Underwood Tax

Very happy with Nick’s services. My husband and I always wait until the last minute to file our taxes. This year we called upon Nick to help us out and even with a short amount of time, Nick got us our paperwork and we filed on time. He was thorough and happily explained the confusing part to me. We’d definitely recommend him and will use him again next year!

This is my third year in a row using Nick to prep and file my taxes and I’m forever grateful that he was referred to me. He simplifies the process into terms that I can understand and goes out of his way to ensure that I’m getting the best deal possible and am getting money back.

Highly recommended! Taxes are a huge pain in the butt, but Nick makes it a pleasure to get one of the worst times of the year out of the way as quickly and efficiently as possible.

My wife and I have been doing our own taxes for years and consider ourselves pretty savvy. For some reason, she loves filling out forms, we both are good with numbers and understanding complicated tax questions. We both despise the idea of paying someone to do something we can do ourselves, but my tax situation was getting a little more complicated than we were fully comfortable with. We still entered into the idea of hiring someone to do our taxes with some heavy skepticism…
Working with Nick quickly threw any hesitation we had right out the window. He’s quick, knowledgable, and almost absurdly easy to work with.
We were able to sit down in person with him at our house and bombard him with questions, all of which he had great answers for. He was always available for follow up questions (of which we had many), via phone, email, and text. He helped set up my 1099 business income and reporting, helped me develop a system for tracking business expenses, advised us on several key decisions, and of course, saved us plenty of money.
Nick helped me first make the decision to not incorporate as I would lose more than I would gain, but in the course of working with him this year, my situation changed and he advised me that forming an S Corp would make sense for me. He walked me through everything I needed to do to make that happen and I feel like I’m in good hands in terms of the accounting side of have a registered business.
I would recommend Nick to anyone, and especially to creative artists in Hollywood. He’s the best.

This is my second year working with Nick. It’s always a great experience. We were able to work with each other completely online & by phone which is great for my busy schedule. No need to schedule times & spend hours meeting up — more free time to relax!
Nick is great about sending heads-​ups on items due and letting you know what you can do to save the most money based on your situation.
I felt completely on top of everything. Thanks Nick!

I love Nick. Almost as much as I love my husband. Unfortunately for my spouse and I, we are typical creative brains that melt into total goo and fear-​based paralysis at the mention of anything involving numbers, money and calculations. We do good just to remember to keep receipts and to track various spending through the year, but we are useless at knowing how to maximize our return or strategize. After years of last minute H&R Block appointments where we simply strove to «get it over with», we finally put our big girl & boy panties on and decided to find a real accountant that could help us make smart choices.
My husband is a freelance writer and photographer who gets paid both as an employee and a freelancer throughout the year. I’m in tv production where I often get W-2’s and 1099’s. Our tax prep can get very confusing very fast. We needed someone who understood our varied and complicated situations as well as someone who understands what write-​offs can be applicable to people in our position. Nick is wonderful. He understands the entertainment industry and he isn’t flustered by what we find so overwhelming. He is extremely responsive via email and doesn’t require an actual physical meeting, which is helpful for people with schedules as packed as ours can be. But most importantly, he’s just really nice guy. And funny. Despite being talented with math, he’s also a fellow creative who isn’t annoyed by our endless stupid questions – he is understanding and manages to make you laugh rather than feel ridiculous.
He’s earned loyal clients in us and tons and tons of referrals.

Nick is great! As an entertainment industry professional, I have a freelance income coming in from different places (not to mention expenses), and Nick knows what questions to ask to help maximize my return. I’ve already referred several friends to him and can recommend him wholeheartedly to you, general public!

Nick was great with my taxes! Prompt, responsive, and generally awesome. I have nothing but positivity to impart here.

Our first year working with Nick was great! My husband and I are young with no dependents and minimal assets, so up until this point we were just TurboTaxing our way through tax season. However, I started my own business last year and felt like I needed a professional to guide me through making sure I was doing everything right and deducting the right things.
We used Nick and not only did it take us less time than TurboTax, I felt way more confident we were doing things right in the process and capturing more information to get a higher return. (Which it definitely seems like we did!) Nick is prompt with communication, so it’s awesome to have someone to ask a quick question to and receive a quick answer in return.
Easy, funny and enjoyable to work with — two thumbs up for Nick!

Such a positive, productive tax experience.
In the past I’ve hired traditional CPA’s to handle my taxes and have had terrible experiences. One made me sit in her office for three hours watching her silently work on my taxes (why?!). Another was completely unresponsive until April 16, when he asked me to file my own extension.
Nick is the polar opposite of my past preparers.
He is responsive and attentive, and works almost entirely online so there is no need to meet in person (though he’s happy to hop on the phone and clearly answer any questions you may have).
He has a lot of experience with entertainment clients and knows how to (legally) turn over every stone to maximize the deductions specific to our industry. This year, my return is 3x higher than the biggest return I’ve gotten in the past.
Everyone I know goes to Nick — I’ve run out of people to recommend him to IRL, so I thought I’d turn to Unilocal to let the great people of the internet know that taxes don’t have to suck!

Nick is passionate about accounting! Seriously I’ve never met someone so thrilled to have tax season come around! He is a true professional and can get the job done painlessly while making it fun and engaging. It’s a far step away from H&R block. If you are looking for a youthful, hip accountant that will fight for you to get every penny back, in the east Los Angeles area, look no further, you found your man! You will have a great personalized experience and an easy time dealing with this years taxes! I highly recommend!!!

Nick has done my taxes for the past two years and I very much recommend his services. It’s the most painless tax experience I’ve ever had! In fact, I actually had fun doing my taxes with him– it sounds like an oxymoron! Joking aside, Nick is diligent, knowledgable, hard working and his rates are reasonable. I’ve gotten great returns the last two years, and he’s even gone out of his way to help me with nagging tax stuff (that H&R Block messed up on) from when I lived across the country. I also love that when he reviews your taxes, he helps you plan for the upcoming year. If you’re working in freelance especially, Nick is your man.

Nick started out doing my personal taxes and I was so impressed that I ditched my company accountant to replace him with Nick!
Things that make working with Nick AWESOME
— He sends updates and key reminders like when 1099’s are due, city permits you might have to file, insurance re-​precautions (NOBODY else EVER reminded me of this!)
— He totally understand people that hire a bunch of 1099 employees as well as people that do lots of freelance/​part-​time work!
— He takes time to learn your financial story and help you maximize the tax benefits of your line of work (entrepreneur, actor, musician, production or whatever it may be)
— As a company, he can do both your bookeeping AND your taxes, which avoids having to pay your bookeeper to talk to your tax person THEN helps you look at options of how to file that are best for both you and your company!

Nick does the taxes for my business and me personally. Being someone that is bad at details and, you know, not being an accountant myself, I really need Nick in my life. He saved me thousands of dollars on the last three years that I «forgot» to file my personal taxes. When I told him he was magic and amazing, he responded with, «Dude, I’m just an accountant. I just did your taxes, that’s it.»
I think he’s underselling himself. I’ve referred him to literally, every single one of my friends.
Ok, on to the serious part. I’ve been running my own business since 2006. The first year I made no money so I did my own taxes. Since then, I’ve worked with probably 6 different tax preparers and accountants combined. They have ranged from guys that own their own business to big companies. Since I’ve been hiring people I’ve always been frustrated. One year my accountant lost everything I sent him AFTER the tax deadline, didn’t tell me, and I had to pull everything again. Another time our big, expensive tax firm forgot to file an important paper that we had already signed, and we got a $ 3,000 fine (which we’re still disputing). Not with Nick.
He sends us emails before big things like when 1099 forms are due. He reminds us of upcoming changes to national health care. He even goes out of his way to help our business by connecting us with some of his clients (after both parties agree, of course).
The best part is he speaks digital. We use DropBox, email, scans, etc. If you don’t want to use paper, you don’t have to. It’s awesome.
For seven years I hated taxes and accounting. Now that I don’t have to do any of the crappy part (Nick actually likes it), I can say I enjoy the process. I get to learn about my business and Nick is actually there to help.
Do yourself a favor and hire Nick. I know, it sounds too good to be true, but there are actually good accountants out there. Just not that many.