Stephen C Graves, CPA

Stephen Graves is the best CPA a person can hope for: personal attention to your business, professional and expedient service, and a wealth of knowledge spanning decades. I never thought I would say I look forward to doing my taxes, but after ten years of being his client, I can say he made the experience enjoyable each year and saved me countless hours with his dedication to my business and thorough knowledge of the tax code.

Steven Graves has been my accountant for 18 years. I came to him through a recommendation and could not be happier with the excellent service he provides year after year. This is a small operation with very personalized service. If you’re looking for an H&R Block experience, you won’t get it here. He knows tax code and always saves us money year after year.

I have been utilizing the services and expertise of Stephen Graves for over 15 years and have had nothing but great service and great results. I first came to him when I was in quite a predicament and he not only got me out of the predicament but got me $ 13,000 back! Not sure what these other reviews are about, but they are nothing like the experience I have have for many years.

Per the other reviews, Stephen is very unorthodox in his manner, very casual, but I’ve been going to him for years and I appreciate that he is not so buttoned down. I went to him years ago after having a very expensive and professional-​seeming accountant botch my taxes and give me very bad advice about exercising options. But this is definitely not a completely «hands-​off service» — you need to use Stephen as an enhancement to what you would do yourself on Turbotax — for $ 300 – 400 (as compared to $ 1000 – 1500 with other independent accounts), if you are fairly knowledgeable about the tax process yourself and have all of your receipts summarized on his worksheet, it’s pretty turnkey. I basically work with him because he has the PRO software that I can take advantage of. And I’ve never had him miss a deadline for filing an extension, etc.

This is the first time I write here, but I see I have to share my experience that others won’t face my problem later !!
The worst professional behavior I have ever seen !
Last year, I had to go plenty times to get everything done and it take me lots of time.
This year, I wanted to have another appointment with him, prior to my appointment to check if everything is fine this time.
I called and describe the situation to secretary when she asked me what is my appointment regarding to, but the secretary told me I don’t need an appointment ! I said I need it, and the only favor she did !!! was to give me phone appointment for 15 days later !!
When I called, she said he is busy and he will call you back himself. I waited 2 hours and half, I didn’t get any call back.
I called again I heard the same thing.
after four hours, I called and said I have a doctor appointment in an hour, so I should know approximately when he will call me back !
she said rudely and impolitely you don’t need to talk with him, and he calls when ever he is ok too ! I got mad and said I am the person who knows if I need to have an appointment with him or not as a client, not you ! You gave me appointment 15 days ago, and now it is more than four hours I am waiting for his call, and you still say I should wait if he calls me or not ?!
I can’t wait and do nothing till he calls me. at least give me the last minutes or early minutes of tomorrow.
And guess what? Stephen Graves got the phone and said: I won’t do your tax, go to some one else !! and just hanged down the phone with out say anything else or let me to talk !!
Can you believe that ?! It was the last week prior to 17^th of April which was the deadline !!
I got shocked and even my blood pressure goes really down, I couldn’t Imagine ! I had to talk with my consultant to get over it !! and he helped me to handle this situation with recommending me his accountant.
And guess what? I am the winner here. Because I find a good, polite, professional, reliable and more organized CPA plus this year is different from last year. I am not low income like I was before.

I’ve been with Stephen for last 5 years and he has been outstanding. Great service, many years of experience and likable personality. I highly recommend Stephen.

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This review must have been for someone else or someone has hacked into my account and written this terrible review. I’ve been unaware of this until last month. I plan to find out what the heck is going on here as soon as I have a chance to investigate how a bogus review would pop up under my profile.
Stephen Graves has been doing my taxes for the last 10 + years and I have been EXTREMELY PLEASED with his CPA services.

Horrible! I was told that my extension had been filed for my 2007 taxes. Several months later I received a bill from the IRS for penalties and interest due to the fact that «I» had never filed an extension. Of course, I informed Stephen, and he filed an appeal. He assured me that if the appeal was unsuccessful, he would cover the penalties and interest. Well, the appeal was declined. Stephen then refused to reimburse me and claimed to have never said that he would cover me if the appeal failed. Isn’t part of the point of hiring a CPA to cover your butt? I have never felt so wronged before in my life by another «professional.» I lost $ 2000 because of his negligence!

worst experience I’ve ever had. Unprofessional and honestly the whole time I had the feeling they didn’t know what they were doing. They are also poor communicators. When I voiced my frustration, I didn’t get an acknowledgement or an apology. I will not use this office again.

An update to my previous review … we had to start from scratch with our tax return this year and hire a new accountant to do our taxes. Stephen completely botched them; they were filled with mistakes and left out some important information — we decided to cut our losses rather than have him «fix» them, so we are out of pocket the $ 300 we paid him.