Smolin Lupin & Co P A

Have been a client for a few years now and value the relationship I have with my team from Smolin Lupin & Co. Two things that are most important to me: trust and availability. Truly believe that the team there will take care of my finances and I never have an issue getting them on the phone or getting an email answered.

We are a Manufacturers Representative Agency. Ted Byer has been our accountant for over 15 years. He has been at Smolin Lupin for the last four years. Ted is extremely responsive and helpful. We are getting a «small company level of service from a large firm».

I run a small business and used Smolin Lupin as our accountant for 4 years. During that time, I not only paid them a few thousand dollars a year to do our tax return, but a few additional thousand to come in on a quarterly basis to double-​check our bookkeeper’s work.
I left them after realizing we were paying way more than comparable accounting firms offering comparable service.
Then, we were audited for one of the years that smolin lupin had served as our accountants:
1) They were impossible to work with, refusing to divulge information that our new accountant needed in order to comply with the IRS. I was almost subjected to penalties because of the amount of time they procrastinated and ignored my requests.
2) The first thing that the IRS auditor did was compare the deposits into our bank account with the revenue on our tax return. There was a discrepancy. I had thought this was something that smolin lupin would have looked at while preparing our tax return, or maybe tallied up during their quarterly visits. Turns out, not so much. What I was paying them to do, in retrospect, I have no idea.
In the end, I was assessed penalties and interest due to the shoddy work that smolin lupin did. They wound up costing me thousands of wasted dollars, and I’m not even talking about their excessive fees.