The first couple years these guys were very average. The level of service dropped each year until…read moretwo years ago when we couldn't get a call or meeting and every email was answered by someone different. Then they fired us with no referral or explanation. We had referred some family members and they found basic math errors with their filing. Very unprofessional! I would not recommend.

I had a terrible experience with Dave at Coastal Tax Advisors. He would belittle me with every…read morequestion I asked him and at the end, after my Corporation sent tens of thousands in tax payments at his direction, he wouldn't file my 2020 return and told me to find another CPA. Totally unprofessional and terrible customer service. Would not recommend.

Based on Brandon's posted reviews, we contacted him to complete our 2025 Federal and State Income…read moreTaxes. We met at his modest Carlsbad office and reviewed our current and previous tax documents setting the stage for him to work on this year's returns. Brandon was able to complete them in a very timely manner working diligently to insure all deductions and credits we were eligible for were addressed. We are so very thankful in finding Brandon and look forward to many years going forward having him prepare our tax returns.

Brandon is great! He is very detailed orientated and honestly does all he can to be sure your taxes…read moreare correct. We do our business and personal taxes with him. I highly recommend.

Starkey Brothers did an awesome job with my Taxes this year! So convenient! All was done…read moreelectronically using their online system at a very competitive price! I would totally recommend using them! Thank you Starkey Bros!!

Working with Grant Starkey of The Starkey Brothers has been one of the best decisions I've made for…read moremy small business. What sets him apart is his commitment to staying current in his education, his attention to detail, and his quick, thoughtful communication. He consistently goes above and beyond, and no question is ever too small. He takes the time to understand your long-term goals and never uses a one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, he personalizes strategies based on your business structure and the bigger picture. Not to mention his incredible team, Natalia Dávila and Stephanie Swift, who make everything with bookkeeping and payroll feel seamless and streamlined. They are fantastic to work with. I recommend Grant and his team to anyone who even mentions the word "taxes" and I will continue to recommend him always. Five stars, without hesitation.

10/10 reliable 10/10 sound tax advise…read more 10/10 customer service 10/10 office staff 10/10 intelligent Mr Evan is rock solid, back in the office - everyone's amazing. So surprisingly reliable like no other, great value and great knowledge base. Knowledge of unique situations in personal and organizational taxes is rooted in firm knowledge, experience and reliability. We have been with Filipovitch and Co for over 5 years.

If you're looking for trustworthy professionalism, I would not recommend you take your business…read morehere. I had a similar experience as other new clients with broken promises, lack of communication, calls and emails not being returned, and tax returns not being done by the deadline. This was the most unprofessional treatment I've ever experienced by an accounting firm.

Alan has been my CPA for 25 years.. He's the best…read more Totally above board guy who knows all there is to know about taxes and irs. He's the best! And Nancy is awesome as well...always helpful..always sweet!

The best!! I have been with Alan for over 15 years. He is as good as it gets. The best CPA I have…read moreever known. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart Alan, for all you have done for me over the years!!! Thank you.. Brad

it's the strangest thing working with these accountants -they act as if you're a pain in their butt…read morewhen you ask questions about your tax return as if you're supposed to know- they are so arrogant- I will never use them again and they are so overpriced - 1100$- for a regular tax return? NO WAY -definitely better and kinder people out there-I guess im not part of the club

I had a very disappointing experience working with John Messina and would not recommend Van Riper &…read moreMessina CPAs based on my experience. I was referred to John due to the complexity of my 2021 tax return, but my return was ultimately prepared by another member of the team. An error on the return later resulted in an IRS audit and over $1,500 in penalties and interest, which I paid in full. Following this, I had significant difficulty getting timely responses or assistance despite multiple follow-ups. Overall, this experience caused me to lose confidence in the firm's attention to detail and client communication. Based on my experience, I would recommend carefully considering other CPA options in the San Diego area.

Competent. Efficient. Great tax advice…read more Strongly recommend their services without reservation. Strong Ethics, simple, clear advice

Peter and his staff have been preparing my business and personal taxes for over 20 years. There has…read morenever been a mistake in filing any returns. My wife and I have received back thousands of dollars in returns do to Peters knowledge in the field of tax preparation. My wife and I still use Tax & Ledger Professionals for our returns even retired in the great state of Tennessee.

I left a one-star review because I couldn't leave a review any lower. Bill and his team and this…read moremost unprofessional, and incompetent people that I have ever had to work with. We had hired a different tax prep company, but in January 2019 we got a notice from them that they had outsourced a bunch of clients to Bill's company. By then I was wrapped up in a major project for a client, so I went with the recommendation. Let's start with our corporate taxes. I had our corporate taxes ready to go on January 23rd, 2019 and I added Sean from Bill's office to our QuickBooks account. I asked for status updates every couple of weeks and never got back a single email. Sean also never accepted the request from QuickBooks to be added to it, so I could see that nothing was being done. The first time I actually heard from Sean is after I called the company that I hired to find out what was going on, this was on April 8th. I heard from Sean twice that day and nothing else. We had several payments that clients had made for work that hadn't been started yet, so we needed to make sure that income was deferred corrected into 2019. I sent that information to Bill multiple times and he never seemed to understand what he needed to do with this information. Our business taxes were eventually done on April 14th after many phone calls and emails to get status updates. I had to assume they were done correctly, as there was no time to double check the work. On our personal taxes; our information was gathered up and sent over on March 8th, 2019. As we had 73 files which had a total size of 36 Megs, I couldn't email the data over, so I uploaded the information to One Drive and had One Drive create a link for the folder, which I sent over to Sean (from Bill's team). Again, I heard nothing when I asked for status updates. When we finally got an email from Bill about what was going on (this was April 8th) the email made it seem like it was doing up a favor by doing our taxes (and that he wouldn't be doing them until April 13th when he was done with his clients that came to his office). We had sent in all the relevant information months before, but his apparent lack of time management meant that our taxes never got done. Bill never figured out how to click on the link that I put in the email to the tax information. At least I must assume that was the problem, as Bill never bothered to tell me why we couldn't download the files that I uploaded for him. On April 12th he told me that I needed to upload the files to his file transfer app. I was using a restaurants Wi-Fi (as I had work to do that day since I wasn't planning on spending the entire day dealing with my taxes) and I kept getting errors from the website that Bill had sent over. The tax firm that I hired in the first place ended up downloaded the files from One Drive and uploaded them via Bill's site since Bill could download the files himself. The week leading up to Tax Day, Bill kept trying to talk us into filing an extension, because I assume he didn't want to do our taxes before April 15th. We kept telling him that an extension wasn't an acceptable option because we had no idea what the estimates where going to be because of all the changes with the tax laws. Like our business taxes, our personal taxes were done on April 14th. I again had to assume they were done correctly, as I didn't have time to sit down and review everything. Having someone do your taxes is supposed to take the stress away from you when it comes to this process. Bill completely failed at this. My stress level went up dramatically, and I have zero confidence that my taxes were done correctly. I would have had less stress if I had simply done them myself, but I didn't have the time which is why I hired someone to do them for me. I'm at the point where I'm going to pay someone else to do them again and file an addendum if/when the taxes that Bill and his team did are wrong. If I had the time, I would have sat in Bill's office and supervised him doing my taxes, but I thought I had a professional doing my taxes; I was wrong. Needless to say, I will never have Bill or Sean ever work on my taxes again; and I'll never hire them to handle any aspect of anything ever again. I've never worked with anyone with such poor time management skills, such poor communications skills, or such an inability to use basic computer skills such as sending an email (emails have subject lines for a reason, any email thread that Bill started has a blank subject line, so I have no idea what emails and responses are to what). I wouldn't trust Bill or Sean with counting the change in a piggy bank much less our taxes which come with legal risk associated with them if they are wrong. If I had known there was an issue in March, I would have simply found another person to handle our taxes. But because I let things go until it was too late, I had no choice but to pay to have work done, which I need to pay to have redone.

Too bad you can't give zero stars. I had a very unpleasant,…read moreunprofessional experience