Steel Guarde, LLC

Jul 13th, 2023

Outstanding service and reasonable rates - highly recommend Blake for tax prep!
Jan 29th, 2023

Steel Guarde has great professional, professional service. We've been working with Blake for something like 10 years for our business and personal taxes. We moved to another state, and we still rely on Blake to support our tax needs. He's personable, helpful, responsive, and knowledgeable. If you have a question, he's got the answers. If you get a letter from the IRS, and don't know what to do or how to do it. He'll square everything away for you. SG will make sure you have the papers you need to file your taxes. Blake thinks of ways we can optimize our taxes and always gets things completed in time, even when we, the client, dropped the ball. Reception has always been nice as well.
Jan 21st, 2022

Dec 20th, 2021

I do not recommend this business. I wanted to support a local ballard business but boy was that a mistake.  The first experience was in 2016 with Ruth who suggested I give up my business because (that year) I wasn't making a big income, and my second time in 2017 hiring this odd company I worked with one of the owners Blake who forgot to ask me about a very standard Heath insurance form bc I got my insurance through Washington health exchange. That is a typical question that even the H and R Block online software asks. And therefore after filing with the irs by paying these people I received a letter from the irs asking for additional information that Blake forgot to file!! He was NOT apologetic at all (just short sentences, no sorry or acknowledgement of his MISTAKE) or really interested in rectifying the issue with any type of customer centric behavior. When he supposedly fixed the problem I got a SECOND email from the irs noting that  "figures from line 25 of form 8962 were not transferred to lines 27 and 29." I sent that to Blake expressing I was disappointed and wouldn't work with them again... no response! A very uncomfortable experience. Especially if you are a woman or freelancer/small proprietor/ small biz I'd suggest going elsewhere.
Aug 17th, 2021