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Jim is a Miracle Worker! He represented me in my Offer In Compromise and saved me almost $200,000 in IRS past due taxes. And the IRS settled for only a few thousand dollars! Amazing!

S. Scott

Establish Greater Profitability and Business EffICIENCY!

Your business’ profitability and operational efficiency are at the center of your business’ success!

Our experience, resources, and attention to detail make our accounting services second-to-none. As an experienced accounting team, we look forward to the opportunity to help transform your business’ financials as we work with you to establish short- and long-term strategies for growth and profitability.

Working with us and enlisting our business services could make all the difference!

Whether you need help starting a business, cleaning up your bookkeeping, setting up QuickBooks, handling payroll, or you crave some much-needed business coaching or other strategic consulting, we have been doing this for years, and stay on top of all of the new regulations to help you take the most advantage possible. Legally, and ethically — and profitably.

We work with our clients in a relational way to help them experience the financial success they desire — whether the business is just an idea, relatively new, or a well-established entity. Whether small, large, or in need of some special attention, we have the experience you need so that you can focus on what your business does best.

5 Helpful Tips for Sacramento Businesses To Be More Resilient in Crisis

The overall economy is on a tear right now, but for some businesses, things don’t look so rosy. By the way, if that is you and your business (not so rosy), there are a multiplicity of grants, tax credits, and very favorable loans available -- though doing it properly...

What Your Greater Sacramento Business Should Do If They Received PPP Funding

I promise that one day I'll write to you and my Greater Sacramento area readers about matters other than government aid, the CARES Act, PPP/EIDL, and whatnot.But as we all keep saying: these are extraordinary times. Pick your cliche -- it all fits right now.But here...

An Important Update For Greater Sacramento Taxpayers On IRS Notices

Even as a Greater Sacramento tax professional, when I get a letter from the IRS addressed to my business (or, worse, to my home), I share with you that feeling of initial trepidation: what fresh hell will I now have to deal with?More often than not, it's something...

Identifying Your Target Prospect by Jim Ornelas

With the business deadline (9/15) behind us, we're in tax planning season.Though the IRS (and Congress) haven't yet definitively made a statement about it (that we know of), here at Ornelas & Ornelas we are operating according to the fact that the filing deadline...

A Financial Systems Check-Up For Your Sacramento Business

Your Sacramento business obviously makes and spends money. The pluses and minuses add up (you hope) to being able to stay in business, and a look at the books tells you if your Sacramento business is doing okay or headed for trouble.What are your books telling YOU?In...

4 Next Steps for Business Tax Return Review

This week marks the end of another tumultuous tax filing season.I can’t remember anything like it. With the last minute legislative changes, software update delays, and IRS service issues -- this very well might have been the most disrupted and difficult tax season in...

How the IRS Adds Insult to Injury for Sacramento Taxpayers & How to Get Penalty Relief

Every year, the IRS charges tax debtors a boat load of penalties.Just how much? If you’re in Sacramento and you owe taxes, you should definitely take a look...To put this in perspective, the IRS budget for 2021 is about $12 billion. That means the entirety of IRS...

Ornelas & Ornelas Answers: Can You Be Fired Because of A Wage Levy?

We're almost at the end of September, which is bewildering -- where did summer go? Pumpkin lattes are everywhere, the weather is turning ... and life is really starting to accelerate. But we do know something that can stop anyone in their tracks on an accelerating...

Training Your Heart For Good Financial Stewardship In Greater Sacramento

Working with my Greater Sacramento clients' finances over the years has given me a bit of a crash course in human behavior. Often, I'm floored by the generosity I see displayed by many clients -- even those without significant means. Other times ... well, I think that...

IRS Audits Planned To Increase 50% In 2021 by Jim Ornelas

So, this is flying under the radar in the ending of 2020 ... an IRS official just publicly stated that they are massively ramping up audits next year.It was at an event for the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Professional Accounts), and it happened Tuesday:“The...

How You're Missing Legal Tax Deductions

Here’s a certain truth: the State and Federal Government would love to have more of your hard-earned money in their accounts. Sure, even though it’s painful, none of us begrudge paying our legal and fair share of taxes.

But the problem is that regular taxpayers, like you, are missing out on legal and safe deductions, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed refunds every year!

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