Joe Dwek has been our company accountant and trusted business mentor and advisor for many years. Under Joe's mentor-ship we have grown our company from 1 employee to over 50. His sage advice has guided us through good times and challenging times. Joe's encouragement and positive attitude have instilled the confidence to move forward in a dynamic and changing business climate. Joe also handled our personal family tax planning. He is formulated a strategy that required a unique specialization and Joe recommended other skilled professionals to oversee the process while always remaining involved. As an entrepreneur Joe has a unique ability to understand business from small business to publicly traded and regulated businesses. Joe is not only a brilliant accountant; he is a gregarious outgoing person that truly cares about people and that is evidenced by his many philanthropic and charitable acts. I highly recommend Joe C. Dwek as an accountant, business advisor, personal tax specialist. read more

I walked into Joe's office 12 years ago with a shoe box full of bills for my business. Joe spent weeks working on my personal and corporate taxes and not only got me back on track but he saved me much more money than I paid him to do the returns, I highly recommend Joe and his team for corporate or personal tax returns. read more

I came to Mr. Dwek's professional accountancy on an acquaintance's recommendation. The task was to prepare and file my self-employment annual tax return. My situation had moderate complexity for an individual tax return, but was nowhere as bad as a corporate tax return. Things started off on the wrong foot when I spoke to the secretary on the phone - she talked in an abrupt, rude way, had trouble listening to the spelling of my name, and misunderstood what kind of appointment I was requesting. Later on, the same sort of abrupt communication happened between Mr. Dwek and I. Throughout the process of preparing my tax return, Mr. Dwek was impatiently asking me for the next item, the next set of numbers, next, and criticizing my lack of organization and not having added up totals for all the precise categories ahead of time. At the moments when I was dictating things, I caught the occasional mistakes he made while keying in numbers (such as 14000 instead of 1400) and misspelling words like "computor" - this did not inspire my confidence in the quality of his work. He also scolded my itemized income and expense entries for being too precise and time-consuming. Financial manipulations are already stressful in general; the way he treated me only added to the stress. The service performed for me on this day came out to a $450 professional fee for 1.0 hour of work. Now if I had learned something new from his expertise (such as how to use expenses and deductions more effectively), this consultation might have been worth the money. But I had prepared my own tax return in previous years and was familiar with most of the forms (except 1 or 2 new ones due to recently changed situation), and unfortunately his expertise added no value compared based on the knowledge I came in with. In retrospect, I was better off reading, calculating, and filling out the CRA forms directly by myself. To top it off, his accounting office only takes cheques as payment, not debit or credit. I don't normally carry a chequebook - c'mon, you charge me all this money and provide no easy way to pay you? In the end, I am the one who made the mistake in choosing to come here. I let my guard down, and got my just desserts. Caveat emptor read more