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LICENSED TAX STRATEGIST

Your Tax Bill is a Design Flaw. We Fix the Design.

Most high-income earners overpay by 40K-100K a year, not because of a bad accountant, but because nobody ever built them a tax architecture. We do.

We don't just file your taxes. We architect your financial foundation and make sure every dollar works as hard as you do.

Quint Tax Planning is the strategic financial partner for business owners, investors, and high-income professionals who refuse to let the tax code work against them. We deliver the insight of a CFO, the precision of an enrolled agent, and the vision of a wealth strategist, in one firm.

The people who keep the most aren’t smarter or luckier. They had someone who built the right structure before the money arrived.

Carlos Quintana, EA
Carlos Quintana, EA · Founder

FOUNDER & SENIOR TAX STRATEGIST

Carlos Quintana

I didn’t come to the U.S. tax system with assumptions. I had to learn every rule from scratch, as an outsider, and earn the credential to practice in it.

And because I didn’t inherit the assumptions, I noticed something most people inside the system never question: the tax code isn’t a punishment. It’s a blueprint.

When I started working with high-income clients (business owners, real estate investors, professionals earning $400K, $600K, $800K a year), I kept seeing the same thing. Smart, successful people handing over enormous checks every April with this look on their face. Not anger. Resignation. Like it was just the cost of doing well.

The issue was never their income. The issue was always their structure, or the absence of it. Nobody had ever built them a tax architecture. They had preparation. They had compliance. But they had never had someone who sat down before the year started and designed the system that determines what’s allowed to happen.

That gap costs the average high earner forty to one hundred thousand dollars a year. Not because they’re doing anything wrong. Because the structure was never built.

— Carlos Quintana, EA · Founder, Quint Tax Planning

WATCH & LEARN

See How a Tax Architecture Comes Together

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PREMIUM SERVICE OFFERINGS

One firm. Three ways to keep more of what you earn.

Whether you need clean books, an accurate return, or a full tax strategy, we build the right solution for where you're going, not where you've been.

  • OFFERING 1

    Tax Planning

    Your tax bill is a design flaw. We redesign it.

    • Year-round planning with written models of each decision before you commit
    • Entity selection, owner compensation design, QBI, and the California PTE elective tax
    • Real estate strategies: short-term rentals, REPS, cost segregation, 1031 exchanges
    • Audit defense by design, with documented strategy memos and quarterly check-ins
  • OFFERING 2

    Tax Preparation

    Filed accurately. Reviewed strategically.

    • Individual returns with multiple K-1s, rentals, stock compensation, crypto, and multi-state residency
    • International and cross-border: FEIE, foreign tax credits, Form 5472, FBAR, 1040-NR, transfer pricing
    • IRS notices, audits, and representation by an Enrolled Agent
    • Every return reviewed by a strategist before it is filed
  • OFFERING 3

    Accounting

    Numbers you can run a business on. From clean books to a CFO at the table.

    • Monthly bookkeeping and close in QuickBooks Online
    • Cleanup and catch-up for books that are behind
    • Fractional CFO: forecasting, pricing, cost reduction, lender and investor packages
    • Books always ready for tax planning

WHAT TO EXPECT

The Process

  1. 01

    Strategy Session

    A 90-minute architectural review of your current structure. We surface the design flaws, quantify the leak, and confirm the fit.

  2. 02

    The Tax Plan

    A written architecture tailored to your income, entities, and goals, modeled with projections and dollar-for-dollar savings figures.

  3. 03

    Implementation

    We execute the structure with you (formations, elections, contributions, payroll, and filings) so the design becomes operational.

  4. 04

    Ongoing Calibration

    Quarterly check-ins and annual recalibration so the architecture continues to perform as your income, entities, and life evolve.

WHO WE SERVE

This is for you if any of these are true.

  • You earn 1M+ and have the quiet, recurring sense you're leaving money on the table every April.

  • You own a business and your CPA only resurfaces at filing time, never before.

  • You invest in real estate but have never run a cost segregation study or used a 1031 strategically.

  • Your entity structure was set up once, years ago, and has never been revisited since.

  • You have cross-border exposure: ITIN clients, foreign nationals, dual-status complexity.

  • You are tired of being prepared for, instead of designed for.

THE DIFFERENCE

Preparation vs. Planning

Most tax professionals file what happened. We design what will happen. The difference is measurable, in dollars.

  • TIMING

    TRADITIONAL TAX PREPARER
    Reactive, after year ends
    QUINT TAX PLANNING
    Proactive, all 12 months
  • SCOPE

    TRADITIONAL TAX PREPARER
    What happened
    QUINT TAX PLANNING
    What will happen
  • ENTITY STRATEGY

    TRADITIONAL TAX PREPARER
    Files what exists
    QUINT TAX PLANNING
    Designs the structure
  • REAL ESTATE OPTIMIZATION

    TRADITIONAL TAX PREPARER
    Reports activity
    QUINT TAX PLANNING
    Engineers the strategy
  • RETIREMENT PLANNING

    TRADITIONAL TAX PREPARER
    Reports contributions
    QUINT TAX PLANNING
    Architects the vehicle
  • CROSS-BORDER

    TRADITIONAL TAX PREPARER
    Rarely available
    QUINT TAX PLANNING
    U.S.–Mexico specialist
  • COMMUNICATION

    TRADITIONAL TAX PREPARER
    April only
    QUINT TAX PLANNING
    Year-round, proactive

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