I prepare your return myself, and I quote the price before I start.

Physicians and dentists arrive in three shapes whose problems barely overlap. The employed physician on a hospital W-2, who cannot deduct the CME, the license renewal, or the loupes, because TCJA suspended unreimbursed employee business expenses. The practice owner running payroll and filing an 1120-S. The group partner who got a K-1 instead of a paycheck, had nothing withheld all year, and owes the tax in four estimated payments due April 15, June 15, and September 15, 2026, and January 15, 2027.

That last one has a timing problem built into it. The partnership return is not due until March 16, so the K-1 often lands with a few weeks left before April 15. April is a bad month to find out what you owe.

Engineers are the second group. The questions there run to whether a contract should be taken as W-2 or 1099, how equipment gets treated, and what a project that touched three states does to a return. Both groups have their own page: medical and engineering.

The fee is flat and quoted before I start. What separates it from most flat fees is where the number comes from. Most flat-fee firms set it by feel, an experienced preparer's sense of what a return like yours usually runs. Mine comes from a complexity score built out of countable things: income sources, states filed, schedules and forms required, entities involved, transaction volume, foreign accounts, and how much prior-year cleanup is sitting in front of the current year.

You get that estimate in writing before any work begins. When the return is finished and the real complexity is confirmed, the price settles against the same scale. It can move up or down, and you see the reason before you see the number. Pricing shows what pushes a score in each direction.

Every step shows Not Started, In Progress, or Complete, with a progress bar telling you three of five are done. It runs in Tax Nucleus, which also holds a document vault organized by tax year, household accounts so a spouse's return sits under the same login, and an AI research assistant called Ask NucleI that answers tax questions with sources you can expand and check yourself. Documents never travel as email attachments.

The public client login is still being finalized, so existing clients coordinate through the contact form for now. The portal page walks through what is in there.

Tell me what your year looked like and I will tell you what it takes to do it properly, roughly what that costs, and whether you need me at all. No charge, no obligation, no follow-up sequence afterward. One person is a hard ceiling, so if I do not have room to give your return the time it needs, you will hear that on the call instead of in May.

On timing: if your documents are in by mid-March, April 15 is comfortable. Start later than that and a new engagement usually means Form 4868, which moves the filing deadline to October 15, 2027 and moves nothing else. Anything owed is still due April 15 and interest runs from that date. Extensions are ordinary. They are better chosen than discovered.

There is no phone number or email address anywhere on this site, and that is deliberate. Published contact details end up on scraper and robocall lists. How documents and access are handled is written out, and the contact form is the way in.