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Tax Prep Services
Your return, prepared by a CPA who will actually explain it to you.
Federal and Vermont. Individuals, self-employed people, and small entities. Pricing published below — no quote-after-consultation games.
Tax preparation
What it costs
Minimum engagement $700
Every engagement is quoted in writing before work begins. These are starting figures — where yours lands depends on the schedules your situation requires, the state of your records, and how much has changed since last year.
Individual
W-2 income, interest and dividends, itemized deductions.
Self-employed Most clients
Schedule C, 1099 income, single-member LLC, home office, vehicle, depreciation.
Most land between $1,300 and $2,000
Rental & investment
Schedule E, K-1s, meaningful capital gain activity, multi-state filing.
Entity return
S corporation or partnership, including K-1s issued to owners.
Prior-year catch-up
One year behind or several.
Priced separately, always quoted first
- Bookkeeping cleanup where records don't yet exist
- Payment
- Half at engagement, half before the return is filed.
- Billing
- Flat fees, quoted in writing.
- No contingent fees
- Nothing I charge is ever tied to the size of your refund.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
The return, prepared correctly.
Federal and Vermont, e-filed, with the supporting schedules and elections your situation actually requires — not the ones the software defaulted to.
A review conversation. Before anything is filed, we walk through the return together. Not a signature page and a summary sheet — an actual explanation of what drove the number and what you're looking at.
A forward-looking note. After filing, you get a short written summary of what I saw: the items that will repeat next year, the decisions that are still open, and the estimated payments you should plan for.
Year-round access for filing questions. If you get a notice, receive an unexpected K-1, or need to know the tax consequence of something before you do it, reach out. Quick questions don't start a clock.
Get In Touch
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