Did not answer. After a few weeks, I called and heard a message saying they are not accepting new…read moreclients

Belinda is amazing. I've been working with her for over 5 years. She is extremely knowledgable and…read morepatient. I highly recommend her services 100%!

If you are looking for top-tier tax planning and preparation, Roslyn and her team are absolutely…read morephenomenal. I came to them with a pretty overwhelming and highly complex tax situation that required digging through multiple years of past transcripts. Roslyn didn't just handle it; she completely took the stress out of the process. She was incredibly thorough--catching missing documents, identifying potential deductions I would have never known about, and actually taking the time to outline a solid tax strategy for my future filings. What truly makes Roslyn different from other CPAs I've encountered is her patience. She has this amazing ability to take complicated tax jargon and break it down so it actually makes sense. Her experience and track record speak for themselves, but it's her personable approach to getting the work done that makes her the best in the industry. I couldn't be happier with the results and highly recommend her to anyone!

I've been going to Roslyn Blackwell for about 10 years now, and I honestly wouldn't trust anyone…read moreelse with my taxes. She has always made the entire process simple, clear, and stress free. Taxes can be overwhelming, but Roslyn has a way of explaining everything so it actually makes sense. She is always friendly, polite, and extremely knowledgeable. You can tell she truly cares about her clients and takes pride in what she does. Every year she is consistent, professional, and efficient, and I always leave feeling confident that everything was handled properly. It's rare to find someone this reliable and easy to work with. I'm very grateful to have found her, and I will continue coming to Roslyn for many years to come. I highly recommend her to anyone looking for someone trustworthy and excellent at what they do.

6 month follow-up update…read more. I know you may have been waiting with bated breath, so I'll try my best to keep this short. After 20+ additional emails (between both parties), we were finally able to receive our federal and state abatements from 2024. While this is good news and we are pleased with the outcome, it does not negate the unpleasant experience. After the last review, they took note and designated someone to call the IRS on our behalf, instead of repeatedly sending papers in the mail that the IRS would never receive. After receiving the federal abatement, we then had to ask them to help with the state abatement. In case you aren't aware (since I was initially not educated on this matter), you are allowed a 1-time federal and state abatement. Meaning, if you are in good standing, they will erase your fines, but not the interest. Some additional notes: 1. They are a global team, as their new name implies (Unified Global). This means that your team may be located in various time zones and countries. 2. Their software is straightforward and simple to follow, which I did appreciate. 3. Their timelines for filing, in my opinion, do not include a sufficient buffer if you have additional questions and/or corrections. We were asked several times to remove the last review, and after some thought, I have chosen to amend it. Similar to prior Yelpers, I believe that it they have improved their services, my initial review will just be background noise as the one off.

I guess it is time to update my review for the 2025 Tax Planning (not return) season. During my…read morelast review, after ccing as many contacts I had, Arvee Flores reached out and connected me with Michael Dacuma. They offered me a discount to resume Tax Planning and Return service for 2024 (return) + 2025 (planning). I obliged to see as I suspected it was a one time issue with the particular person I got transferred to. Let me go over the process one more time. You get an email to schedule when you want to start uploading documents via a secure portal. The process is roughly the same regardless of tax returns or tax planning. The portal is a check list of sorts in which you upload each key item like your paystub, w2, etc. and mark them as checked off as you acquire them through various online portals. I think this was a great way to help you iteratively step through your accounts and get each required doc. Once all the steps are completed, you'll get an email from AlphaB saying they'll start working on your file. Usually in about 1-2 weeks, you will get the result and an opportunity to schedule a walkthrough. If it is a Tax Return, the process is relatively straight forward. I think the return filing were often trying to minimize my lost to taxes. The planning part. Overall, was much better than when I was assigned to Ma Christina. At least I was not ghosted and I did get a response back to my question. The quality of the response could improve as several times I had to follow up on to clarify my question even further to understand how to process the Tax Plan recommendation or how it relates with the BBB changes. At some points, I wondered if they even read the extra context I had provided or just fed it to AI to give me some response. It was kind of a minor issue but one you hopefully wouldn't have to deal with given the asking price of service. As for the tax plan itself, it was so-so. Perhaps I have exhausted most of my options but I often got the same advice like "consider starting a business." I mean sure but that isn't the easiest and most actionable advice. A simple, "you are doing a great job and you more or less have maximized all tax efficient opportunities..." before bringing up advice to just start a business would be motivating and great preface. Why a 3*? I had 2 requirements for 2025: - Help me plan which lot to sell my stocks - For tax year 2025, to ensure I had near $0 or owe up to $2000. The former was to help with building some down payment funds for a potential home purchase which I had stated would be estimated early 2026 at best or even later. The latter was simply a preference on how I wanted to handle taxes. The first point, I brought this up early in the year and got some formulation on what to sell in 2025 to reach some allocation. I do think they had forgotten to consider stocks vested via ESPP and completely avoided the question when I asked in a follow up. I executed the stock at the cost of later finding out the BBB and SALT cap changes. It would have been great to hear some advise like "here's some calculations on how to be tax efficient with the current price but something to consider is the BBB and rumored SALT cap adjustments you would be losing out..." and proceed to suggest an alternative strategy to best maximize. I'm paying for Tax Planning and personalized advice so I'd hope to have received these "btw" considerations when making moves. Overall, I had about 6 Tax Planning meetings for the Tax Year 2025. These all provided coordination on if we are on the right trajectory to achieve my desired range of owe/receive $0 or owe up to $2000. As a validation experiment, I had requested another CPA/EA (so equivalent credentials) compute my tax returns for 2025. If all the tax planning was correct, I'd be near $0; however, the margin of error was quite excessive in my opinion that I question what was the point of all the Tax Planning prep (gathering docs) and sync (30m per sync) if there's no predictability during tax return season. Lastly, they wanted to charge an additional 10% of service fee to handle 2025 Tax Returns due to the BBB complexity. To me, I wasn't too happy with the service I had received so an extra 10% cost while perhaps warranted didn't seem worthwhile given the subpar service. For reference, my new CPA/EA has offered Tax Advice and Planning for about half the cost and has been providing me illustrations on some tax move considerations under various risk profiles and scenarios given current economic climate. I have also been requested to remove my last review of Ma Christina. I will leave that up as I think others should be aware that there has been a history of complete communication chain break down after paying for financial services. If the situation has truly been resolved, the review itself will be drowned out by positive reviews over time.

I have been working with Joe for the last few years. I first used him when Turbo Tax advisory…read moreservice sent me for a tailspin. After seeing the error strewn tax return, called around at short notice and was not able to get anyone's time. Finally stumbled upon Joe's reviews on Yelp and decided to give it a shot. Was impressed with his knowledge on my first call and decided to give him a chance soon after. I have not been disappointed - Joe knows his stuff including stocks for startups and small business rules.

After my mom died, I needed to get CPA help, so I could get an estimate of how much of her estate…read moreto reserve for the next year's taxes. Most places I called didn't want to deal with me (too small potatoes I guess!) or charged too much. After finding Joe Collett (LPC Tax) online, I interviewed him in person, and he seemed a great guy! So I hired him to do the estimate, at a reasonable cost; he also got a reappraisal of mom's property to minimize taxes. The next year I hired him to do the estate taxes; more complicated than I thought, and he did a great and thorough job! Later he even wrote a letter to the IRS to cancel a penalty they had levied, so I got an unexpected refund. I highly recommend Joe Collett, as he is honest, straightforward, and highly competent; everything you want in a tax accountant.

Very friendly and transparent CPA. She was able to answer my questions and explaing strategies that…read moretailor to my income streams.

I did not have any experience with doing taxes for the quarterly deadline, but Yan was very helpful…read moreand answered a lot of my questions, helping me through all the steps of the way. If you need help, make sure it isn't right before the deadlines, giving time to prepare what is needed. Will definitely be going back to Yan even if it isn't about the end of year tax deadline. Thank you so much Yan!

I had a great experience using this Fractions service. Ruby was incredibly easy to talk to and made…read morethe entire process feel simple and stress-free. From the start, she took the time to answer my questions clearly and made sure I understood everything. What really stood out was how fast and efficient the service was without sacrificing quality. She handled everything professionally and accurately, and I felt confident that my taxes were done right. I highly recommend her services to anyone looking for a reliable, friendly, and efficient tax professional. Best in the business! Thank you again Ruby!

I want to thank Ruby for her great service in filing my tax return. Careful, patient, and…read moreprofessional.

Elina is a financial tax planning guru; she is unbelievabley brilliant and hyper detailed.read more

I have not actually worked with Elina, as she was not taking new clients when I reached out…read more However, she took the time to ask a bit about my tax situation, and then followed up by leaving a detailed voicemail for me with three different referrals (2 CPA's and 1 tax preparer) that I could also contact. I really appreciated her help.

I have been using Sophia's business for years now and really appreciate the great service and…read moreadvice.

First time requiring the need of a tax professional and being a CPA myself, I thought Sophia…read moreprovided excellent service. Sophia and team provided detailed list of items and a safe portal to upload them, no more sending in paper receipts! I have heard horror stories of preparers ghosting their clients, not Sophia, she kept us informed all along the process. Efiled today- 15 days early! Taxes made simple!!

Tania and Raul- this review is long overdue. Thank you so much for helping us prepare our taxes for…read moreour business since we opened the doors in 2015. We appreciate your help not only with preparing our taxes but also taking the time to answer questions throughout the year we've had about taxes and for helping us file the extensions we have needed to file. You're team is amazing and we appreciate for it!

Have been doing taxes with Miriam for the last 8 years and i think there is a reason why you stick…read moreon to something. Great service, good people and always greets you with a smile. I have tried turbo tax too and given i am naive and just following simple instructions i could see that my tax returns were somewhere around $1800 and when i did it with Miriam she told me a few things i could consider like always and i see the difference is almost $3000. Like i said, its better to let the professional do their job right for a nominal fee they charge you. (Atleast you know you havent done anything wrong to bite you back) The whole process was less than 15-20 mins.

Thai is awesome! He is extremely knowledgeable about general tax inquiries and tax strategy. He is…read morequick, succinct and to the point. He helped me file an amended return and helped me reclaim thousands of dollars. He is knowledgeable about tax filings as it relates to RSUs, stock options, and other stock elections. His office is located in a quiet neighborhood which made meeting him in person easy and simple.

Thai is a very dishonest person, in 2023 I contacted him to get my business taxes done. This was my…read morefirst mistake as he had no experience working with a property management company. He marked my business revenue as over $1 million when my business only made around 200,000 that year and I was forced to pay an astronomical amount of taxes which I needed to hire a new CPA to fix in the following years not only this I did not decide to continue with his services and he did not contact me for two years then randomly one day he decided to send me a bill of over $14,000 claiming that for the past two Years he had been reconciling my books keep in mind there was zero communication between the two of us for over two years and then randomly out of nowhere he sends me an invoice for $14,000 and threatened to sue me. If I do not pay, I refuse to pay since there were no services provided and now he decided to file a claim in small claims court, but is only suing me for $6000 I offered to reimburse him for a QuickBooks subscription that he had on my behalf but he did not accept and is asking me to pay him over $500 per month for reconciliation services on a bank account that has zero transactions monthly. Please avoid this CPA at all cost. There are much better options in the Bay Area.