CPA Firm In California: Syriac CPA

The Tax Strategy Firm Built to Protect and Grow Your Wealth

Syriac CPA offers professional CPA services for individuals, small businesses, entrepreneurs, real estate investors, and medical professionals across Los Angeles, Artesia, Cerritos, Newport Beach, Downey, Whittier, Cypress and communities throughout California.

We at Syriac CPA Tax and Accounting Services deliver tax, accounting, and strategic support with a people-first approach, empowering individuals and businesses to maintain compliance, organize their finances and make informed financial decisions. Our CPA services California include, but are not limited to, tax preparation, account and bookkeeping, payroll management, and customized tax strategies for entrepreneurs and business owners.

Work With an Experienced Tax Strategist in California

California-licensed CPA

Reduce taxes and increase your take-home income

More than 15 years of experience in Accounting and Compliance services

Multi-industry accounting and compliance support available

Services available for high-asset individuals and businesses

Member of CalCPA, AICPA, & Artesia Chamber of Commerce

Syriac CPA: The Tax Strategists With A Vision

Keep more of what you earn with integrated tax planning strategies designed to support your goals while minimizing your tax liabilities. Spearheaded by the renowned tax strategist in California, Sabu Syriac, Syriac CPA strives to provide proactive tax planning and strategy solutions to individuals and businesses throughout the year.

Syriac CPA Tax and Accounting Services is here to help you understand how your tax planning strategies today can vastly improve your tax outcomes tomorrow. Think of us as your tax code translators. We take what’s actually possible under current law, mix in a deep understanding of your unique situation, and build a strategy around your income, deductions, and timing that pays off for years to come, not just the current tax season. When you join hands with Syriac CPA, you get the following benefits:

Sabu Syriac, MBA, CPA

Tax Strategist & Business Consultant

Alignment of tax strategy with long-term goals

We don’t just provide a tax strategy that works for the current tax season and pat ourselves on the back. We work to deliver more than that. At Syriac CPA, we leverage our tax strategy services to help you plan for the long-term.

Reduction in overall tax liability

Don't leave money on the table for the IRS. We will dive deep into every deduction, credit, and strategy that the tax code allows to reduce your taxes legally and ethically, often a lot more than you would expect.

Improvement in annual cash-flow

Gone are the days when taxes felt like one giant surprise, eating away at your savings at the end of the year. Once you decide to partner with Syriac CPA, we will help you plan ahead, smoothing out estimated payments, withholding, and timing so cash flow stays steady all twelve months, and not just when your accountant is done crunching numbers.

Reduction in penalties and underpayment issues

Even the financially-savviest people are often caught off guard by the sneakiness of underpayments. However, you do not have to worry about this since you have taken the refuge of Syriac CPA’s tax strategy services, where we closely monitor your estimated payments and withholdings all year-round, so that tax season does not knock you down with an unpleasant surprise.

Support for major financial and life decisions

Key life milestones should not have to be shadowed by precarity in your finances. Tax strategy is about protecting your family, business, and your future. Buying a house, starting a new business, welcoming a new family member, or even retirement are life events that shape your finances for years to come. We help you make decisions through every tax angle before, not after, filing them so that your life choices come with fewer regrets and a lot more confidence in every step.

Who Benefits From Our Tax Strategy Efforts?

See yourself among the following cohort of individuals? If yes, then you may be a perfect match for our services. If not, you can still schedule a consultation with us, and we will devise a tax strategy that still works excellently for you.

Our Tax Planning and Strategy Approach

Any CPA can file your tax returns, offer generic advice, and call themselves accomplished professionals. But at Syriac CPA Tax and Accounting Services, we take a different approach. Our process is systematic and methodical, aligned according to your personal objectives. We understand that effective strategy depends on income, expenses, timing, and long-term objectives.

Reviewing Current and Prior Tax Returns

At Syriac CPA, we understand that a strong future can only be built with a well-understood past. For this reason, we review your prior tax returns line-by-line, spotting inconsistencies, deductions, or red flags that other CPA firms might gloss over. We do it to ensure that your current and future strategies are built on a real picture of where you stand today.

Evaluating income sources and structures

Make sure your income works just as hard as you. Because how your income is structured matters just as much as how much you earn. Syriac CPA takes a close look at your salary, business profits, investments, rental income, and how they're structured, to find smarter, more tax-efficient ways to organize your income streams.

Identifying planning opportunities and risks

Any other CPA would not bother to pour through your tax situation to uncover hidden opportunities and risks. We do. When it comes down to digging beneath the surface, our tax strategists at Syriac CPA can don a detective’s hat to identify opportunities you never knew existed or flag risks that can turn into costly problems down the line.

Forecasting tax liability under different scenarios

Big decisions deserve a clear picture of what's ahead. Syriac CPA runs the numbers across multiple scenarios, whether it's selling a business, changing income structure, or making a major investment, so you can see the tax impact before you commit. No more guessing games or after-the-fact surprises. Just real clarity, so you can make confident decisions with your eyes wide open.

Adjusting strategies with changing circumstances

Life changes, and so do tax laws. Then why should your finances remain static? Our tax strategy takes into account the dynamically-evolving nature of your circumstances, and adapts itself according to it. We do not believe in a set-it-and-forget-it approach but rather a proactive, year-long one.

Comprehensive Tax and Accounting Services in California

Our accounting and tax solutions are tailor-made to meet the personalized requirements of self-employed professionals, small businesses, and individuals. When you partner with us, you get a dedicated Certified Public Accountant (CPA) by your side who works hard to ensure that your tax liabilities are minimized to the maximum possible extent. We are one of those few accounting firms in California that blend technical expertise with genuine care for your finances.

Tax Planning Services

Having your taxes planned can mean the difference between getting a refund and having a balance due. Strategic tax planning services are designed to help individuals make informed financial decisions throughout the year. This includes tax-saving strategies, retirement planning, investment implications,and year-end planning to minimize overall tax liability.

Individual preparing tax return with financial documents and calculator

Individual Tax Preparation

Minimize your tax liability and maximize your tax returns with Syriac CPA’s individual tax preparation services. We provide comprehensive preparation of federal and state tax returns, ensuring accurate representation of income, deductions, and credits.

Business Tax Preparation

We provide comprehensive business tax preparation services including state tax filings, corporate tax returns, and partnership tax filings. We also assist with C-Corp, S-Corp, as well as company and corporate tax preparation

Accounting and bookkeeping services with financial reports and documents

Accounting & Bookkeeping

We offer accounting and bookkeeping services involving small business accounting, general ledger maintenance, financial statement preparation, budgeting and forecasting, tax ready financial records, and payroll processing services.

Payroll processing services using accounting software and financial systems

Payroll Services

We offer payroll processing, year-end payroll processing, personalized support and advisory. With our organized approach, businesses can empower themselves to access essential payroll data anytime, streamline finances, and meet regulatory requirements with confidence

Business structuring and financial planning services for long term growth

Business Structuring Services

Whether you are a new entrepreneur, expanding your business, or restructuring an established business, our business restructuring services can help you map your financial future clearly.

Business formation services with startup planning and legal documents

New Business Formation Services

Whether you are forming an LLC, C Corporation, S Corporation, or Partnership, we assess your unique business goals, industry, and tax considerations to recommend the structure that best suits your needs.

IRS Tax Problem Assistance

Our CPA firm provides expert IRS tax problem assistance, helping clients resolve audits, back taxes, liens, levies, and penalties. We guide you through every step of the resolution process, develop tailored strategies, and work to minimize liabilities

Strategic Tax Planning Services in California

California’s tax code has more moving parts than most states, and even careful, financially literate people get caught off guard by rules they never knew applied to them. We sit down early, well before any deadline is close, and build a plan around how you actually live and work rather than a template.

For business owners, that means entity structure, expense timing, and reduction strategies that add up year after year. For individuals, it’s usually retirement contributions and investment timing. Higher earners deal with AMT exposure, phase-outs, and sometimes multi-state obligations, and our high-income planning is built specifically for that.

Nobody enjoys the stretch right before a filing deadline, and that’s exactly the moment our work is built for. Our team has handled everything from a single-member LLC to a corporation filing across states. Managing an LLC yourself? We sort through self-employment income, deductions, and quarterly estimates. Bigger operations lean on us for entity-level filings, depreciation schedules, and multi-jurisdiction headaches.On the personal side we handle W-2 income, freelance work, and rental properties, with accuracy as the priority, a return that holds up if it’s ever questioned.

Every business tells a story in its numbers, but most owners don’t have time to read it themselves. The ones that grow steadily are almost never the ones guessing. We cover the daily grind: invoices, payroll, reconciliations, so you’re not matching receipts at 11pm, and our support scales up as newer businesses grow instead of piling on services they don’t need yet.We also keep financial statements accurate and current, ready whenever a lender or investor asks, and we watch cash flow closely so gaps get caught early.

A healthy business runs on a ledger that actually makes sense. That’s not an afterthought here, it’s the foundation everything else stands on. Our bookkeeping keeps your books clean, current, and ready for an audit at any point in the year.

Payroll eats up more of a small business owner’s time than almost anything else, so we handle the processing, wage calculations, filing deadlines, and staying ahead of payroll taxes before they turn into penalties. We work inside QuickBooks regularly and pair it with receivable and payable management, so cash keeps moving without you chasing invoices at night. This is financial management done by people actually looking at your numbers, not software running unattended.

Choosing how to structure a new business confuses a lot of founders. Some lean toward an LLC for flexibility and separation from personal assets; others are ready for an S-Corp once the tax math makes sense. We start by asking what you’re actually trying to build, not by handing over a template. For founders still setting up, we help with bookkeeping, tax elections, and cash flow projections, and for businesses not ready to hire a full-time CFO, our Part-Time CFO Services fill that gap on a schedule and budget that fits.

An audit notice, back taxes, a missed filing deadline, they all land the same way. Most of the time it’s fixable, and people just don’t know where to start. We begin with a straight answer about where things stand, whether that’s explaining a notice that looks scarier than it is or being in the room with you for an audit. The first step is always getting back into compliance so nothing gets worse. If you owe money, we look at payment plans and offers in compromise to see what actually fits.

Specialized CPA Services

Small businesses and startups work with us from the first invoice through years of growth. Real estate professionals and investors bring us depreciation schedules, cost segregation, and 1031 timelines that can’t slip by a day, and we plan around the actual portfolio, not a checklist. Medical and healthcare professionals hire us because they trained for medicine, not tax code, so we handle the financial side of running a practice.

Self-employed professionals get help with quarterly estimates and deductions. Established businesses lean on us for the tax strategy and long-term planning that growth eventually demands.

Why Choose Syriac CPA?

We explain tax terms you actually understand

Walk into Syriac CPA and you're a name we actually remember, past tax season and into the next one.

Proactive, not reactive

Syriac CPA looks ahead instead of scrambling behind, catching deductions before they're missed and flagging problems before the IRS does.

Everything under one roof

Business formation, bookkeeping, tax filing, IRS resolution, CFO-level strategy: Syriac CPA handles it under one roof

We actually pick up the phone

Call your accountant right now. Will they answer? At Syriac CPA, they will.

How Our Consultation Process Works

Step 1

We start with a free, no-pressure conversation, then dig into your actual numbers before recommending anything.

Step 2

You get a plan built around your situation, not a price sheet, with clear costs and expectations.

Step 3

Once we start working together, we keep going: returning calls, flagging issues early, adjusting as your business changes.

What Clients Say About Syriac CPA

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between an LLC and an S Corp?

Depends what you need. LLCs give you flexibility and keep your personal assets separate. S Corps come into play once the tax numbers make sense. We’ll figure out which one actually fits your situation.

Do you work with individuals, or just businesses?

Both, honestly. We prepare individual returns, handle business filings, run payroll and bookkeeping, and cover everything from a one-person LLC to a company operating in several states.

When should I start thinking about tax planning?

Earlier than most people do. We’re talking with clients in July and October, not just April, because the savings come from planning ahead of a deadline, not reacting once it’s already here.

I've fallen behind on filings. Can you still help?

Yes, this happens more than you’d think. Back taxes, unfiled returns, audit letters, wage garnishments, we sort through all of it. The first step is always getting you compliant again so nothing gets worse.

My business can't afford a full-time CFO. Now what?

That’s what our Part-Time CFO Services exist for. You get real financial guidance without hiring a full-time executive, scaled to whatever your budget and schedule actually allow.

Can you help with real estate specifically?

We handle depreciation, cost segregation, and 1031 exchange deadlines regularly. Real estate investors lose money to timing mistakes more often than they realize, and that’s exactly what our real estate CPA work catches.

I run a medical practice. Is that something you handle?

It is. We work with doctors and dentists across California, taking care of the financial side of a practice so it stops competing with the time you’d rather spend on patients.

What actually happens at the first meeting?

Not much pressure, honestly. No paperwork needed ahead of time. You explain your situation, we ask a few questions, and that first conversation doesn’t cost you anything either way.

Do you stay even after tax season ends?

We do. Clients hear from us throughout the year, not just at filing time, and we adjust plans as things change. Some of our clients have been with us for years.

Can you handle payroll and QuickBooks?

Yes, processing, filings, reconciliations, the whole thing. The goal is keeping your books accurate so you’re not chasing invoices or double-checking numbers late at night.