Erling Brakke, CPA, PLLC is a client centric boutique financial services firm. We provide creative, responsive, and professional tax planning and compliance services. We love problem solving and thrive at helping clients navigate the overly complex world of tax regulations. We offer practical solutions and help clients implement our recommendations using a systemized streamlined approach.

Our clients are entrepreneurs in a broad range of industries including professional services such as medical, dental, and architecture as well as construction, manufacturing, energy and real estate.

We have specialized knowledge in real estate with many clients involved in one or more areas of real estate including brokerage, agents, home builders, property renovators (flippers), hard money lenders and investors in single family, multi-family, and commercial real estate. We have direct real estate experience having owned rental properties, flipped properties, and hard money lending.

We embrace technology and utilize industry leading software throughout our business. We prefer to be on the leading edge of techology versus trying to catch up. We started 2021 with all new systems and processes and will continue to upgrade to ensure that we stay at the front of the curve.

We have a depth of resources at our dipsoal within our network to provide needed insight into specific client situations. This includes tax planning and implementation sytems,tax research software and tax preparation software that is used the largest accounting firms in the world. We're members of an exclusive nationwide tax planning group that is facilitated by a tax attorney. We routinely work with other professionals to deliver high value results to our clients.

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