Questions people ask before they call us

Individual returns start at $175 for a straightforward W-2 filing and most fall between $295 and $650. Business returns start at $1,150 for an S corporation. We quote your fee in writing before starting, based on your prior-year return, and it does not change unless the facts do.

For a W-2 return with the standard deduction, a preparer is genuinely enough and we will say so. A CPA earns the difference when there is a business, a rental, equity compensation, foreign income, a life event, or anything that has drawn a letter from the IRS — and a CPA can represent you before the IRS, which an unenrolled preparer cannot.

60-15 Roosevelt Avenue, Suite 3B, in Woodside, two blocks from the 61st Street–Woodside station. The 7, E, M and R trains and the Long Island Rail Road all stop within a short walk, and there is metered parking on Roosevelt Avenue.

The office is in Woodside and most clients come from western Queens — Sunnyside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Astoria, Long Island City, Maspeth, Corona, Rego Park, Forest Hills and Ridgewood. We also work with clients across Brooklyn, Manhattan and the wider metro area, and remotely with people who moved away and stayed with us.

English, Spanish, Tagalog, Nepali, Bengali, Korean and Mandarin across the office. Tell us which you would prefer when you call and we will schedule you with the right person.

No. Documents through the secure portal, a video call to review, and electronic signature all work, and a good number of clients we now see only once a year. But the door is open and plenty of people prefer to sit down.

As far back as necessary. Refunds can only be claimed for three years, but filing older years still matters — it stops the failure-to-file penalty accruing and it replaces any substitute return the IRS filed on your behalf, which will have given you no deductions at all.

Yes, and bring it in before you do anything else. Reading the letter and telling you what it actually is costs nothing. Most are notices rather than audits and many are answered with one well-documented response.

Yes. Multi-state filings are routine here — New Jersey and Connecticut especially, and we handle nexus questions for online sellers reaching further than that.

October. By April everything that could have changed the outcome has already happened. The planning conversation in the autumn is the one that actually moves the number.

Yes, year-round. We do close the book on new individual returns around the end of March, because taking work we cannot review properly serves nobody — but we will file an extension for you and prepare the return in April or May.

Documents move through an encrypted client portal rather than email, files are retained under the confidentiality obligations that bind licensed CPAs, and we do not sell or share client information with anyone.