Joseph Colacino Tax Partners

I make very little money and can file with free tax preparation. The amazing thing about free tax prep is they have always managed to successfully prepare my taxes for free. This year, I made the mistake of going to a paid tax preparer.
They put the wrong address on my taxes. When I called to point that out, I was told «leave a note on the neighbors door’. And that this would add another four weeks on my refund.
Yes. I *paid* to be told to ask my neighbors to deliver my tax check because the preparer screwed up.
Even if I knew the people three (multifamily) buildings away, why should it be their responsibility? And isn’t it illegal to request a tax check to a false address?
If I order $ 8 worth of takeout, they can find my house. If I pay for my taxes to be done, my address somehow ceases to exist.

Second year coming here and I couldn’t recommend it more.
Be prepared to wait for 2 – 3 hours on your appointment date, but the walk-​through is thorough and designed to your benefit.

They are really great here. Organized and professional. I love how they send you things like appointment info via e-​mail. We are first time home buyers and we needed some guidance this tax season and Joe & Bob were great with that.

I’m really not well versed in tax procedure. Typically my taxes would be lumped in with my family’s return, I’d ship off my W-2’s and hope for a fat refund. This year I was on my own, and among the many highlights of 2014 was a huge spike in freelance work, getting a full-​time job and getting married. All of these, as I vaguely understand it, have some influence on your taxes.
I found Colacino through Unilocal and made an appointment as soon as my pay stub’s started showing up in my mailbox. Because of the considerable amount of untaxed 1099 work I had done for the first half of the year, I’d stored a significant amount away, dreading a massive tax bill at the end of the year.
When we showed up, front of the house was a bit disorganized, with people being taken back ahead of their appointment time while others were made to wait. The waiting area cleared out after 15 minutes and we sat down and filled out our new customer forms. We waited 20 minutes before being taken to our preparer, who was very knowledgable. He worked with us to reduce our tax liability by adding deductibles I hadn’t even thought of. We then returned to wait while our taxes were prepared. Many reviews on here cite the wait time as immense, but it’s really not bad. Not nearly the hell’s waiting room that it’s made out to be.
Once our return was prepared, we met with Rich, who walked us through the e-​filing process and what our return would look like. Because I had not taken any exemptions in my W-​2 work, my liability was much smaller than I thought it would be. He gave me a receipt, post-​dated the charge to be debited to my account on Monday, handed us our finished return and told me that taxes for 2014 were done and he would see us next year. My return was a bit more complicated, so the total charged for his services was $ 275 (which he also deducted as an expense). All-​in, it was 2.5 hours for my complicated return to be processed, something that could have conceivably taken me days.
I’d highly recommend Colacino for your tax prep.

I have been a client at Colacino Tax Partners for about 5 years. After today, I will never go back. My husband and I arrived on time for our 1:45p appointment. Long story short, we left around 4:30p without having our taxes done — two people still ahead of us in the queue. Again and again we heard employees blame the President’s Day holiday for the volume and wait time. Unacceptable. This was a matter of the company overbooking appointments on a holiday to maximize the amount of money they’d make at the expense of their clients. That is blatantly disrespectful. And that’s how you lose business. Do not go here, completely awful experience.

These folks are awesome! We have been using them to do our taxes for about 6 years now. As a matter of fact, we moved to Colorado 3 years ago, and still send these guys are taxes.
Give them a try, you’ll be glad you did!

Awful experience!!! We went to the office on recommendation of a friend. Although the experience was highly impersonal, we left feeling fine about our filling. A few weeks later, my husband had a question about his taxes and after being given the run around, he was told that if he have any questions, he has to pay a $ 150/​hour consultation fee. This fee is just to speak with the accountant about the taxes he already filed for us and a service for which we already paid for. Finally, after lots of arguing we were able to speak with him. Turned out that we had to do an amendment, which we agreed to do and pay for. After filing the amendment, my husband noticed a major error on the behalf of the accountant. When he tried to explain it to him, he said that my husband doesn’t know what he is talking about and was extremely condescending. Everything was done via email and once we finally got him on the phone and explained the situation once again he finally understood his error and made appropriate correction. Thinking we were finally done, a month or so later, my husband and I both get letters from the IRS stating that the return calculation is incorrect and it should be significantly less. Overall, the most frustrating experience. I would never use this tax service again.

Last year, I worked as a freelancer for the first time in my life. I typically used to do my taxes myself on Turbo Tax or H&R Block online, but when I got a 1099-​MISC form it was suggested to me that I go to a professional as they could help me save a boatload of money in deductions. I looked this place up and decided to give it a shot.
Before coming in, I decided to see how much tax I would have to cough up if I did it on my own again. After all my estimated deductions, the amount owed was a whopping amount, so I was eager to work with someone at Colacino.
I scheduled an appointment for a weekend in February. I talked to someone who looked at my forms and took down some basic info about 15 minutes after my appointment time, then waited about 1 – 1.5 hours to talk to another tax professional.
I was shocked at what I could expense in my profession. Because I worked from home a few days, I was able to write off my internet and cell phone bills, and even a part of my yearly rent. The man I worked with wrote off the max amount possible for food/​drinks I paid for any type of networking (ie — drinks with old coworkers). I was even able to write off my ComicCon expenses because it counted as «research» for my profession.
At the end of the session, I had saved about $ 1,000 over what I would have paid through H&R Block or Turbo Tax. It was worth the $ 300 fee, but, now that I know about the things I could have expensed, I wonder if I would have saved that much money on my own after all.

Oh my… I used to be such a fan. In the last three months I discovered two things:
1) they never filed my 2012 taxes after billing me and sending me a copy of what they claimed they submitted. Upon discovery, once the IRS sent a letter (in 2014!) requesting that we file, I called them and was basically told «oops – our bad – we forgot to. But since you were owed money you won’t have penalties so no harm no foul»
2) I just got audited for 2011. It turns out they made a mistake on my taxes and there will be penalties this time. When I called they said that they had «dozens and dozens and dozens of audit letters and only one person to process them», so they’ll get to it as soon as they can.
I’m not exactly thrilled as you might imagine.

What everyone said. You wait and wait to see an inputter, then you can leave to walk around as you wait some more to see one of the preparers. I’m waiting right now. Lesson learned, don’t wait until April to do your taxes!

Love this place. My landlord suggested coming here and I haven’t looked back. Great services, efficient and fun.

Last year I did my taxes myself and I owed all this money and I was so sad, guys, super sad, so I ran an experiment: even though my taxes looked pretty straightforward, I took them to my girlfriend’s tax guy Rich Colacino just to see what would happen. And he saved me like a thousand dollars, and that’s after paying him, so that means you’re dumb if you do your taxes yourself. I mean, run the same experiment I did! Maybe it’ll turn out different for you, I don’t know, you and I haven’t really talked about your finances. I feel like you maybe go out to restaurants more than you strictly need to. Maybe you could have gotten two $ 16 cocktails instead of three last Saturday. But who am I to judge? I bet they were tasty. Where’d you get those shoes?
We see Rich and his family around the neighborhood sometimes — cute kid that guy has — and he just did this year’s taxes for me like an hour ago and I’m getting money back, remember when you used to get money back? Shit, right? Like when you were just out of college and you were so poor the government didn’t even want your sad money. You didn’t even think grown-​ups with careers could do that anymore, get refunds. Maybe you can’t, I don’t know. I can. Rich gave me some advice last year and I followed it and now I’m eating fancy soup with refund money, because Soup Bowl is right near the tax place and that’s some great soup there. Prosciutto in that shit. High five, Rich Colacino. Fuck TurboTax.

Colacino Tax partners are so amazing! I was referred by friends who have used them for years. I’m so glad that they did! They really saved me this year, making what felt like a very complicated tax circumstance easy! I absolutely recommend them 100%!!!

I have been seeing Rich about my taxes for 4 years now and I couldn’t recommend them more. Yes, there’s a wait — bring a book and just be ready for it. But it’s true, you’ll walk out with your taxes filed and everything they’ve done crystal clear and — best of all — complete!

Pros: They were professional and friendly. I believe they were very thorough and got me the biggest possible tax refund.
Cons: I was there for 3.5 hours and there was nothing special about my paperwork that was the cause; they simply seem to book their appointments entirely too close together.

They’ve done my taxes for the past couple of years. I wasn’t too impressed the first time because I had to send in additional information* and I couldn’t find out if they actually received the information I sent. I would call and ask, but they said they couldn’t tell me. Then they said they’d call me in five days. After two weeks I started calling back and they still couldn’t tell me whether or not they received the one piece of information they needed to complete my taxes (and I sent that to them fifteen minutes after I left the appointment I had with them).
Finally, when I said that I’d just go somewhere else and could I come pick my papers up so I could give them to another tax preparer, someone actually checked and they had received it (two weeks prior, when I sent it) it but had never given it to the tax preparer. Needless to say, I was pissed but they were apologetic, told me to come by the next day and I had everything wrapped up.
Decided to give them another chance this year (and my taxes were much easier) and I was in and out in 90 minutes. 70 minutes of that was waiting time but the inputter was decent and Rich was great. And they got me a much bigger refund than if I’d done them myself.
Taxes done while you wait… definitely worth the fee.
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*the additional information was due to a change in IRS requirements that year regarding the cost basis for sale of stocks. It hadn’t been a requirement before so that’s why I didn’t have it.

My opinion of Mr. Colacino and company changed dramatically in a span of 15 minutes. Yes, 15 minutes and 2.5 hours.
I was a little discouraged at first. It’s an income tax factory, I thought. 15 or so clients in various states of boredom and lethargy in the waiting area, a hive of at least a dozen worker bees in the back, one set inputting the data for each client, the other set consulting, reviewing numbers, making changes. At the 2-​hour mark (2 hours after my appointment time) I started to get very huffy and puffy, until Mr. Colacino called my name and i suddenly realized the disconnect… they dont properly advertise the service they provide: TAXES DONE WHILE YOU WAIT.
No joke. I’m accustomed to independent accountants and tax preparers who accept all your paperwork, you leave, and they call you in three weeks when your taxes are done. But, oh no, they are done WHILE. YOU. WAIT. Sure, you may wait 3 hours (barely 3 weeks before tax day, mind you) but you walk out of that place with your taxes e-​filed, a copy in your hands, and a lovely branded pen as a gift.
And – side note – their fees? A bargain. I’ve paid accountants nearly 4 figures to do my taxes in the past (as a self-​employed, gay-​married person – a nightmare for tax accountants). the fee I paid the Colacinos was well worth it. I recommend.

If I had known that you can pay less than H & R Block AND get better service from a family business with DECADES of experience, I would have been here years earlier. Never again with that greedy, overprice mill at H&R — I’ll be back to Colacino’s!
However, I’m a newbie to Colacino’s — a very satisfied newbie. They did a thorough job, got me a decent refund and I like the way they run their business. Please do yourself a favor and go to Colacino’s, the sooner the better, they are definitely filling up.

This is my 5^th year with Colacino Tax Partners and I wouldn’t trade them for anything in the world. Being that I have real estate, co-​op fees, etc, I find that trying to figure out my income taxes is a huge waste of time. I prefer that a professional do it and be responsible if I were to be audited. I totally trust Joe and Richard and will continue to use their services going forward as well as recommending them. So far, the 3 people that I recommended seem satisfied.
My only complaint is the lack of privacy in their offices. I really don’t wish to hear about another customers drama, lack of income, etc… and i wouldn’t want anyone to hear mine.
Other than that, they have great service, they are organized, they are fast and efficient, just the way I like my Tax People to be! Plus they have treats once in a while that they share with the clientele.

Friendly staff, super knowledgeable and professional. I saw Rich and he got me ALL my money back:) I didn’t make that much last year though;)
Cheaper than H&R block and better service.