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    Aldama CPA & Advisor

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    Dimov Tax

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    Dimov Tax has done our taxes since we moved to Texas a few years ago. We had to file in California…read moreand Texas the first year and also had a few complicated situations that required help navigating. Their team is responsive, detailed and very helpful. I plan on continuing to use them and would recommend them for your tax needs.

    This has been the worst experience I have ever had dealing with a tax service. We hired them last…read moreyear to help with our rather complicated taxes that were split between several states, and the entire process has been filled with multiple errors and over looked details. They failed to file important paperwork from another state which resulted in a penalty letter from the IRS. They asked for more paperwork from us, and we sent it but one important piece didn't make it to them and they never followed up asking for it. Now we've received our 2nd IRS warning, and I'm livid that they let the mistake slip through the cracks. I don't pretend to be good at things like this which is why we hire professionals to help with the process. The lack of follow up to the missing document is a failure of due diligence from the company. It's also the first time we've ever had anywhere from 4-6 (maybe more?) people working on one return. Who was responsible for our account? I still have no idea, and I recommend you find someone else this tax season. Editing to add: The company blamed us for their mistake then insinuated that they would not help us unless we took down our bad review. We ended up not having to pay the fine (we had a federally accepted reason to delay filing), and it was because of their mistake that we received the fine. We easily fixed the issue with the IRS directly since the company was unwilling to do the work we paid them thousands for.

    Blaine Gary CPA

    Blaine Gary CPA

    (10 reviews)

    I started an architecture office in 2011 with a passion for design and enthusiasm for the future…read more Everything was great except for my books... I had no idea how to structure a company with regard to the IRS. I was too small of a business for a big CPA practice, yet still wanted to work with a profession who would take the time to make me feel like everything was being handled correctly. Blaine Gary was the solution. I have worked with Blaine for years. In the early days, I would give him and his team boxes of receipts and bank statements and they would make sense of all the chaos. Am my company grew, Blaine was their to offer guidance on how to file certain purchases and even how and when to switch from a Sole Prop to an S-Corp (if you don't know what this means, hire Blaine). Better yet, his knowledge of the tax code saves my company money by not overpaying. I wholeheartedly endorse Blaine Gary, CPA for freelancers and small companies. His honesty and integrity instill confidence in his work and his personality meshes perfectly with the Austin way of life.

    At the end of 2012 and I started looking for a new accountant and man am I glad I found Blaine! I…read moreneed an accountant who can really help me grow my business and handle my tax burden in the smartest way possible. In our first meeting, Blaine spent tons of time finding out about my business and my goals and he's been the only person to really explain to me why I should consider filing as one type of business entity over another. By the time I left his office, I had signed up for his monthly bookkeeping services and his tax services and I am still very happy with my decision. Blaine even referred me to a great financial advisor, who helped me get my retirement accounts in order and on the right track. Blaine is very professional, efficient, organized (I tried to talk him into coming to organize my office :-)) and friendly, and he's always there to answer my questions. I'm so grateful I found Blaine...I highly recommend him to any small business owner!!

    Ellen R Shaffer CPA

    Ellen R Shaffer CPA

    (15 reviews)

    Ellen claims she doesn't treat everyone poorly, only me, but my experience with this CPA has been…read moreanything but enjoyable. I reached out at the very beginning of 2023 for her help to sort through some previous issues with my tax filing a previous year and to catch up my taxes for 2021 and 2022 because I was behind. I expressed to her how important it was that I got the finance stuff under control and it was something I needed to take care of ASAP so I could move through 2023 with better tools. She ensured me she would take care of me so I agreed to work with her. Come April, she barely finished my 2021 taxes and said she was filing an extension for my 2022 taxes. Needless to say, my taxes were filed ON October 15th, which she blamed me for, for not signing the paperwork as soon as she finished it at the end of September, but I just wanted to be able to look over what she did before I submitted which I believe is fair. She said she was setting me up with a payment plan, but my payment plan was never submitted even though she told me it was. She also suggested I file as an s-corp and mentioned this multiple times and I said, "ok, just let me know what you need from me." but nothing ever came of that so I'm sure I'm paying more in self-employment taxes than I need to. I owe the government money for multiple tax years and I received a menacing letter from the IRS to which she responded, "It's not a big deal. That's just a scare tactic." But, it very much IS a big deal to me, my bank account, my business, my goals, etc. Also, it took me texting 3 weeks in a row trying to get ahold of her to ask about these letters from the IRS. I finally got fed up and asked if I needed to find a new CPA so she finally responded that she was recovering from surgery so she didn't respond even though the read receipts showed she saw my texts immediately after I sent them. I specifically asked her if she was familiar with Profit First because I wanted to use that model of accounting and she said she did know it well and we should have a zoom meeting that she could charge me for to talk about it. I agreed thinking I would get the information I needed, but when we got on the call, she stated she actually didn't know anything about Profit First, but she did some googling prior to our talk and then just told me things that I already knew from reading the book. I wanted specific information regarding MY business and the way MY books were, but she just told me generic percentages that didn't even work for me. She repeatedly told me how much time she took out of her personal life to try to learn this just for me as if I owed her for doing her job which she actually lied to me about knowing. I also don't think an accountant learning about another form of accounting is something SO crazy for an accountant to do that it should be brought up over and over, but maybe that's just me. When this all finally came to a head with the IRS documents and her refusing to help me sort it out quickly because it was "no big deal," I asked if the way she was treating me was typical and she then told me no, that it was just me and I am one of the most uncooperative clients she has. (I expressed to her early on that my office days are always Mondays so that is when I can catch up to anything I have missed during the week as I'm out in the field most of the week.) So she would send me a text late on a Wednesday and then text repeatedly if I didn't respond immediately. Even though every time I asked for help, she would claim she was way too busy to respond to me. She always said she had SO many clients to help ,she just didn't have time for me and then if she needed a response from me about something, it had to be right that moment or I became the "difficult client." As a small business owner myself, I would NEVER call someone uncooperative because they didn't text me outside of business hours. And in my opinion, her choice to wait ALL YEAR to start my taxes isn't MY FAULT. If she would have been working on them when they were supposed to be done, she wouldn't have had to rush to get them done by October. My advice to you, if you're someone looking for an experienced CPA who cares about their clients and their money, DON'T HIRE ELLEN. You will lose progress you have made and then be even farther up the river without a paddle and you won't have any idea what to do and she won't care. Hire someone else.

    Ellen is a kind person with a lot of experience. Once she gets going on the work, she is persistent…read moreand meticulous with the process. Having now sent in the tax forms, I have comfort that it was the best return I could have filed. Because she is busy, it is important to keep checking in to make sure things are still progressing; perhaps Ellen needs an assistant to help her, but that's beyond my purview. I trust Ellen and that counts for a lot.

    Aldama CPA & Advisor - businessconsulting - Updated May 2026

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