To all of our wonderful clients, thank you so much for your your past and continued patronage. It has been our pleasure to have the opportunity to grow along with you during this time of economic recession.

I am looking for a few more tax clients for this tax season. You can pay $2-300 to a seasonal tax shop and trust your taxes to a $10-per-hour data entry clerk, or you can call me. Offer available for most tax situations. The following may result in adjustments to your rate:

a) 1040-EZ / A filers – 25% discount!
b) 10% discount for military, teachers, senior citizens and nonprofit workers.
c) Schedule C – $25 to $50 or negotiable
d) Schedule D – $10 per 5 transactions
e) Schedule E – $15 for each
f) More than $500 of noncash contributions – $25 fee for additional required paperwork
g) Additional State / nonresident returns – $25 fee
h) Complex tax issues – negotiable. I can handle just about anything that would otherwise have been mistreated or deferred for weeks at common tax shops.
i) Business tax returns (1120, 1120-S, 1065, nonprofit) – start at $300, negotiable.
j) Extensions – $25 for all

Here’s how I work:

1) I sign a confidentiality agreement and quote you the appropriate fee, you sign an engagement letter.
2) I send you a comprehensive but straightforward questionnaire. You respond with relevant info and copies of documents as requested on questionnaire.
3) I assemble your tax return and contact you with follow-up questions. You can expect that I will be carefully reviewing all documents and comparing them to the previous year. Sometimes, I may be able to provide some tax planning considerations for either the current or future tax periods.
4) I obtain payment from you for my services (check or cash), and provide a copy of your return, along with originals of all submitted documents. I will also obtain your signature(s) for the paper file copies of the returns (not e-filing this year, sorry), and provide current year and 2011 estimated payment vouchers if there is a tax liability (up to you to mail with payment by the respective deadlines).
5) Once my payment has been validated, I will sign and mail the paper returns.

Please contact me at info@eckemoffllc.com, and let me know your preferred time / method of establishing contact. I look forward to hearing from you.

Just a quick reminder; September 15 is the final deadline for all 2009 corporation and partnership tax returns that filed an extension. If anyone has an emergency filing that they need to make in the next few weeks, please call us at 877.540.9785 or send us an e-mail to info@eckemoffllc.com.