George P Petropoulos, EA

George was an awesome tax guy. Unfortunately he passed away in June 2015 so this business is now closed. Rest in peace my friend.

Love George who had always done right by us. We were referred by my son 15 years ago and he’s been doing our taxes ever since.
I’m saddened by his recent death and will miss him and his expertise in tax law.

I have known George professionally for over 15 years. In my opinion there is no one who cares more about making sure that you are treated fairly. If he does your taxes he will give you his best effort. If you need help fighting the IRS there is no one I would trust more than George.

I normally do not write negative reviews because I like to give people the benefit of doubt. However, the experience we had with Mr. Petropoulos was so bizarre that I feel I have the duty to warn everyone not to do business with this person. As I was doing research on other reviews for him I came across a post on Yellow Pages where someone reported a similar bizarre experience. Here is the link to that post:
We had an appointment with Mr. Petropolous where I gave him all the documents he needed to complete corporate taxes for my business. We also gave him additional documents as we wanted him to help us do tax planning and also help us with our personal tax filing. During the meeting he praised us for being so organized and expressed pleasure working with us. He then asked me to email him additional paperwork and information, which I did one day after we left his office. While at his office, we made a follow up appointment for the following week when we were supposed to bring with us paperwork for our personal tax filing (as he requested).
Things totally took a strange turn when we showed up for the appointment the following week. He was irritated and insulting. He said that we were not organized (What?) and that he is upset because we did not provide him with the paperwork for our personal taxes, even though he specifically told us to bring them with us to the follow up appointment. Then he proceeded to estimate twice as much tax that we would have to pay the government and mentioned that since Congress changed the tax law the amount of tax we would owe would be doubled. He was well aware that we had already paid estimated taxes back in July, yet was insisting that we have to pay additional tax. He then proceeded to say that at one point people had to pay 90% income tax and other strange and bizarre statistics which clearly showed he did not know what he was talking about.
We left the office quite upset and decided to purchase Turbo Tax and try to do our personal taxes to see if anything he was saying made any sense. As we suspected, according to Turbo tax not only we would not owe any taxes, we even would be getting a refund!!! He had told us that we would not be able to do itemized deduction, which turned out not to be true as we were able to do that in Turbo Tax!!!
In light of the numbers that Turbo Tax gave us and his odd unprofessional behavior, we let him know that we would not continue doing business with him and that we would go elsewhere for our tax filing. We asked for him to return all the documents he has from us on file, but he said he would only give them to us only if we pay him for his time (which we offered to do anyway).
If you are looking for tax preparation help or Tax advice, do yourself a favor and do not go to this man, he is unprofessional, ignorant, disrespectful, and crazy. To think that we went to him because a friend referred him to us is crazy and goes to show that you always have to do your own due diligence before working with someone.