Johnson Hankins MacDonald Kimball & Co

This review is for Dave Reimer. My spouse and I have not worked with any other members of this group and therefore our remarks are specific to Mr. Reimer.
Our initial meeting with Dave was positive, and we had high hopes of being able to work with Dave regarding our family and business taxes for many years. But this year, his carelessness and lack of attention left us scrambling to complete our taxes elsewhere days before they were due. Dave made it very clear that we were not a priority for him, and that completing our taxes correctly was something he was either incapable of or uninterested in doing. Our questions were met with either no response, or a response clearly indicating he had not read the organized financial information we had given him. With the tax deadline looming and significant errors in our tax documents unresolved, we saw no other option but to pursue help elsewhere where additional errors were found. These errors were not in our favor and would have subjected us to IRS penalties had we been audited after submitting Dave’s version of our tax documents.
At no point did Dave ever acknowledge that he made any kind of error. We would gladly have continued working with him had he simply acknowledged his mistakes and made every effort to correct them, or had he addressed our questions if the misunderstanding had been on our end. That said, we are somewhat glad he didn’t since we would not have found the additional errors discovered later.
We will never be utilizing services from Dave again and we would encourage those who do use his services to use extreme caution in evaluating your tax documents. Had we not looked carefully this year, we would never have known there was a problem.

This review is for John Griffin, my new accountant. I had some difficulty finding their location, which is off the main street and surrounded by a ton of apartment complexes. Don’t worry though, their company is legit. It’s been there since the 1950’s, before the apartments were built. Mr. Griffin has been doing taxes since 1985. I found him to be extremely knowledgeable and confident, yet friendly and easy to work with.
He didn’t try to sell me extra services and even gave me a discount because my taxes were not complicated this year. He is honest and won’t recommend deductions that will draw the attention of the IRS. However, he did recommend some methods to cut my overall tax liability. In order to get the most out of your meeting, though, you should know some basics about taxes.
I usually do my taxes myself with Turbo Tax and I stress myself out over the tiny details. Mr. Griffin handled my taxes with ease. Definitely going back again next year!

ZERO stars for Dave Riemer.
We used him for two years. He came to our clinic as a guest speaker and tried to get us to use him for our taxes. I gave him a try.
My first experience was good and gave me some good tips. I referred him two of my colleagues as well.
Things drastically changed after the second season. We brought our tax forms in at the second of Feb, pretty early on. He waited til April 14^th to turn it back to us. I kept on emailing him and I got absolutely no response. My husband needed him to fill out a special for some reimbursement and he did not return our emails, phone messages.
We were not sure why he did not return our phone calls, and we warned him that if he did not return our tax forms on time we would have to pursue legal actions. He returned our email immediately. He was extremely unprofessional, negligence and appeared very snobby. we could not believe what professional CPA would do what he did!
The problem doesn’t stop here, we just found out he overcalculated our state income tax by $ 4000 for 2010. He is by far the worst CPA I have ever worked with.
We have a new CPA now in San Francisco, we are so much happier with her. She returns phone calls and emails within 24 hours and provided me with tons of information. I have told my friends to stop going to Dave Riemer and switch to my current CPA in San Francisco.

Dave Riemer at JHMK has been my CPA for 3 years now. As my business has grown, Dave has been there to help. What started as a 1x/​year conversation about taxes has matured into an ongoing discussion about taxes, bookkeeping, growth strategy, retirement funds, insurance, investment strategy, and more. I’m looking forward to working with Dave and JHMK for years to come!