Tax Care

Individual returns, corporate returns and estate taxes have all been prepared here since 1986, alongside bookkeeping, write-up work, payroll and sales tax. Entity filings, Offers in Compromise and audit representation round out the work. The case Tax Care makes against self-preparation software is partly a cost one — it puts its fee for a typical return at roughly what TurboTax would come to — and partly an argument that refunds generated by software-trained chain preparers can be difficult to substantiate if an audit follows, where its own approach rests on tax law and documentation. Concord, Antioch and Brentwood are the named catchment, though returns are prepared for clients in any state. Appointments, a client portal and federal and California refund tracking run through the website. Hours lengthen through filing season, to 9 to 7 Monday through Saturday and Sunday afternoons from January 1 to April 15.