Why the envelope stays shut

How we work

Deadlines first, honesty second

Nearly every IRS notice has a response window, and the damage usually comes from the silence rather than the underlying issue. A proposed assessment answered in time is a conversation; the same one ignored becomes an assessment, then a lien.

Unfiled years work the same way. People imagine something catastrophic, when the reality is usually several straightforward returns filed in order, often with a smaller balance than feared. The first step is pulling transcripts so everyone is working from facts.

The thing we refuse to do is inflate a return. Preparers who charge a share of the refund have every reason to stretch a deduction, and it is the taxpayer — not the preparer — who signs the return and repays it later with penalties. Fixed fees remove that incentive completely.