VM TAX & FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC

Valencia Martin founded the practice in Baltimore in 2007; her son Rashod took over ownership and operations in 2010 and rebranded it in 2012. In 2019 he set up Shod Enterprises Corp as a parent company doing business consulting, so the tax and accounting work now sits beside a consulting arm that the two run together. Licensed in Maryland, the firm prepares individual and business returns, and a substantial part of what it takes on is trouble with the IRS — unfiled returns, back taxes, liens and wage garnishment, and settlement routes such as an offer in compromise or innocent spouse relief. Small businesses can hand over the whole back office, from bookkeeping and payroll up to part-time CFO work, and owners keeping their own books can get QuickBooks set up, tuned up or taught. Cryptocurrency accounting is among the less usual offerings.