Accountants specialize just like medical personnel. Home Child
Care, construction, rental properties, auto based businesses,
home based businesses, animal based businesses, direct sales,
landscaping, and couriers are some of our specialties.
We service clients in all States, processing both Federal
and State returns. The Internet has opened up a whole new world
for our profession. Data can be transmitted by email, fax,
US mail and UPS. Questions can be asked and answered by email.
Returns can be emailed to clients for review before completion.
Deposits and fees can be paid via PayPal from this website.
Completed returns can be sent to clients by email or UPS. We've
been using this procedure for several years, now. Our clients
seem very pleased with how well it works.
We stay current with all of the rule changes every year and
are in contact with the IRS every month. Our goal is to legally
minimize your tax liability and maximize your tax refund.
We provide help sheets, data sheets, tax advice, financial
advice, financing assistance, telephone and email support,
all year 'round for our clients. That is why you need an accountant.
Review of Previous Tax Returns
If you had your prior years' returns completed by anyone else,
we may be able to retrieve several hundred to several thousands
of dollars in refunds for you. If we cannot retrieve more than
twice our fee in refunds and there are no substantial violations
of law that MUST be amended, we will advise you not to amend
and there will be no charge.
Estimated Tax Payments
The big bite for self employed persons is NOT income tax,
but self employment tax. Meaning, your Social Security and
Medicare tax payments. This tax is calculated on your NET PROFIT.
You must deposit a sufficient amount into your withholding
account by January 15 each year or a substantial underpayment
penalty of $500 can be assessed by the IRS. This is where we
come in. We can help you structure your account, so that you
can avoid these costly pitfalls.
Other Services
Our clients also use us as a sounding and information board
all year long. That's part of our service. We do IRS interventions
and State Tax interventions. We provide referrals to attorneys,
investment counselors, bankers, insurance agents, and other
financial professionals are part of our job. Assistance with
loan applications, insurance settlements, Food Program forms,
Social Security forms, and financial aid forms are part of
our service to our clients. Only a Firm with a large and diversified
client base knows how to, and is able to, perform all of these
services.
The following are some of our more Frequently Asked Questions.
This list will continue to build.
1. How do I become a client?
Becoming a Client
- We will send you a Policy & Procedures Statement and
a Client Sign Up Sheet by return mail when you email us your
address. You can also print the sheets from your computer.
- IF, after your read the Policy & Procedures Statement,
you choose to become a client, fill out the Client Sign
Up Sheet and return it with a check, Money Order or PayPal
for
$50. If you prefer us to do your receipts, we ask for $100.
This is a deposit which will apply to your tax return preparation
fee.
- We will send you a Data Pack (Gold or Blue or Both),
these can also be printed from our homepage. If you'd like
we will
send you a disk with your business categories set up for
either Quicken or QuickBooks. I recommend Quicken. When you
get the
disks, we will walk you through setting up and some initial
key entries by phone, no charge, if you choose.
- Please keep track of your receipts. You can make copies
of the data pack and use it monthly, if you like. At the
top of Page 1 is a line for the time period SEP2002, as opposed
to 2003 (end of the year). At the end of the year, you
total
your monthly sheets on a colored copy and label it 2003.
- If you use Quicken or QuickBooks, do your entries every
night, once a week, whatever. At the end of the year, do
a backup disk of the file.
- At the end of the year you send to us:
- The completed Data Pack, - Blue for Child Cares
or Gold for Self Employed. These help sheets can be printed
from
our webpage.
- All W-2's
- A copy of the "Settlement Statement" for
your house.
- A copy of your form 1098 (Mortgage Interest)
from every lender on your house.
- A copy of your real estate
tax or property tax invoice, if you pay it separately.
- A copy of the purchase agreement from the dealer
for each of your cars, if you can find them (not
critical).
- A copy of your last year's return.
- A copy of all previous years return containing
self employment forms.
- A completed yellow check sheet, you can print
the checklist from our webpage.
- A copy of all 1099 forms.
- A copy of all employee forms (W-2, W-3,
940, 941 and your states' Unemployment
forms).
When we get all this, I will email you or call you to discuss
it. When we get into the account, we will email you on progress,
etc.. When completed, we will call you with results and remainder
of fee.
You send us a check or submit payment through PayPal. When
the check clears, we UPS your total return, the FEDERAL copy,
the STATE copy, YOUR copies in a pretty blue folder, ALL worksheets
and supporting statements and YOUR raw data. If you are ever
audited, all you need is YOUR copy of your return in the pretty
blue folder and your box of receipts. Everything is explained
in YOUR copy of the return.
For the rest of the year, you have unlimited telephone and
email support.
So, if you choose to become a client, email us your address,
you can also sign our guest book with telephone #. All information
you enter into the guest book can only be read by NELSON & RILEY.
The Policy Statement and Client Sign Up Sheet will go out the
next working day or you can print the sheets from our webpage.
2. What can be done if I didn't deduct everything I could
on a past return?
REVIEWING AND AMENDING TAX RETURNS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS
Anytime *_BEFORE_* January 5th, or *_AFTER_* May 15th, you
should UPS (NOT mail) COPIES of your previous three returns
to us. With UPS, you have a tracking number, so you can tell
where your package is and it's a lot less likely to get lost.
However, you can mail them if you like. It's your choice. Please,
never mail originals.
Once received, we will analyze them. If we find any holes,
missing or understated information and we believe we can retrieve
you enough money (at least twice our fee), we can amend, changing
your last three years of returns, including the current year.
We email you with the results of our analysis.
If you want us to amend them, we then send you a Sign Up Sheet
and Policy & Procedures Statement, these sheets can also
be printed from our webpage. You fill out the Sign Up Sheet
and send it to us with the $50 deposit (check or PayPal), which
is applied toward the fee. Then we send you a Data Set and
Check List for each year, these can also be printed from our
site. A Quicken Category Disk will also be sent by return mail.
You recalculate your data for the oldest year, using our data
guides, and send it back to us. Then we go to work. Right now,
2002 is the current tax year. We can amend 1999, 2000, 2001
until April 15, 2003 . After April 15, we can no longer amend
1999 because 2002 becomes the current tax year and 1999 is
more than three years back.
If after receiving your reworked data, we can actually retrieve
more than twice our fee, we go to work .When we complete the
first amendment, we notify you of the results and the remainder
of the fee for that year. We ship you the amended return. You
then send us a check or pay through PayPal for the amended
return and the revised data for the next oldest year, using
our data guides. You mail amendment you just received to the
IRS, in the envelope we provide. We will wait until you give
us permission to amend the next year. Some people like to actually
get the refund from the IRS before they have us proceed. That
is, after all, proof.
When we get your permission, we start work on the next oldest
year. When we notify you of the results of that amendment,
you send us the fee and the revised data for the current year.
We send you back the amended return. You mail it to the IRS
in the envelope we provide and so on. This goes on until we
have amended all available returns. Your deposit applies to
the final amendment.
If we can't get you back enough money (at least twice our
fee), and there are no violations of law that MUST be corrected,
then we send you back your returns (or destroy the copies you
sent - your choice), but no additional materials. Your cost
is the postage both ways. There are no fees.
If you want to become a client anyway, then we send you the
sign up materials or you may print the sheets from our webpage.
You send them back with your $50 deposit or submit a $50 payment
through PayPal. We send you back your prior year returns after
pulling off the data that we can apply to the next year.
Each year after that, you send us your data in January, or
February and we process the return, keeping you posted by email
and/or telephone. We will notify you when the return is completed.
You then send us the balance of the fee and we will UPS the
return and your raw data back to you.
If you are the member of a forum on which I post, or an organization
at which I speak, you will receive a 15% discount off of your
fee. If you refer someone else who becomes a client, you receive
another fee discount. Please let me know who referred you to
us, so that we can give them a referral discount.
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