Core Service
Accurate, thorough preparation is only half the job. We look ahead — structuring income, deductions, and timing so your next return is as favorable as the law permits. From straightforward individual returns to complex business filings, your taxes are handled with attention and care by a preparer who understands the law behind every line.
Core Service
When the IRS or the Florida Department of Revenue comes calling, you want more than a preparer — you want an attorney. Because this division operates inside Zapalski Law, your matter is handled by a licensed Florida lawyer with an LL.M., protected by attorney-client privilege.
We meet the taxing authorities on your behalf, negotiate realistic resolutions, and work to reduce what you owe wherever the law allows.
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Tax compliance means meeting every obligation the tax laws impose — filing on time, reporting income accurately, and paying what is owed. Falling short invites penalties, interest, compliance checks, and in willful cases, far worse. Staying compliant protects more than your wallet: lenders, government agencies, and business partners increasingly ask for proof of it.
We keep individuals and businesses compliant year-round, respond to compliance checks, and help clients obtain and understand the IRS's own compliance documentation.
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Good decisions start with good records. We keep your books clean, current, and audit-ready — giving you a clear, honest view of your financial position all year long, not just at tax time.
Ideal for small businesses and self-employed professionals who would rather focus on their work than wrestle with the ledger.
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When the numbers don't add up, someone has to find out why. Our forensic accounting practice digs beneath the books — tracing funds, reconstructing records, and quantifying losses — to uncover what actually happened and prove it with evidence that holds up.
Because the practice operates inside a law firm with an active litigation practice, investigations can be conducted under attorney-client privilege, and the findings arrive courtroom-ready. From suspected employee embezzlement to disputes between partners or spouses, we follow the money wherever it leads.
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Starting or growing a business raises legal, tax, and financial questions all at once. Having those answered by one advisor who understands all three keeps you from making an expensive decision in one area that creates a problem in another.
We help you choose the right structure, set things up correctly from the start, and stay compliant as you grow. And when a matter needs a courtroom, Zapalski Law is already at the table.
New Service
Campaigns run on money and numbers — both regulated, both unforgiving. We keep campaign and committee books to the letter of election finance law, serve as PAC treasurer and records custodian (see Political Action Committee Services), and deliver the polling and statistical analysis that tells a campaign where it truly stands. Committee formation is handled by Zapalski Law.
We are strictly nonpartisan: the firm represents campaigns of every party and affiliation, at every level, with the same discretion and rigor.
Our polling and statistical analysis practice operates under its own brand — Political Numbers.
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A political action committee is a regulated entity from the day it takes its first dollar. Federal committees answer to the Federal Election Commission, Florida committees to the Division of Elections and the Florida Elections Commission, and every PAC is a section 527 political organization in the eyes of the IRS. Our division keeps committees compliant, serves as treasurer and records custodian, and prepares the committee's tax filings — with books that reconcile, to the dollar, to every campaign finance report.
We are strictly nonpartisan: we serve committees of every party and affiliation, at every level, with the same discretion and rigor. Committee formation and legal representation are provided by Zapalski Law; polling and statistical analysis through Political Numbers.
Compliance is a calendar and a set of rules that never sleep. We screen every contribution against limits and prohibited sources, keep the reporting calendar, prepare and electronically file the periodic reports, and handle the amendments and requests for additional information that follow a committee through its life. Contribution and expenditure ledgers are kept so that the campaign finance reports, the bank statements, and the tax filings all tell the same story.
The treasurer is the officer the law holds responsible — the person who signs every report and can be named personally in an enforcement action. A committee cannot raise or spend a dollar while the office is vacant. We serve as treasurer or deputy treasurer so your committee has a professional in the seat: depositing receipts on time, authorizing expenditures, monitoring contributions, and signing and filing accurate reports on schedule.
Both the FEC Statement of Organization and Florida's require a named custodian of the committee's books and accounts. We hold that role: maintaining the contribution and expenditure records the law requires — donor names, addresses, occupations, and employers; invoices and receipts for every disbursement; bank records and copies of every filed report — for the full retention period, and producing them when an auditor or an agency asks.
PACs are tax-exempt political organizations under section 527, but they still file. We prepare the notices and returns the IRS requires — Form 8871 within 24 hours of formation, periodic Form 8872 reports where the committee is not exempt as an FEC filer or qualified state or local political organization, Form 1120-POL when the committee has investment or other taxable income above the $100 specific deduction, and the annual Form 990 when gross receipts require it.
Dedicated Practice
Mission-driven organizations and public entities answer to donors, members, regulators, and taxpayers. Having a tax attorney and accountant on the same team keeps your organization compliant, transparent, and focused on its mission.
From formation through annual compliance, we handle the legal and accounting life cycle of tax-exempt organizations — charities, foundations, churches, clubs, and associations.
Public entities and special districts operate under accounting rules all their own. We bring order and accountability to public dollars.
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Some engagements call for more than advice — they call for a seat at the table. We serve as audit committee chairs, committee members, directors, and trustees for companies and organizations that need independent financial and legal judgment in the boardroom.
Our Managing Partner has served as Audit Committee Chairman of a publicly traded company, bringing firsthand experience with governance, financial oversight, and fiduciary duty at the public-company level — experience we now put to work for boards of all sizes.
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Community associations answer to their owners for every dollar — and to the IRS every year. We keep association books clean and transparent, prepare budgets and reserve schedules boards can defend at the annual meeting, and handle the tax filings that associations too often get wrong, including the annual choice between Form 1120-H and Form 1120.
Legal needs — covenant enforcement, collections, board counsel — are handled by Zapalski Law, so your association's finances and legal matters work together.
Service · Bodouva Design Division
Large programs — airport terminals, rail stations, ports, and other infrastructure — succeed on two things: the quality of the design and the capital behind it. Through Bodouva Design, a separate division of Zapalski Tax and Accounting, we bring both to the table: a transportation design studio with three decades of terminal and station work at JFK, LaGuardia, BWI, Buffalo Niagara, and across the New York region, paired with our own financial, legal, and capital-acquisition team.
The division provides strategic advisory, feasibility and financial assessment, program and project management support, design coordination, and client representation for public agencies and private-sector owners — and works alongside Zapalski Law to structure and document the capital, from private placements to public–private partnerships.
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