McArdel Michael A CPA PS

On my third year having Mike prepare my taxes. He is always very communicative, helpful, accurate, and prompt.

For the past 20 years we’ve used Connover Tax Service in Kirkland for our yearly tax preparation. Since we live in Kent, I decided I should be fiscally responsible and use someone local to do our tax preparation. We met with Michael McArdel and reviewed our previous and current tax year and thought all was well. He called us in several weeks later and we thought we’d be getting the return finalized. At the meeting he said our taxes were a bit complicated and he still need an explanation of one itemization which was answered the following day. The demeanor of this meeting and the other was he seemed to struggle with the return. In previous years, we were both earning mid to high six figure income with lot’s of deductions, both of us being in sales and managing business’s. We have in the last three years become independent contractors and are making a third less income with less deductions. Connovers bills were in the range of $ 450 to a high of $ 650.00.
We were a little surprised with McArdels complaint that our return as being «complicated». When the taxes were ready for pickup, we got a bill that was at least 30% higher than the professional tax accounting service we’d used in previous years, plus he chose to apply our return to future IRS taxes rather than refund to us. This was done without consultation or advisement. Please let me decide where my money goes! Anyway, I would not recommend this company to do your tax returns– I will sacrifice gas money and go back to Connover Tax Service in Kirkland in future years.