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Tax preparation and planning

The value is not completing the return. It is seeing the decision while there is still time to make it.

Because D&J maintains the accounting for many of the same clients whose returns it prepares, planning happens during the year — not in April, when the options have already closed.

Business returns

  • Federal and Illinois business tax filings
  • Entity-tax planning and elections
  • Owner compensation and distribution planning
  • Estimated-tax calculations and scheduling
  • Payroll-tax considerations tied to the filings
  • Depreciation and equipment timing
  • Prior-year, late and amended returns
  • Multi-entity and related-party filings

Individual returns

  • Federal and Illinois individual tax filings
  • Owner and household planning reviewed together
  • Estimated payments and withholding adjustments
  • Investment, rental and pass-through income
  • Multistate filings where applicable
  • Life and business transitions
  • Prior-year and amended returns
  • Support for lender or agency requests
Planning calendar

When decisions are actually available

Most of what changes a tax result has to happen before the year ends. This is the sequence D&J works to.

Q1

Prior-year filings and extensions, first estimated payment, and a review of what last year revealed about the structure.

Q2

Mid-year profitability check, owner compensation review, and adjustments to estimates before they compound.

Q3

Equipment and capital timing, entity election deadlines, retirement-plan decisions, and a projection of the year.

Q4

Final planning window — timing of income and expense, distributions, payroll true-ups, and documentation cleanup.

General information, not advice

Nothing on this page is tax advice for a specific situation. Tax outcomes depend on your facts, records and periods, and no particular saving or refund can be promised.
Next step

Start the tax intake

Tell us whether the filing is business or individual, which periods are involved, and whether prior years are outstanding. We will confirm what is needed and what it will cost before work starts.

Request a tax preparation and planning review

Tell us whether the return is individual or business, and which periods are involved.

Sensitive documents are exchanged through ClientHub, not this form. Nothing submitted here creates an engagement until scope and fees are confirmed in writing.

Next step

Filing is a deadline. Planning is a decision — and it has its own calendar.

Work with Joaquin Gonzalez, CPA and D&J for business accounting, CFO guidance, tax planning, and experienced representation throughout Chicagoland.