I spent years learning how the IRS builds a case. Now I build the defense.
Most CPAs learn the tax code from the outside. I learned it from inside the agency that enforces it, and I’d rather use that for you than against you.
Licensed in Florida. Trained by the IRS.
I’m a Florida CPA with an accountancy degree from the University of West Florida. I started where most accountants start: a local public accounting firm, doing tax returns, bookkeeping, payroll, and sales tax for small businesses.
Then I went to work for the IRS as a field auditor, an Internal Revenue Agent. That job is exactly what it sounds like: I audited small businesses. In depth. Across a lot of industries. I was good enough at it that they had me training the new agents.
My last year there was in the Special Enforcement Program, working complex fraud and unreported income. Then I left, and brought all of it here.
How I got here.
University of West Florida
An accountancy degree, and a Florida CPA license. Local kid, local school, still here.
A local public accounting firm
Tax returns, bookkeeping, payroll, sales tax. The unglamorous mechanics of keeping small businesses compliant, which turned out to be the best possible preparation for what came next.
IRS Field Auditor, Internal Revenue Agent
I conducted in-depth examinations of small businesses across dozens of industries. Sat at their kitchen tables and in their back offices. Took their books apart line by line and found out exactly where owners get themselves into trouble. Almost never on purpose.
Trainer of newly hired IRS revenue agents
I taught new agents how to run an examination. If you want to understand a system, teach it to someone who has never seen it.
IRS Special Enforcement Program
My final year was spent on complex fraud and unreported income cases. This is where the government sends the files that aren’t simple mistakes. It changes how you read a set of books, permanently.
Connor C Neville, CPA, PLLC
I left to use all of it on the other side of the table. Same knowledge, different client. Now the books I take apart are the ones I’m protecting.
Four things I won’t compromise on.
A small team I trained, and my name on every return.
Your books and your first tax prep run through two bookkeepers I hired, vetted, and trained myself. Nothing is contracted out, nothing goes to an offshore processing center, and nothing leaves this firm until I’ve reviewed it and signed it. That’s also why we cap how many businesses we take.
Your data stays in the country.
I have never outsourced a client’s books or return overseas and I never will. Your bank access and your revenue are not a cost-saving opportunity.
I tell you before, not after.
An accountant who only speaks in April is a historian. The whole point of quarterly planning is that the number can still change.
Aggressive is not the same as smart.
I spent a year on fraud cases. I know precisely where the line is, and I’ll get you every dollar on the right side of it, and not one on the wrong side.
Let’s talk about your business.
I’ll tell you straight whether the plan makes sense for where you are. If it doesn’t, I’ll point you somewhere that does.