Smart Accounting & Tax Solutions

I was referred to Mr. UB Singh by my cousin. He helped me file my FBAR and also a tax amendment for 2014. He is very experienced and values customer’s time.
I would highly recommend him.

UB Singh is very professional, neat and clean tax person to go with for personal taxation. He made me understand few things straight without confusing me. Looks like he is very experienced guy in the tax field more than 25 years and he is clear what he is doing. He was thorough with the current laws, rules and regulations. He was very straight in explaining them rather than any diplomatic language which other tax persons use. UB Singh was seamless in the execution and relieved me in less than 1 hour. his fees are reasonable for the kind of work he is offering. I would highly recommend this firm for your personal tax. do not know about business tax though. Try to catch UB in off-​season to get his more time.

Not sure why I did not write this sooner… This is my 4^th year of tax filling through UB Singh. A true professional who is great to work with and answers all questions related to tax filling. I have referred several friends and colleagues, who all continue to work with him to this day. He goes out of his way to help and make sure you understand your tax returns. It could not have been simpler and more professional.
I would recommend UB for anyone who needs their taxes done, especially if you want to stop your yearly search for CPA. Deserve 5 stars for making our taxes headache free.

If I could give them –1 star’s I would have done that. WORST TAX EXPERIENCE EVER!!!
Ravi did my tax returns and it was horrible experience. He had no idea what he was doing. He has no knowledge about taxes. He told me several things which were not true. For every question I had he came with only one answer «you will have problems with your Green card if you claim for medical bills or donations.» I was asking about the option of filing as married filing separately and he said it is illegal to do it and I have to living separately from my wife to do so. which is absolutely not true. I checked the IRS website and confirmed the same. I told them not to file my taxes as of yet and asked them to efile on a later day so that I can take second opinion.
These are guys just like us who know how to use their software, they enter all the stuff and UB Singh checks the entry for 2 mins and approves. I could have done the same with any software.
I came back home and logged into turbo-​tax and redid my taxes and I was way better. The questions they have helped me get better refund. When I called them back to cancel my filing as I wanted to use turbo-​tax, they said they already filed the taxes. I WAS SO DAMN PISSED. All they had to say was — «GO FILE AN AMENDMENT». They were so rude. Never got o them… You will get better results from TurboTax or TaxAct

My wife started a home based business last year and when we had our tax refund done here they did not take the time to give us all the tax write offs for a business. Our refund for last year was the lowest we had in over 10 years. The brother made several mistakes and they always say we can’t claim our medical bills and donations which is a lie. We went to a friend who is a CPA and had an amendment done and our refund was tripled. The brother does not know what he is doing.

I had used UB singh (recently changed name to smart accounting) as my tax guy for 2 years. For both those years, my taxes were simple. Just W-​2s and a few 1099’s from stocks.
These guys have a system where a junior does your taxes, then a senior reviews them. Both years, the junior had made a few mistakes that the senior caught.
So I was happy. Also the price was very reasonable. I had even recommended him to 2 of my friends after the first year.
The only downside I had seen was that their time management was non-​existent. If you had an appointment for 7pm. Be prepared to wait around an hour before you are able to see someone. I was able to work around this as I took my laptop with me and got work done while I was waiting.
My troubles with them started last year. Last year my taxes got a bit complicated.
1– My company underwent an acquisition and a few shares had some ‘same day sale’ option and we were given a couple options to choose from with potential tax consequences.
After scouring the net and the IRS website for quite a few hours, I finally realized this is beyond me, and setup up a consultation with these guys.
10 minutes into the consultation, the accountant’s (this time the person was someone called Dan) eyes glazed over with my situation, and started asking me questions about the tax law! You know your tax person is not the best when you have to explain things to him. After this, he went on google (in front of me!) and started finding things out.
An hour passed with no resolution. The only good thing I have to say, is that he only charged me for half the time, which was still a bit of a rip-​off as he probably learnt as much about acquisitions and AMT as I did!
2– Tax time. Me being my lazy self had not found another tax person. So I setup an appointment with them. Hoping that since 2 people see my taxes, mistakes would be ironed out.
Appointment time. I reach at 7 for my appointment. At 8 I am ushered in to Junior #1s office. Here I bring out my second complication — an out of state house which needs to have taxes done. Just to give some background, I had given details about this when I made the appointment, and asked that if this was too complicated, then I shall not do my taxes here. They said not a problem. Great!
Junior looks at my taxes and the familiar glazed expression starts to appear. Junior calls senior. Senior walks in, looks at my taxes, utters some recommendation. Walks out. 2 minutes later the same scenario repeats for another item on my tax lines. The third time around I politely request senior if he could do my taxes instead. Senior looks offended. Grunts at me to wait outside. It is 8:30pm now.
I sit outside. Other people come and go. At 9:30pm I walk in and inquire when I could have my appointment. I get waved outside to wait.
10pm. I gather up the last dregs of my dignity, and walk out of there.
So there you have it.
Bad customer service was tolerable. But that combined with a lack of expertise on taxes is not.