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Dave Horwedel

CEO, EA

A graduate of the prestigious Pomona College with a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics, Dave spent many years after graduation honing his communication and executive skills in specialized executive training and work experience.

Dave holds the highest federal tax credential, Enrolled Agent, which certifies his tax expertise and allows him to represent his clients as an attorney before the IRS.

He founded Torchlight Tax and Financial Services, a full-service tax firm, that does all kinds of tax preparation–business (sole proprietors, partnerships, LLCs, C-Corporations, S-Corporations), Estates and Trusts. The product of Torchlight Tax is the tax dollars our clients save without cheating or putting them at risk.

Torchlight also does support services such as bookkeeping and payroll which are needed to file a tax return properly. Quality IRS Representation which settles IRS Debt most favorably for our client has also been a specialty of Torchlight Tax. Due to surging demand for IRS Representation, Dave formed GuardDog Tax as a department of Torchlight Tax and gave it its own website text.

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Shaun Linford

Chief Organizing Officer

Shaun has  extensive   training in  sales, recruitment, legal, marketing, counseling, and management in various corporations over the last 20 years. As a senior corporation executive,  he supervised production and quality control for the central  corporate office.

He is trained in analyzing statistics, familiar with the problems of business of all sizes, and is skilled in marketing and business consulting.

He handles the myriad day-to-day organizing actions necessary to keep the Torchlight Tax firm running smoothly and  expanding.

Additionally, Shaun has embarked on his training as an Enrolled Agent (EA), the highest US federal tax credential, so he can supervise all actions of the firm.  As part of this, he will be interning as a tax preparer under an experienced EA.

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Shaun Linford

Chief Organizing Officer
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Luis Halal

CPA

Luis Graduated with a Bachelor in Business Administration in Accounting from Lyceum of the Philippines University. He has been doing taxes and accounting since then and he is a CPA licensed in Nevada Luis likes doing expert tax returns that save dollars for his clients and allows businesspeople to truly understand their financials.

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Ken Jones

EA

A graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis with a Bachelor of Science in accounting, Ken has been servicing taxpayers for over 30 years as an Enrolled Agent. He has extensive experience in all types of personal tax returns, business returns (sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, C-Corporations, S-Corporations), Trusts, Estates, non-profits, and pretty much all aspects of the tax field. His main duties include tax preparation, IRS representation, quality control (side checking tax return filings before submission), and apprenticing new EAs and CPAs.

Ken has also kept up with the ever-changing worlds of IRS codes and regulations. This, along with 60,000 hours of practical tax experience, makes Ken the go-to guy for oddball tax questions and situations.

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Ken Jones

EA
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