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Neil Johnson (aka The Tax Dude®) is thrilled to join the team of highly skilled, experienced professionals at Dolins, Dolins & Sorinsky, Ltd. He brings over 20 years of tax planning and compliance experience to DDS. Neil’s background in taxation coupled with his experience in personal financial planning gives him a base of knowledge truly appreciated by his clients.
A graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and a CPA since 1988, Neil built Johnson Financial Services, Ltd., a diversified tax, accounting and financial consulting practice serving primarily advertising agencies and other graphic arts businesses. In 1996, Neil sold this practice of over 300 business and individual clients.
In 2007 Neil created a new accounting practice, 360 Tax & Financial Advisors, Ltd. In short order, this practice grew through the use of the Internet and marketing The Tax Dude® brand. By leveraging the use current technology, Neil has been able to service clients across the US and abroad in such places as the United Kingdom and Dubai. Neil believes the proper use of technology can enable DDS to service clients no matter where they reside just as if DDS was just up the street.
Over the years, Neil has gained extensive knowledge on what he calls “The Three D’s” (divorce, debt and death). Each of these situations provides unusual and often complicated challenges for many people. Neil remembers his early divorce engagements and how he “followed the money” before the phrase was common place and practicing forensic accounting before it became its own niche.
Neil has helped numerous clients deal with IRS and state taxing authorities. He has successfully negotiated IRS penalty abatements totaling over hundreds of thousands of dollars. Neil has also helped his clients obtain installment plans, offers in compromise and innocent spouse relief. He gets a real chuckle watching “tax relief companies” on television and radio pitching these services as if they are truly advocates for the taxpayer.
Neil has also served on the board of directors for David Bruce & Company, a software developer for the financial markets and was instrumental in its successful sale to First Options of Chicago. His experience includes work in the tax department at The Northern Trust Company and as a Tax Manager for CTS Financial Group, Inc. and Senior Tax Manager with Brown, Kaplan & Liss, LLP.
In addition to being a partner with DDS, Neil currently serves as treasurer to the Chicago Area Adventure Racing Association and a US congressional campaign for Joel Pollak. He has also served on the board for other nonprofit organizations such as Cuentos Foundation and an advisor to North Shore Village.
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