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    I can't believe 5 Years have gone by since the last review. Shame on me. !! Wow time sure does fly…read moreby. I still go to EER services and I have actually gone ther for 20 + years. Edgar Ruano gives great advice. I opened up a small buisness 5 years ago and he help me with all the corperation paperwork and setting up ADP. I think everyone should have a trustworthy contact person in their lives Especially when dealing with your finances. Edgar Edgar E Ruano has help me with sensitive Corporate manners and Family W2's for years. I am excellent in the field of service I work in but I am definatley NOT an ACCOUNTANT and thats what Edgar & his team is for. He also gives excellent financial advise as a father would to his children. I trust this guy 100%

    I debated on writing a review because of current events but I don't want people being ripped off!…read more My boyfriend had his taxes done here right before the pandemic hit. We waited more than two hours to be seen, there was no one in the waiting room. all of the employees were goofing off and were offended and upset when I asked if they weren't seeing clients. When we were finally seen by the main tax preparer, older Ruano (he's not an accountant) he was rude, fell asleep while entering the taxes. He was flirtatiously inappropriate with one his employees (skinny girl). I was very uncomfortable. There is confidential paperwork laying around everywhere, copies of taxes with social security numbers on them, identity theft waiting to happen. When I asked if they shredded their docs Older Ruano showed me a box (he shoves them in a box under his desk! After almost a full day to get my boyfriend taxes done he was overcharging him for a simple W2 that wasn't getting a return!!!! oh btw if you want him to make up receipts and make up expenses... even a fake babysitter he can get you that at an extra cost of course! He did offer that too! Unbelievable! Report this business! He abuses his customers in time of hardship, and lots of other crooked stuff going on in there!

    Balderson & Company

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    Bucktown

    First, Andrew is, as someone else pointed out in his review, a super nice guy. That is, until he…read morerefused to accept responsibility for the penalties and interest (over $7000 US) I have to pay because Andrew neglected to file my personal income tax return by the deadline. I learned that Andrew and his team had not filed my income tax return through a letter from the IRS (March 2024) and then a letter (April 2024) from the Illinois Department of Revenue. Meanwhile, I received three emails from Andrew since the October 15, 2023 tax filing deadline that he missed. In none of these emails did Andrew inform me that he had not filed my tax return. In fact, in an email he sent me a few weeks before I received the IRS letter, he asked about getting together to talk about my 2024 taxes. Now, that the penalties are due, and he realized that he forgot to file my tax return, Andrew is hiding behind a "you did not sign the form" argument. His emails show that he simply forgot to file the 2023 tax return. It is how you handle your mistakes that speak to your integrity. From what I have seen thus far, Andrew lacks the integrity that a business and individual need and deserve in an accountant for the following reasons: Now, that the penalties are due: Andrew is hiding behind a "you did not sign the form" argument when in fact, his emails show that he simply forgot to file the 2023 tax return, AND He is suggesting that we amend my taxes and include some schemes that a few other accountants call "Tik Tok Accounting" because these schemes are advertised on Tik Tok as a way of lowering taxes. I am all for lowering my taxes but I do not want to wind up in tax court, as the other reviewer did, or worse. I am writing this so you can make an informed decision. Andrew is a super nice guy- we can agree on that. He made a mistake- everyone makes mistakes- we can agree on that. His actions and statements, after I informed him that he did not file my tax return, speak to his lack of integrity. I am sure that you will come to agree on that when he, inevitably, makes a mistake (remember, everyone makes mistakes). I was Andrew's client for several years. I paid all of his fees- of course, none of the fees, including the one I paid for filing my 2023 personal taxes, were refunded. In fact, there was no offer of refund, and no offer of paying the penalties and interest now due (over $7,000) because of his negligence.

    Andrew provides the benefit of a big-firm background with the attention to detail you would expect…read moreonly at a small firm. With a very helpful staff, Andrew makes the time to explain the intricacies of the ever-changing tax implications. I have worked with Andrew on behalf of a wide variety of my clients, and he has provided significant value and saved my clients at all levels of the tax and bookkeeping process. Cannot recommend him highly enough!

    Robert Barak - financialadvising - Updated May 2026

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