DeVore CPA

I’m pretty tax savvy so I tend to do my own taxes, well with the help of Turbo Tax lol. But I was advising a friend of mine on how to do her taxes and I was very lost. She was a foreign worker that wasn’t a US resident and all of her income was from contract work on a 1099. Lost already? Yes so were we.
I’ll spare you the details, but let’s just throw in we had to deal with things such as residency, international tax treaties and self-​employment tax. If we did it ourselves, we would have overpaid by 850 dollars. Turbo Tax doesn’t even have the form that foreign nationals need to use for taxes. I think it’s so complicated that Turbo Tax won’t even touch it, because there are different rules for each country. It’s weird because there are like 100,000 foreign workers here per year.
I checked out other online tax services and the only one that could help was based overseas and you had to sign over power of attorney. Red flags to me.
I called up some tax companies in LA (only ones with good Unilocal reviews) and they admitted that they didn’t do much of this specific tax work but could «probably» figure it out. Well that answer isn’t good enough for me.
When I called Dave, he didn’t rush me (even though it was 3 days before the tax deadline), he advised us on an extension and scheduled us the day after taxes were due. His office that housed a bunch of other accountants was completely empty, because I guess April 16 is an unsanctioned holiday for accountants. Yet here he was working away.
Even before the meeting and getting us as clients, he did some research and emailed us on what he could do. After our meeting he kept great communication and got the taxes done within a couple days.
Now I heard of foreign workers going to H & R Block and other random places paying a lot of money for their taxes. They got screwed. We didn’t. We got lucky and found Dave. I went on a whim because I felt good about his energy on the phone. I felt reassured he would do a good job and he did.
Go to him. At least call him and talk to him for a second about your situation. He’s very nice.