Give Yourself A Christmas Present At Tax Time

By Alice HortonBarr, CEO, Honest Abe's Taxes, Inc.

How much do you usually spend on your tax preparation? Several hundred dollars? Why? Because you fall for the false advertisements of the National Chains? You believe because they are large franchises that they will do a better job and be there for you? You think they will be more knowledgeable and get you more money? You think they have programs that no other tax offices can offer you? If you answer any of the above questions “yes” you are a VICTIM of the brain washing of advertising.

Honest Abe’s Taxes offers their customers: 1) Year Round Service which is (a) accurate, (b) reasonable priced, and (c) has the same programs that the franchises has; 2) Tax Planning is included in the price that you pay for Tax Preparation – this is more important than tax prep in that if you are unhappy with how your current year looks it is up to you to adjust how the next year will look; 3) We have experienced staff and we train our staff, we do not train the staff by having them “self-study” 4) We offer multiple Customer Appreciation Programs; and 5) We do not do false Advertising.

Our prices have held the line for the last 5 years but are going up slightly for the coming season. Our basic price covers your Federal, 1 State, and your local for $100 to $150. The add on fees are for things like Sch C (selfemployment), Sch E (rental property or K-1 investments), numerous W-2 or W-2G, etc. We do advise you before we begin if the bill looks like it will exceed our “basic price”. We can give you a paper copy but primarily work with an email or flash drive copy. After serving the area for 10 years we have bought a building and will be in our permanent home at 259 Claremont Avenue, Tamaqua as of December 3. We are doing an open house December 18 and invite EVERYBODY to come out and meet us. We will have door prizes and be there to answer your questions. We do offer full service in taxes, Federal, all states, local, advances of your refund, and payment of fees from your federal tax refund. We do bookkeeping and payroll year round. We do training of bookkeeping, excel, and tax preparation. We have a notary on staff. We are here to serve the community and look forward to being more available since our new location is within a 10 mile radius of Hazleton and 8 other communities. Thank you for the support these first 10 years and we look forward to the future with you!