Areas served across the south Denver metro
One office in Lone Tree, clients across Douglas, Arapahoe, and Jefferson counties. Documents go up through a secure portal and the rest happens by phone, so the address rarely gets in the way.
Where clients come from
Each page covers what actually complicates returns in that community, including the local licensing and property tax quirks that catch people out. Pick yours.
Parker
Self-employment, S-corp timing, and the town business license service firms miss.
Get started →Centennial
Equity compensation from the DTC, rentals, and the mailing-address jurisdiction trap.
Get started →Highlands Ranch
Unincorporated, so no town license. Home offices, home sale gain, and college credits.
Get started →Castle Rock
Contractors, part-year moves, and the town use tax on materials bought elsewhere.
Get started →Denver
Occupational Privilege Tax, short-term rentals, and equity comp downtown.
Get started →Aurora
Military residency around Buckley, three counties, and small business returns.
Get started →Lakewood
Jefferson County self-employment, long-held houses, and federal retirement income.
Get started →Does it matter where your preparer sits?
For the return itself, no. Federal and Colorado returns are prepared and e-filed the same way whether the preparer is ten minutes away or across the metro, and most clients here send documents through the secure upload and handle everything else by phone. Nobody sits in traffic to hand over a folder.
What does matter is whether the preparer knows what your particular situation generates. Colorado is full of home rule municipalities that collect their own sales tax and license businesses themselves, which is why a contractor in Parker, one in Castle Rock, and one in Highlands Ranch face three different sets of obligations for identical work. Add metro district property tax in the newer subdivisions, Denver's Occupational Privilege Tax for anybody commuting in, and mailing addresses that name the wrong city entirely, and local knowledge stops being a marketing line.
Charles Trautman is an Enrolled Agent, federally licensed by the IRS to represent taxpayers, and has been preparing returns from this office since 2010. The services page covers what that includes.
Not seeing your city?
We work with clients throughout the Denver metro and the rest of Colorado through the secure portal. Call or email and we will tell you honestly whether it is a fit.