Turn Your Business Into a Profit-Generating Machine
Where Successful Business Owners Master Growth & Tax Strategy
We combine advanced tax strategy & financial management with business advisory to help established owners ($250K-$2.5M+ Revenue) build more profitable, systematized businesses. Whether you need ongoing business services, tax resolution support, or estate & trust planning, our solutions transform your financial challenges into strategic advantages.
Why Even Growing Businesses Leave Money on the Table
- Your complex tax & accounting situation consumes time that should be spent on growth
- Multiple advisors give disconnected, sometimes contradicting guidance that ignore your goals
- Tax planning happens once a year instead of driving monthly or quarterly decisions
- Business growth and personal tax strategies work against each other
- Financial complexity increases with every new level of success
Your Partner in Building a More Profitable Financial Future
At Corridor Consulting, we transform how successful business owners approach their finances through advanced tax strategy and business optimization systems. While serving established businesses, our founder James C. Yochum, CPA discovered something critical: even sophisticated business owners were losing opportunities through reactive tax planning and disconnected business decisions. This insight led to the development of our proprietary business advancement systems that turn financial complexity into a strategic advantage for growth-focused owners.
Here's How We Drive Business Growth & Tax Savings:
- Strategic Foundation: We transform your financial operations from a burden into your greatest competitive advantage
- Advanced Systems: Our proprietary methodologies turn complex finances into clear strategy
- Complete Protection Comprehensive tax strategy and resolution services that protect your wealth
- Proven Transformation: Our systematic approach helps successful businesses keep more of what they’ve built while reducing their time investment
- Growth Partnership From financial foundation to complete business transformation, we guide your journey every step
- Strategic Support Quick answers and proactive guidance from a team that truly understands where you want to go
Our Approach Is Different:
We focus exclusively on business owners who have already achieved success but want to multiply their results. We build sophisticated financial systems that protect and grow your wealth – all while giving you back your time.
Here's what you'll achieve
Freedom to lead your business
Your evenings and weekends become yours again. Our systematic approach handles all accounting and tax compliance, so you can focus on strategic growth and spending time with those who matter most.
Peace of Mind Guaranteed
Sleep better knowing your finances are managed by experts. With our proactive tax planning and IRS representation, you’re protected from costly mistakes and surprise tax bills.
Growth Without the Grind
Transform from number-cruncher to strategic leader. Our technology integration and process improvement strategies help you develop systems to scale your business while working less, not more.
More Profit, Less Paperwork
Uncover hidden opportunities while reducing your workload. Our proactive approach helps identify tax savings and profit opportunities you’re currently missing.
Your Time Back, Guaranteed
Reclaim 10+ hours every week for you & your staff. Our systems handle the financial details so you can be present for life’s important moments instead of buried in QuickBooks.
Let's Transform Your Financial Future
We combine advanced tax strategy & financial management with business advisory to help established owners ($250K-$2.5M+ Revenue) build more profitable, systematized businesses. Whether you need ongoing business services, tax resolution support, or estate & trust planning, our solutions transform your financial challenges into strategic advantages.
Your Path to Financial Excellence
Step 1: Share Your Vision
Through our Strategic Assessment, and our Discovery Chat we’ll understand your unique situation and goals. This focused evaluation helps us identify immediate opportunities while ensuring our solutions align perfectly with your needs.
Step 2: Strategic Planning & Solution Design
Based on your needs – whether business optimization, tax resolution, legacy planning, or estate settlement – we’ll develop your customized action plan. Our proven process integrates advanced tax strategies with practical solutions that address your immediate concerns while building for the future
Step 3: Implementation & Growth
Watch as our systematic approach transforms your financial situation. You’ll gain clarity, confidence, and control – whether through optimized business operations, resolved tax issues, or guided estate administration.
Why our clients partner with us
- For Business Growth: Our clients increase profits, improve margins, and reclaim their time while saving thousands in taxes through our systematic approach to business management and tax strategy
- For Tax Resolution: Our clients never have to face the IRS alone – we handle all communications and represent them as their Power of Attorney, while delivering ethical, real solutions to complex tax problems
- For Estate & Trust: Our clients benefit from our detailed tax analysis that often uncovers significant tax savings opportunities for estates and beneficiaries. We analyze filing elections, timing strategies, and distribution options to minimize taxes, while guiding executors and beneficiaries through complex estate administration
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Trusted By Business Owners & Individuals Across America
FAQ
We transform how successful business owners ($250K-$2.5M+ Revenue) approach their finances through advanced tax strategy and business optimization systems. Our integrated approach aligns your accounting and tax strategy with your overall financial goals, while working seamlessly with your existing advisors – attorneys, financial planners, and wealth managers. Rather than replacing your advisory team, we ensure your tax and accounting strategies support and enhance their recommendations. Explore our FAQs below to learn how we help established businesses and individuals build stronger financial futures through strategic tax planning and comprehensive accounting solutions.
Building Your Business Foundation
Every successful business needs to maintain a solid financial foundation. Our comprehensive approach helps you build efficient systems, optimize tax strategies, and create sustainable growth.
I'm only looking for tax preparation - should we work together?
While we can begin our relationship with tax preparation, our most successful clients benefit from our complete business approach. Starting with tax prep gives us valuable insights into your business that we can use to identify opportunities for systemization, tax savings, and profit improvement. Think of tax preparation as the first step in transforming your business operations.
How do tax planning and preparation work together in your system?
Tax Planning is a proactive approach to managing your tax situation. It involves strategizing and implementing a tailored plan through a series of consultations and deliverables to ensure you maximize tax efficiency and address every aspect of your tax situation.
Tax Preparation, on the other hand, is the compliance portion of the process. This involves gathering necessary documents, preparing your tax returns, and filing them with federal and state agencies to ensure full compliance with tax laws.
Our approach combines both: we handle compliance while implementing year-round strategies that reduce taxes and improve business performance. This integrated approach typically saves our clients $30,000+ annually while building more efficient operations.
How does your tax savings approach differ from traditional CPAs?
Rather than just finding deductions, we analyze your entire business structure and operations. This comprehensive approach often uncovers opportunities in entity structure, compensation strategy, and operational efficiency that basic deduction hunting misses. Our new clients typically realize $13,000+ in tax savings through optimized entity structures alone.
What makes your accounting services different?
We don’t just record transactions – we build systems that give you better business intelligence. Our accounting services are designed to reduce your time investment while providing insights that drive better decisions. This includes custom dashboards, automated workflows, and regular strategy sessions to interpret your numbers.
How do you work with businesses that have in-house bookkeepers?
We frequently partner with in-house teams, providing strategic oversight and tax expertise while your staff handles day-to-day operations. This collaboration ensures your internal team maintains books in alignment with tax strategy while maximizing efficiency. As your business grows, we can also provide fractional CFO services to guide overall financial strategy.
What's the first step in working together?
We begin with a comprehensive Discovery Chat. This session provides a clear roadmap for implementing our solutions and typically identifies immediate tax saving opportunities. From there, we create a custom implementation plan based on your specific needs and goals.
Protecting Your Business Success
As your business grows and becomes more valuable, protecting what you’ve built becomes crucial. Tax challenges can threaten even the most successful businesses, which is why we provide proactive protection and resolution services when needed.
What are your current rates for tax resolution services?
Our tax resolution services are priced based on the complexity of your situation. Unlike many tax resolution companies, we take a different approach:
- We start with a Strategy Session to thoroughly understand your tax challenges
- We then obtain Power of Attorney to access your IRS records and investigate your options
- Only after we’re confident we can help, do we provide a firm quote for resolution services
This measured approach sets us apart from non-CPA tax resolution companies that often demand large upfront payments while promising unrealistic “pennies on the dollar” settlements. We prioritize transparency and only take on cases where we believe we can achieve meaningful results.
Most importantly, we’re your existing CPA firm, not just a resolution company. This means we not only solve immediate tax issues but also implement systems to prevent future problems – protecting the business we’ve helped you build.
What should I do if I receive an IRS notice?
Don’t ignore it! Reach out to us immediately. We can help review the notice, explain its implications, and recommend the best course of action. Ignoring the notice is the worst thing you can do, but contacting the IRS directly without a professional’s analysis can also lead to unintended consequences. Let us guide you through the process to ensure the best possible outcome.
What should I do if my payroll taxes are overdue?
Payroll taxes are a priority for the IRS, and penalties can be severe. We can help you set up a payment plan and work toward compliance.
Can the IRS really take my assets or garnish my wages?
Yes, if you owe back taxes and fail to address them, the IRS can issue liens, levies, or wage garnishments. Resolving your tax issues promptly can prevent or stop such actions.
Can the IRS shut down my business?
Yes, the IRS can seize business assets to satisfy unpaid taxes. It’s critical to act quickly to resolve issues before they escalate.
Can the IRS contact my vendors and request documents about my business?
Yes, the IRS can issue a summons to your vendors or other third parties, such as suppliers or clients, to obtain records related to your business. These documents might include invoices, payment histories, or contracts. This typically happens when the IRS is trying to verify your income, expenses, or assets to determine your tax liability or to collect unpaid taxes.
If you’re worried about the IRS involving your vendors, it’s important to act quickly. Resolving your tax issues proactively can prevent these escalations. Our firm can help you address IRS concerns, protect your business relationships, and find a resolution to your tax challenges.
Can the IRS require my customers to pay them before me or my business?
Yes, the IRS can issue a Notice of Levy to your customers or clients, requiring them to pay the IRS directly instead of paying you or your business. This is a common enforcement action taken when a business has unpaid tax liabilities, particularly payroll taxes or other significant debts.
I've been told I can settle my tax debt for pennies on the dollar is this true?
The idea of settling tax debt for “pennies on the dollar” is a common claim, but it’s important to approach such promises with caution. While the IRS does offer programs like the Offer in Compromise (OIC) to settle tax debt for less than the full amount owed, these agreements are highly conditional and require strict qualifications.
For an OIC to be accepted, the IRS must determine that:
- You are unable to pay the full amount owed within the collection period, even through a payment plan.
- Your offer represents the most the IRS believes they can collect based on your income, assets, and financial circumstances.
Evaluating whether an OIC is a viable option requires a lengthy process of gathering and reviewing all your financial information, including income, expenses, and assets. While the fees charged by many tax resolution companies may be fair for the work involved in preparing the OIC, what is not fair is submitting an application that clearly doesn’t meet the IRS’s outlined requirements—something many companies do knowingly. This often leaves taxpayers in the same financial position, minus thousands of dollars in fees, with a rejected OIC and no viable resolution.
At Corridor Consulting, we take a realistic and ethical approach to tax resolution.
- We start with a Strategy Session to gain a thorough understanding of your tax challenges.
- From there, we proceed with a full investigation by obtaining a Power of Attorney for tax purposes, allowing us to access your IRS records and determine the best resolution strategy for your situation.
- We only proceed if, in our professional opinion, a viable solution exists.
This measured approach sets us apart from unregulated, non-CPA tax resolution companies that prioritize collecting fees over providing genuine solutions. Our goal is to deliver resolutions that truly work for your circumstances, whether that involves an OIC, a payment plan, penalty abatement, or another IRS program.
At Corridor Consulting, we prioritize transparency, honesty, and effective solutions tailored to your needs.
Will you contact the IRS on my behalf?
Yes, as your authorized representative, we can communicate directly with the IRS to resolve your issues, allowing you to focus on your life or business. Once you have an assigned Power of Attorney, you can simply tell them to talk to your representative if they contact you.
Can penalties and interest be removed from my tax bill?
In some cases, yes. If you can demonstrate reasonable cause or prove the penalties were assessed in error, we can request abatement on your behalf.
I haven’t filed taxes in several years. What should I do?
Contact us immediately. We can help reconstruct your income, file missing returns, and negotiate with the IRS and state taxing agencies to minimize penalties and interest. In some cases we maybe able to completely remove penalties and interest through voluntary disclosure processes.
What happens if I can’t pay my taxes in full?
The IRS offers options like installment agreements, currently not collectible status, and offers in compromise. We can help you explore these options and find the best fit.
Securing Your Business Legacy
Building and protecting your business success naturally leads to thinking about its long-term future. While your attorney handles the legal aspects of succession & estate planning, our role is to analyze and optimize the tax implications of various strategies, and implement ongoing accounting & tax preparation services to carry out the plan.
What is your role in estate planning?
As tax advisors, we work alongside your estate planning attorney to analyze the tax implications of various planning strategies. We don’t draft legal documents or provide legal advice – our focus is exclusively on understanding and optimizing the tax consequences of your estate plan.
How do you help minimize estate tax liability?
We analyze different estate planning structures your attorney might recommend and provide detailed tax projections for each option. This helps your legal team make informed decisions about which strategies best minimize your estate tax exposure while meeting your planning goals.
How do you assist with charitable giving strategies?
We evaluate the tax implications of various charitable giving approaches your attorney might suggest, including charitable trusts and foundations. Our analysis helps you understand the tax benefits of different charitable strategies while your attorney handles the legal implementation.
What's your approach to analyzing trust structures?
When your attorney recommends specific trusts (like insurance trusts, revocable living trusts, or generation-skipping trusts), we provide comprehensive tax analysis of each option. This includes projecting tax consequences and identifying potential tax savings opportunities within the proposed structures.
How do you coordinate with our estate planning attorney?
We serve as your dedicated tax advisors, working closely with your legal team to provide tax insights that inform their planning decisions. We supply detailed tax analysis, projections, and recommendations while your attorney handles all legal aspects of the estate plan.
Do you help with family wealth transfer strategies?
Yes, we analyze the tax efficiency of various wealth transfer strategies your attorney might propose. This includes evaluating gift tax implications, generation-skipping transfer tax considerations, and overall tax impact on both transferors and beneficiaries.