Kostopoulos Peter CPA

Courtney Leigh Pahlke _{on Google}

Jan 2nd, 2021

If you’re a small business owner (especially), please read—DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY! We’re a forty-five year old, family-owned and operated business and my family has been VERY particular with those we choose to do business with... We’ve worked hard, growing our family business as second generation business owners and this company clearly represents the “old school” mentality we’ve heard about, and experienced during the pandemic, when we were asked to. He withheld information regarding our company payroll, unless we submitted to his new excessive fee. We had a one day notice before he dropped our company from payroll, leaving all our employees in the lurch during COVID-19 when they hadn’t received a paycheck due to COVID crisis. We used this company for 9 years, prior to the disgusting behavior we experienced after acquiring our small business loan... and will never do business with this man again. Apparently we’re not the only ones, as we’ve received emails already from others after my business partner’s post . If you have any doubts, please check his YELP reviews!

Garrett Pahlke _{on Google}

Sep 19th, 2020

Do not use this accountant. Peter had no consideration for the 23 employees I have during this pandemic depending on paychecks now more than ever. His spiteful and unprofessional action caused a delay in my staff receiving their checks.
We hired him for 9 years to process our payroll. Last month, we used his service to acquire the PPP loan for my business due to the pandemic. We were able to secure the loan, but afterwards he wanted a seemingly high lump sum fee for bi-weekly “consultation” and “work fees” to manage the loan. When I inquired him about the fees, he responded very rudely and angrily for questioning. Taken aback by his rude response, I decided to use a different accountant to help manage the loan. A week later, I submitted my payroll to Peter’s office to process like I had done for the past 9 years. His staff told me that it will be processed as usual. When I did not hear back from them or received the checks, I called Peter and he told me that he was dropping me as a customer because it was not "profitable” to continue running our payroll. What company/ person gives one day notice to their customer of their dramatic intention after 9 years when it will effect so many people’s income and livelihood!?!? It is my belief that Peter did this intentionally because I did not hire his office for PPP consultation. STAY AWAY!!!!