the office. From day 1 there have been myriad excuses, miscommunications, mistakes, etc. They made excuses for the first 6 months we were with them as to why we weren't getting our monthly billing up & running. We got those ironed out after a bit, but have had billing issues all year, which they haven't been able to fix, as well as a mistake on our 2015 return. I have completely lost confidence in them and am going elsewhere. read more

If you own a business and don't have or in the market for a new accountant, this is her. I have been running a company for a long time now and have had my fair share of accountants. Although my past accountants were good, I never felt like my exact questions were completely answered or I was getting the best advice. When I found Susan she changed all that. I feel comfortable talking with her and asking her questions, questions she has answers to. With a wealth of experience, she was able to save me more money than ever. Most of all, you really feel taken care of when they're on the job. I am sincerely thankful to Susan and her excellent staff. read more

Peninsula Accounting has done my family's tax return for the last three years and has been as accurate on the details as they are a pleasure to work with. I had a I.R.S issue regarding a stock trade that I thought was a major finical mistake, but Susan helped me work through it, and with her knowledge and experience it ended up to be an oversight! I will be sticking with Peninsula Accounting and highly recommend working with them. read more

Debra and team are superb. They are extremely responsive and helpful with even the most complicated tax questions for business AND personal taxes. You can count on Debra to dedicate herself to providing the best tax services she possibly can and she is a gem to work with. From my experience and observing her working style, I find Debra to be extremely knowledgeable in understanding IRS/EDD/SSA processes and she is also very organized! Thanks Peninsula Accounting! read more

Thanks for Hannah！ The tax return she did for me is extremely fast, Peninsula can provide the best accounting services ever! You should be proud of your excellent employees! read more

I hired with Susan Haase for two years when I was working as an Independent Consultant. The first year was fine and she set me up to make quarterly payments based on estimated income for the following year. During the next year, I called her four times to make sure that the payments were large enough to cover my balance so that I would not have an enormous tax bill at the end of the year. Four times! She said that I would owe some money, but it wouldn't be that much, probably $8 - 10K. Well, when tax time came, not only did I owe almost $18,000 (!?!) because my quarterly SEP payments were WAY too low, but she also had the audacity to charge me twice (2x!) as much for doing my taxes than she did the previous year. She explained that it was more work, however, I only had one source of income versus the several sources that needed to be reviewed the previous year. She charged me more because I made more money. I feel that she took advantage of me. I will never go here again. Susan is a nice person but she did a lousy job and put me in a terrible tax situation. read more

Susan does our tax return every year. She asks good questions and makes sure we get all the deductions we are eligible for. She helps us to minimize our tax liability and ensures we break even or get a refund each year. She always answers the phone or calls us back promptly whenever we have any questions. I recommend Susan for both personal and corporate tax returns. read more

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