The quote comes first
You know the price before any work starts. If the situation turns out to be more complicated than it looked, you hear that before the work is done, not on the invoice.
About
Meet Maritza
A tax preparer in Garland, Texas, working with individuals, business owners, and families settling an estate.
Maritza Jones spent twelve years as a Senior Tax Analyst at H&R Block, from 2012 through the 2025 filing season. She prepares tax returns the way she would want her own handled: slowly enough to get them right, and plainly enough that the person signing understands what they are signing.
Her practice covers a wider range than most independent preparers. Alongside individual and family returns, she prepares partnership, S corporation, C corporation, and nonprofit returns, and the estate, trust, and gift tax filings that follow a death or a large gift. Those are the returns that often get referred somewhere else. Clients who work with her do not have to go find a second person for the harder half of their situation.
She works with people at the moments when taxes stop being routine: a first year in business, a partnership that added someone, a parent's estate, a few years of unfiled returns that have started to feel unmanageable. None of those are emergencies to her, and none of them come with a lecture.
Maritza is Salvadoran, and she volunteers with the Consulado de El Salvador in Dallas. A good part of her practice has always been neighbors who would simply rather explain their situation in Spanish, and who want to be certain the person handling their money understands exactly what they mean. She works in both languages, all the way through, from the first phone call to the last signature.
How she works
What stays constant
One person, start to finish
No handoffs between seasonal staff and no call-center queue. The person who asks the first question is the one who signs off on the return.
Plain language, always
Form numbers and tax vocabulary are her job, not yours. Anything on your return can be explained in ordinary words, and she would rather explain it twice than have you nod along.
English or Spanish
Maritza works fluently in both, so a return can be prepared and explained in whichever language you would rather ask questions in.
In person or virtually
She works with clients directly, whether that means sitting down together in Garland or handling everything by phone, email, and secure file sharing from anywhere in the country.
Reachable in the off season
An IRS letter in August, a mid-year question about a new hire, a change that might affect next April. Those are normal reasons to call, not impositions.
Working with her
Most people start by describing their situation in a sentence or two. That is enough for Maritza to tell you which returns are involved and what it will cost.