Restaurants and food service
Tip reporting and the FICA tip credit, the taxable-versus-exempt food line, third-party delivery platforms that report gross while you receive net, and the sales tax audits this sector attracts more than any other.
Certified Public Accountants · Woodside, Queens
A CPA in Woodside, NY who will still take your call in August
Business and personal tax, bookkeeping, payroll and IRS representation from a licensed firm on Roosevelt Avenue since 2004. Fixed fees agreed before we start, a named accountant on your file, and seven languages across the desk.
- 22
- years on Roosevelt Avenue
- 7
- languages spoken in the office
- 14
- business and personal services
- $175
- individual returns start here
Why clients stay
The things that actually make a difference
There are a lot of people in Queens who will file a tax return. These are the four reasons clients give when we ask them why they came back.
A licensed CPA signs your return
Not a seasonal preparer hired in January. The person who reviews your file in April is the same person who answers the phone in September.
Fixed fees, quoted before we start
You approve a written engagement letter with the fee on it. We do not start the clock on a meter and hand you a surprise.
Seven languages across the desk
English, Spanish, Tagalog, Nepali, Bengali, Korean and Mandarin. Woodside is not a one-language neighborhood and neither are we.
You get an answer, not a ticket number
Calls are returned the same business day. During filing season we answer the phone on Saturdays too.
What we do
Public accountant services in Woodside, NY
Everything below is done in this office by people who work here. Nothing is offshored, and the CPA who reviews your file is the one whose name is on the door.
Personal
Personal Tax Returns
Individual federal, New York State and New York City returns prepared and e-filed by a CPA — including the complicated ones.
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Business
Business Tax Returns
Federal and New York returns for S corporations, C corporations, partnerships and LLCs — prepared, reviewed and e-filed by a CPA.
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Business
Bookkeeping
Clean, reconciled, current books — kept monthly by people who know what the year-end return will need from them.
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Business
Payroll
Payroll run, filed and paid on time — federal, New York State and New York City — with the quarterly forms handled as part of it.
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Personal
IRS Representation
Audits, notices, back taxes, liens and payment plans — we deal with the IRS and New York State so that you do not have to.
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Business
Small Business Accounting
A finance department for a business too small to hire one: monthly closes, management reporting, and a CPA on the phone when a decision needs one.
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Woodside, Queens
We are two blocks from the 61st Street station
The office has been at 60-15 Roosevelt Avenue, Suite 3B since 2004. Most of our clients live or trade within four subway stops of it — Sunnyside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Astoria, Maspeth, Long Island City. Some of them we now only see once a year over video, because they moved to Long Island and stayed with us anyway.
Being local is not sentiment. It means we know what a Queens commercial lease looks like, which landlords ask for reviewed statements, how the sales tax auditors here run a markup analysis on a deli, and that a great many households on these blocks file with a spouse, a parent or a bank account in another country.
- Two blocks from the 61st Street–Woodside station — 7 train, LIRR, and the Q32, Q60 and Q70 buses.
- Evening and Saturday appointments through filing season.
- Video appointments and a secure portal if you would rather not travel.
How it works
No surprises, in either direction
Talk to us first
A first conversation costs nothing and takes about twenty minutes. Bring last year's return if you have one — most of what we need to quote you is in it.
A written engagement letter
Scope and fee in writing before any work starts. If something changes the scope, you hear about it before it changes the fee.
We do the work
Prepared by a preparer, reviewed by a CPA, compared against the prior year. Nothing leaves this office unreviewed.
We explain it
Not just the number. What drove it, what to expect next year, and what to change before December if anything should.
We are here in August too
A letter about a return we filed is part of the same engagement. You do not get a new invoice for us answering for our own work.
Who we work with
Industries we know from the inside
Every trade has one or two tax questions that decide most of the outcome. These are the ones we answer over and over in western Queens.
Construction and the trades
Job costing, percentage-of-completion, certified payroll for public work, the capital-improvement versus repair distinction that decides whether you charge sales tax, and 1099 versus employee classification.
Retail and bodegas
Point-of-sale reconciliation, inventory and shrinkage, cigarette and beverage taxes, and the markup analysis a New York sales tax auditor will run against your purchases.
Medical, dental and professional practices
Entity structure for licensed professionals, equipment purchase timing, retirement plan selection where the contribution limits are large, and associate compensation.
In their words
What clients tell us
Illustrative comments written for this demonstration site. They are not real client reviews and are deliberately not marked up as ratings anywhere in this page's structured data.
The first accountant who told me I did not need something.
I went in ready to set up an S corp because everyone said to. They ran my actual numbers and told me to wait a year. That conversation cost me three hundred and fifty dollars and saved me about four thousand.
Three years of unfiled returns, handled without drama.
I had been avoiding it for so long that I had convinced myself it was criminal. It was not. They filed everything, got most of the penalties abated, and set up a payment plan I can actually afford.
They found what my old preparer had been missing.
Nobody had ever mentioned the New York pension exclusion to me. It had been wrong for four years. They amended the returns and it came back to us.
Somebody in the office speaks my mother's language.
My mother is eighty-one and does not do her own paperwork in English. That they could sit with her and explain it directly mattered more than the fee.
Common questions
Before you pick up the phone
How much does it cost to have a CPA do my taxes?
Individual returns start at $175 for a straightforward W-2 filing and most fall between $295 and $650. Business returns start at $1,150 for an S corporation. We quote your fee in writing before starting, based on your prior-year return, and it does not change unless the facts do.
Do I need a CPA, or is a tax preparer enough?
For a W-2 return with the standard deduction, a preparer is genuinely enough and we will say so. A CPA earns the difference when there is a business, a rental, equity compensation, foreign income, a life event, or anything that has drawn a letter from the IRS — and a CPA can represent you before the IRS, which an unenrolled preparer cannot.
Where exactly are you?
60-15 Roosevelt Avenue, Suite 3B, in Woodside, two blocks from the 61st Street–Woodside station. The 7, E, M and R trains and the Long Island Rail Road all stop within a short walk, and there is metered parking on Roosevelt Avenue.
What areas do you serve?
The office is in Woodside and most clients come from western Queens — Sunnyside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Astoria, Long Island City, Maspeth, Corona, Rego Park, Forest Hills and Ridgewood. We also work with clients across Brooklyn, Manhattan and the wider metro area, and remotely with people who moved away and stayed with us.
What languages do you speak?
English, Spanish, Tagalog, Nepali, Bengali, Korean and Mandarin across the office. Tell us which you would prefer when you call and we will schedule you with the right person.
Do I have to come to the office?
No. Documents through the secure portal, a video call to review, and electronic signature all work, and a good number of clients we now see only once a year. But the door is open and plenty of people prefer to sit down.
The first conversation is free
Talk to a CPA before you decide anything
Twenty minutes on the phone or across a desk on Roosevelt Avenue. Bring last year's return if you have one — most of what we need in order to quote you is already in it.