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Click Get Started and complete the short form. We schedule a confidential consultation, ask about your situation, and follow up with a written scope and quote.
Consultations are confidential, and we tell you before scheduling whether there is a fee for your situation.
Yes. Gordon Tax has clients in all 50 states and abroad. Everything runs through a secure portal and scheduled calls; the Skokie office is available if you prefer to meet in person.
Last year’s return, this year’s tax documents, and for crypto, exports or API access for every exchange and wallet you used. We send a checklist after the consultation.
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We bill by the hour, so the cost depends on how much work your situation takes. Before we start you get a written estimate and pay a deposit, which is applied to the work. Most returns finish within the deposit; when a return takes longer than expected, for example a crypto year with a lot of reconciliation, the balance is billed when the work is complete. We do not publish flat prices because no two returns are the same.
Yes. Every engagement starts with a deposit, and the deposit is applied to your bill. If the work takes longer than the estimate, the balance is due when it is complete. The written estimate spells this out before you commit.
Yes. We accept BTC and ETH, as well as card and ACH.
Yes. If you know someone with a complicated return, the referral page explains how it works.
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Any platform with exportable history, plus on-chain activity read directly from block explorers. DeFi, staking, NFTs, mining, and prediction markets are all in scope.
Yes. Most new clients arrive with a report that mislabels transfers as sales or is missing basis. We rebuild from the source data.
It is the form brokers now file with the IRS reporting your crypto sales, often with missing cost basis. If your return does not reconcile to it, an automated notice can follow. See 1099-DA reconciliation.
We rebuild the history from exchange exports, bank records, and the blockchain, then prepare the missing returns in order, oldest year first, so basis carries forward correctly. See multi-year catch-up.
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Yes, and most owners have us do both so the K-1 or Schedule C flows through correctly.
Yes. Bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online or Xero, payroll for employees and owners, and sales tax registration and filing.
Sometimes. We run the numbers with your actual profit and a reasonable salary before recommending anything. See S corp election.
Yes. US citizens file on worldwide income. The exclusion and credit usually reduce US tax substantially; the return and the foreign account reports are still due.
Nine one-minute quizzes: the right service, FBAR, estimated taxes, S corp fit, and more.
235 tax terms in plain English, with examples and sources.
Guides on 1099-DA, catch-up filing, S corps, and 2026 changes.
Hourly billing, estimated up front, with a deposit applied to the work.
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