Tax Strategy vs. Tax Compliance

The difference is crucial for your clients!

While tax compliance (following the tax laws laid out by the IRS) is a necessary component of any company’s tax plan, there are lots of ways to reduce the amount of taxes your clients need to pay.

You need a CPA firm that will go beyond the compliance work and will proactively plan the best tax strategies for your clients, saving them lots of money, and making them appreciate you, their wealth manager, even more!

At our firm, we collaborate with our wealth managers in order to offer their high net-worth individual and business clients with customized tax strategies based on their specific situations. You as the wealth manager play a critical role in helping our firm understand your clients’ future goals and cash requirements.

At Averkamp CPA Group, we continually monitor any changes to the tax laws and legislation to ensure the tax strategy is adjusted on an ongoing basis. We utilize bespoke and top-of-the-line software to analyze clients’ personal and corporate activities. We then generate a customized tax savings strategy report and provide this to your clients.

Our team of experts combine the necessary tax compliance work while using these tax strategies to ensure your clients are in full compliance with all the tax laws, while at the same time saving them as much money as we can.

In many cases, our firm also provides the accounting and bookkeeping services and/or part-time CFO services to your clients, to help them thrive and become even more successful.

Reach out today to see how our firm can help you and your wealth management firm today!

Averkamp CPA Group - Wealth Managers

Advisor and client tax support

CPA tax coordination for wealth managers, RIAs, and their clients.

Use these resources to identify tax preparation issues, projection needs, filing-position questions, and documentation opportunities before portfolio, retirement, charitable, liquidity, or estate conversations reach tax filing season.

No investment advice: Averkamp CPA Group does not provide investment advice, manage assets, recommend securities, select investments, or decide portfolio transactions. We support advisors and clients with tax preparation, tax projections, filing-position review, documentation, tax-return reporting, and CPA coordination. Investment, legal, insurance, and estate-document decisions should be made with the appropriate licensed advisors.
This page is general educational information and does not guarantee tax savings or a specific result. Tax treatment depends on facts, records, timing, law changes, advisor implementation, and final filing positions.

Tax Planning Support

Coordinate projections, documentation, filing-position review, and tax preparation support for advisory clients.

Capital Gains and Tax-Loss Harvesting

Review gains, losses, wash sale records, capital loss carryovers, Schedule D reporting, and cash needed for taxes.

Roth Conversion and Retirement Income

Project Roth conversion tax, retirement-income tax, withholding, estimated payments, Form 8606 issues, and cash needs.

RMD and QCD Planning

Coordinate RMDs, QCDs, withholding, Form 1099-R reporting, charitable records, and estimated-tax needs.

Charitable Giving Tax Strategy

Review charitable documentation, appreciated-property gifts, Form 8283, bunching, QCDs, and itemized deduction questions.

Business Owner Exit and Liquidity Events

Project tax from business sales, equity payouts, stock versus asset sale reporting, estimated payments, and transaction records.

Equity Compensation Tax Review

Coordinate RSU, ISO, NSO, ESPP, AMT, withholding, estimated-tax, Form 3921, and Form 3922 records.

K-1 and Private Fund Tax Support

Review K-1s, alternative investment reporting, passive activity limits, basis, state filings, and extension planning.

Trust, Estate, and Inherited IRA Tax

Coordinate Form 1041, inherited IRA reporting, fiduciary income, beneficiary records, RMD issues, and tax preparation.

Advisor-CPA Document Checklist

Gather Forms 1099, K-1s, retirement records, charitable documentation, basis schedules, estimates, and planning assumptions.