Virginia Haga, EA
I started in tax at nineteen, working a season at H&R Block alongside my mother and my aunt. My mother went on to open her own tax practice and ran it for thirty-five years. I worked in it, then I ran it, and by the time I sold it in 2023 it served about 250 clients: families, small companies, rental owners, and the bookkeeping and payroll that some of those businesses needed done every month.
After the sale I went to work for other firms, and I saw the same thing everywhere. The work was done after the year was over. Nobody was in the file in June, when a decision could still change what a client owed in April. That is the gap this firm exists to close.
Two things drive the work: savings and compliance, in that order. When a new client’s file arrives, the first thing I look for is what the last firm missed. The second is mistakes on earlier returns, because those do not go away on their own; they sit there until the IRS finds them. Fixing them before that happens is part of the job.
I earned my Enrolled Agent license in 2020 and have represented clients in IRS exams, penalty matters, and collection cases since, across the table from revenue agents and revenue officers. That work shapes how I prepare a return. Everything I file, I am prepared to defend.
What ‘EA’ means
An Enrolled Agent is licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to practice before the Internal Revenue Service. It is the only federal tax credential there is.
Earning it takes a three-part examination covering individual tax, business tax, and representation, a background check, and continuing education every year to keep it.
What it means for you: an Enrolled Agent may represent you before the IRS on any tax matter, at any IRS office, whatever state you live in.
How I work
I answer within one business day. There is a voicemail, and I return the calls.
I personally look at every return before it is filed. That was true when I owned my first practice, and it is true here.
Everything moves through a secure client portal: documents, questions, approvals, signatures. Nothing sensitive travels by email.
The firm is me, today. I have filed payroll taxes as a reporting agent and prepared every kind of return a family or a small company files. When I add people, this page will say so, and one thing will not change: I will still be the last set of eyes on every return.
Where I draw the line
No one-off work. I do not take a single return, a single letter, or a stand-alone IRS case. Every client is a subscriber, because the savings come from being in the file all year, not from seeing it once.
Inside the rules, every time. If a position cannot be defended to the IRS, I will not take it, whoever asks.
Some matters need a tax attorney. Tax Court, and anything that has turned criminal, is one of them. I will say so, make the introduction, and stay on as your preparer.
Not Oregon. Oregon licenses tax preparers separately and I am not licensed there, so I do not take Oregon residents.