Initially the business was primarily bookkeeping and accounting; our clients were independent businesses. Over the years the tax side of the business grew and grew. As the introduction of computers allowed us to restructure, we’ve been able to accommodate this growth. Thus, Professional Tax Accountants, Inc., came to be.

Roger Hefferan rejoined the business as a partner in 1987, after a career working with the accounting practices of business and government—and brought the expertise he had acquired in the field of computers.

The summer of 1999 marked our entry onto the Internet, through which we met another group who became our first cyber clients—folks we work with through cyberspace.

We’re located just inside the Washington, D.C., beltway in Springfield, Virginia, in our own office townhouse—an office we had built to our specifications over twenty years ago. We’re well established, unhurried when it comes to meeting new friends, and we like doing taxes. Our average client has been with us well over a decade and many for twice that long.

Frankly, we’ve never advertised in the past, and we don’t intend to advertise on the Internet. We had an opportunity to obtain a Web site and said, "Why not?"

Our fees for business clients have always been set at a monthly rate. Generally we hold them for a number of years, unless there is a significant change in what we are expected to do. We shy away from farming businesses, since that’s really not our area of expertise. While we occasionally accept partnership clients, unless they are family partnerships we tend to avoid them.