Candela & Associates, LLC

Here's a story from this week of how we helped a business owner save $22K in unnecessary taxes.

This business owner came to us with a QuickBooks Online file that was OK - but not great.

We cleaned it up and found over 10K in deductions that were missed/categorized incorrectly.

Then, we reviewed his entity election with him and advised him that we could elect S-Corp status to save him thousands more on self-employment taxes.

This year, we'll be doing even more tax-planning to save EVEN MORE.

DM me if your accountant is doing the bare minimum and you're looking for more help.

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