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    So fin'eto. Posh lime green. Thx, for the cash back sir'z.

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    Extremely professional service. They handled some past year tax issues for me an took such a huge…read moreweight off my shoulders. Really happy I found them after my new move to MA.

    Bumped from two stars to three for these reasons:…read more 1) The company took responsibility for a mistake that triggered a $200 fine from IRS, and refunded me for it. Thanks. 2) I was able to reach my accountant on the phone easily during the peak season, and he gave me a quick answer in a few hours - during the weekend. Still, my experience was less than satisfactory. (1) The return that the team prepared had two mistakes, which I spotted and saved myself 6,000$. This is the exact opposite of H&R Block Second Look - I was the second look! (2) There was an additional mistake that triggered a review by IRS, which costed me $200 (refunded by Dimov, as mentioned). You don't want to get reviewed by IRS. (3) Even if I started uploading my documents early, big stuff in February and March 3 (with some small updates for few hundred dollars coming later), the return was ready only on April 6, and the signature docs only on April 8. Add the weekend, and we got REALLY close to the deadline. They even suggested filing for an extension... due to their own delay. (4) My accountant was incorrect about the safe harbor and about AMT cost basis. It took multiple messages to clarify the issues, and one question was eventually escalated to his manager, who initially missed the point and gave me an unrelated answer. After multiple messages, where I quoted the tax law, we were at last in agreement. (5) The free Q4 2025 tax estimate took a month (from Nov 7 to Dec 4) after being bounced from one person to another. I ended up doing it myself and it was just double-checked by their team. (6) The team used this Q4 estimate in my return, instead of the actual values from the previous year, requiring me to scan the return line by line to find incorrect data. (7) Through the process, I received messages from 13 different people. Only one of them appears on LinkedIn or any Google search. Draw your own conclusion about this. (8) They offered me a tax-estimate package where they would help me estimate my quarterly payments. This was priced as 3 hours at 360$. Does it take 3 hours to scrape a few bank statements for data (AI is really good and fast) or 3 hours to run their software on these numbers? Come on, this is 2026. Really, not what I was expecting.

    Water Street Associates - A specialized tax service of Water Street Associates that caters exclusively to US Expats across the globe and foreign nationals

    Water Street Associates

    (11 reviews)

    Financial District

    3rd Edit: Wow I never expected this much attention on someone who's not a client. You really spent…read more12 edits and spanning 4 days just to say I will never be a client. Don't worry I already said in my first edit that I will never have the pleasure of knowing your service. This should issue should have been closed a long time ago ending with my original review of your intake service call, but glad to know you're spending so much of your precious time disputing my yelp review. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Edit: I don't recall ever asking for a free 1 hour consultation. I simply asked if you guys could help me to which again a simple no would have sufficed because no matter how simple it was there would be no time, right? If there was no intention of taking on my case there wouldn't be need for you to clarify that you had a $350/hr fee and that you can't put other businesses on hold for me. Again there was no misunderstanding here, it was blatant disrespect in the crudest fashion. I'd understand if I caught you on a bad day, I'm a person too, but to keep justifying your tone and behavior is frankly insulting. I did reach out via chat first and received an immediate unavailable which prompted me that it might have been an answering bot and wanted to see if that was the case -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit: I called in for an inquiry, if you are busy or I inquired too late you can simply say no sorry we are unable to take your case, which is perfectly acceptable. I did not appreciate the condescending tone of telling me if I had came to you guys earlier, completely unnecessary. Finally you do not have to appreciate my review but your business is viewed as a whole from start to finish and that includes the inquiry process. You might be the best at what you do but because of this experience I will never have the pleasure of knowing that service. Hope this helps. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Called in and had a pretty terrible time with the person on the phone. I was asking if they are able to help me with an individual tax filing, and was replied with "we are at capacity". Perfectly reasonable explanation so I said "oh okay so you guys are busy", to which the person on the phone said "well we'd need need to file an extension and the fees that are associated with that would have to be calculated afterwards..." I was confused why I'd need an extension since it's 2 weeks till the deadline still and got hit with "well we have 500 clients we're trying to get out the door and if you had came to us earlier..." how many people that their firm is trying to get out the door seems irrelevant to my inquiry. They also said "well we charge $350 an hour and I can't put my other clients on hold for an hour just for your case" So basically I'm not paying them enough to have the dedicate even 1 hour, and doesn't matter how much it is an hour if I agree to it then I should also get the same level of service as everyone else. But again if you don't have time that's totally understandable I told them that a simple "we don't have time" would have been an adequate response, and it still would have been perfectly reasonable but instead of just telling me a straight answer they kept trying to justify why they can't help me with my filing and how busy they are, and how many clients they have. All seems pretty irrelevant to what I was originally calling for, ultimately I got a "Well I'm just gonna say we don't have time and leave it at that.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    I've worked with Water Street Associates the last few years and I can't recommend them enough. As a…read moresmall business owner taxes were starting to get too tedious for me to do on my own and I have been happy with having them take care of taxes for me. Michael and Didi were quick to clearly and politely respond to any questions I had regarding the tax process. If you are looking to have your taxes done correctly, in a timely manner, and reduce the stress of handling taxes on your own you should seek them out.

    Charles P. King, CPA

    Charles P. King, CPA

    (22 reviews)

    Made several mistakes on our tax return that took a long time to sort out. TurboTax has been…read morecheaper and more accurate.

    TLDR: If you have a very basic tax return or if you are someone who is so wealthy that you often…read morefind people bending over to kiss your feet, Chuck King may provide adequate tax services. If you're anywhere in between, I would recommend looking elsewhere. I was reluctant to write this review because Chuck actually seems like a nice guy who probably got some bad advice from a business magazine in 1987 and took it as gospel--the advice being something along the lines of focusing on wealthy people or people who can do the most for you in return and not wasting much time on the "small folk". That may have worked 25 years ago, but isn't a great philosophy in the Internet age where everyone has a voice. I made an appointment to file my annual taxes with Chuck at least a month and a half before the April 15th deadline. The appointment went pretty well for the most part. He seemed friendly enough and confident in his abilities. My return had a small handful of complications that made it a bit more involved than a basic filing, but nothing earth shattering. There were about 3 or 4 things Chuck needed to research how to file before we finalized the return. That is totally fine. Tax law is complicated and I don't expect professionals to have all of the answers offhand. He told me we could leave things 98% complete and he would figure out how to tie up the loose ends later and confirm with me once everything was complete. He offered to let me pay when the taxes were filed, but I opted to pay on the spot. I'm not sure if this had any impact on what transpired next. It started off normal at first. Chuck would call me to check in every two days or so to inform me of his progress on closing out the open items on my filing. Then he began to go dark on me. I started having to call him for updates. He was not apologetic at all--he was actually frustrated that I was bothering him by checking in on a service that I paid for but didn't receive. He told me his methodology is as follows: for every filing he can't complete on the spot, he puts it into a pile towards the back of his office. When he has downtime, he works on the outstanding items in order from "most important client" to "least important client". These are his words, not mine. As you may have guessed, I was a very low priority/low income client to him and he made that very clear numerous times. To make a long story short(er), I went through a series of very painful emails, phone calls and in-person visits with Chuck to get my filing pushed through. The weaker I was on the phone, the more he tried to bully me, but once I started to (mildly) berate him a bit, he seems to regain some sense and started to act. Some people to respond better to scolding than gentle pushing, and Chuck seems to be one of those guys unfortunately. Chuck literally dragged this out until the 11th hour. Even though my appointment was relatively early in tax season, I had to go to his office the day of the deadline to ensure he filed it. And I had to take the initiative to show up--he certainly didn't seem that concerned about it (after all, I make peanuts--why would the IRS care about me?). Look I get it. People make mistakes. People are busy. People don't have all the answers. But what makes it worse in Chuck's case is that he was never apologetic about it for one second. There was never a "sorry you had to chase me down for the last 6+ weeks" or a "I swear, the service here is much better than this". I just felt like I was bothering him the whole time. I really wanted to like Chuck and there were many times I would look at him and see the "good guy" in him. I don't think his accounting skills are inadequate or that he was out to get me. But unfortunately for him, you can't put someone through what he put me through and be considered "good at your job". One star.

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