Book a Business Tax Consultation - Fifteen Free Minutes on Your LLC or S Corp Numbers
Not a sales call and not an intake screener. Fifteen minutes with Amid Kobakival, TrueArc's founder - more than a decade in tax and accounting, including training at Crowe LLP, a top-10 U.S. accounting firm. You'll leave knowing whether your entity still fits the income you're actually making, the one or two things costing you the most right now, and a flat fee if you want one.
Or skip the calendar and call (818) 297-4579.
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What you'll leave with
Fifteen minutes is short, which is why it’s spent on three things rather than ten. Here is exactly what they are – and what this call deliberately isn’t.
Whether your entity still fits your income.
Sole proprietor, LLC, or S corp - we take the setup you have and hold it against the income you are actually making, then put a rough annual figure on what changing it would be worth. That is a business tax savings analysis run on your numbers, live on the call, not a bracket lifted off a brochure.
The one or two things costing you the most.
Deductions that never got claimed, quarterly estimates still running off a figure from two years ago, an S corp salary nobody has revisited since the election. Fifteen minutes will not surface everything - it surfaces the largest one or two, and in a business your size that is usually where most of the money is.
A flat fee, if you want one.
If working together makes sense, you get the number on the call and again in writing the same day. One flat fee, quoted before any work starts, and it is the number on the invoice. If it does not make sense, you get that answer instead, and there is nothing to turn down.
What you won't get
- No pitch deck. There isn't one.
- No follow-up sequence. One confirmation, one reminder, and after the call, nothing unless you ask.
- No quote that changes later. If scope changes, the quote changes before the work does - never after.
- No pressure to be a client. Some of these calls end with "your setup is fine, come back when your income jumps." That's a legitimate outcome, and you'll hear it if it's the true one.
Pick a time
No credit card, ever · Reschedule or cancel in one click · One confirmation and one reminder - no sales sequence
Nothing open that works? Call (818) 297-4579 or send a message with two or three times that suit you. During filing season there are usually slots that aren't on the public calendar - including early mornings and evenings.
Prefer to skip the calendar entirely? Call (818) 297-4579, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Pacific.
Optional prep
How to make fifteen minutes count
If you have thirty seconds: Last year's business return. One document answers more questions than ten minutes of conversation - entity type, income, what was deducted, how the estimates were set.
If you have two minutes: Add a rough figure for what the business has brought in so far this year, and a one-line description of how your bookkeeping actually happens today. "QuickBooks, mostly current," "a spreadsheet my spouse updates," and "nothing since March" are all useful answers.
If something specific triggered this: Have it in front of you - an IRS or FTB notice, a letter from the Secretary of State, a broker or a friend who told you to "go S corp." The specific thing is usually the fastest route to the real question.
If you haven't started the business yet: Just bring what you'll be doing and what you expect to make in the first year. That's genuinely enough to run the entity math on.
And if you have none of it - no return, no numbers, no idea where to start - book anyway. That's a normal call. Most useful conversations here begin with a rough number and one honest question.
The most common reason people book
S corp tax consultation: bring your numbers, leave with the math
"Everyone keeps telling me I should be an S corp" is the single most common sentence on these calls. It's also a question with an actual answer, and fifteen minutes is usually enough to get it.
Bring a rough figure for your net self-employment income and we'll run it: what the self-employment tax saving would actually be at your numbers, what a defensible salary looks like, and what the payroll and compliance costs on the other side of the ledger would run. The number to watch for is about $70,000 of net income - our calculator turns net-positive nearer $48,000, but below $70,000 payroll absorbs the margin. If you're under it, you'll hear that on the call rather than a quote.
If you'd rather see the numbers before speaking to anyone, the free LLC vs S corp calculator takes about three minutes. Bring the result to the call and we'll pressure-test it together. If you already know you want it handled, business setup and entity selection is the lane - including late elections, when the deadline has already gone by.
The person on the call is the person who signs the return
There is no sales team here, so there is no one to hand you to. Your call is with Amid Kobakival, TrueArc's founder - more than a decade in tax and accounting, including training at Crowe LLP, a top-10 U.S. accounting firm, preparing and reviewing returns across every major entity type. If you work with us, he leads your engagement; if you don't, he'll be the first to let you know you're already in good shape.
TrueArc is a CTEC-registered tax preparation and bookkeeping practice, not a licensed CPA firm. More about the practice →
CTEC-Registered Tax Preparer · Authorized IRS e-file Provider · QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor, Levels 1 & 2 · B.A. Economics, UCLA
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Business tax consultation questions, answered before you book
Is the business tax consultation really free, or is there a catch?
Genuinely free, and there’s no card, no trial, and no “free for the first fifteen minutes then billed.” The reason it’s free is unglamorous: fifteen minutes is roughly what it takes to know whether we can help you, and charging for that would mostly filter out the people we’d be best for. If working together makes sense you’ll get a flat-fee quote; if it doesn’t you’ll get a straight answer and that’s the end of it.
How soon can I get an appointment - is same-day or next-day possible?
Usually within a few business days, and same-day happens more often than you’d think in the quieter months. If you’re up against a real deadline – a September 15 extended S corp return, a January 15 estimate, a notice with a response date on it – say so when you book, or just call (818) 297-4579. Deadline calls get moved forward, and there are usually times available that aren’t on the public calendar.
What should I have ready before the tax consultation?
Nothing, strictly. If you have thirty seconds, last year’s business return answers more than ten minutes of conversation. If you have two minutes, add a rough figure for this year and a one-line description of how your bookkeeping happens today. If you have none of it, book anyway – that’s a normal call, not a wasted one.
Is this actually a sales call? What happens if I say no?
What happens is nothing. One confirmation email, one reminder, and after the call there is no follow-up sequence, because there isn’t one to put you in. Some of these calls end with “your setup is fine, come back when your income jumps,” which is a legitimate outcome and the only reason the rest of the answers on this page are worth anything.
What if I need to reschedule or cancel the time I booked?
One click, from the link in your confirmation email, and no explanation is needed or wanted. Rescheduling is not a mark against you and it does not go on a list; the practice would genuinely rather move a call than have you sit through one at a bad moment.
Can fifteen minutes actually tell me anything useful about my taxes?
About one or two things, properly – not everything. Fifteen minutes is enough to look at how your business is structured against what it’s actually earning, spot the largest thing being left on the table, and size it roughly. It is not enough to review a return line by line, and anyone promising that in a free call is describing a sales appointment. If your situation genuinely needs longer, you’ll be told that on the call rather than discovering it afterward.
I want to talk about an S corp specifically. Is this the right call to book?
Yes – it’s the most common reason people book one. Bring a rough net-income figure and you’ll leave knowing what the self-employment tax saving would be at your numbers, what a defensible salary looks like, and what the payroll and compliance costs would run against it. If the honest answer at your income is “not yet,” you’ll get that, along with the number to watch for.
Pick a time. Get the three answers. Decide nothing today.
Bring last year's return, or a rough income figure, or just the question that brought you here. You'll leave knowing whether your structure still fits, what you're most likely leaving on the table, and what working together would cost as one flat fee. If the honest answer is that you don't need us yet, you'll leave with that - and with the number to watch for.
Or call (818) 297-4579 · email contact@truearctax.com
Video or phone. No card, one-click reschedule, no follow-up sequence.