About Heather Seat, CPA

A CPA who knows real estate, and spent 17 years on the IRS side of the table.

Seat Tax & Consulting is a boutique accounting firm. I'm Heather Seat, CPA. I spent seventeen years as a Revenue Agent (an IRS auditor) for the Internal Revenue Service, and I started this firm to come alongside your business as your accounting department.

For real estate agents, that's one monthly package: your books kept current every month, tax planning during the year, and your tax return, for one flat monthly fee quoted in writing. Before accounting I worked in the mortgage industry and fell in love with real estate, and I own a short-term rental myself, so the financial side of real estate is familiar ground.

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Heather Seat, CPA, on a downtown Spokane sidewalk

Spokane Falls and the downtown clock tower

How I got here

From Spokane classrooms to the IRS, and back to Spokane.

I studied accounting at Whitworth University in Spokane. The program was linked with Gonzaga, so I had the privilege of studying at both. After graduating in 2003 I worked in the mortgage industry and fell in love with real estate. I studied education briefly before coming back to accounting.

In 2009 I joined the IRS, auditing small businesses and self-employed taxpayers. I was there seventeen years. I was always an auditor, but I also taught, trained new auditors, worked in the Special Enforcement Program, and was a subject matter expert by the time I left.

The difference

I've seen what actually goes wrong.

Seventeen years of auditing small businesses and solopreneurs means I have seen a lot of business types, and a lot of different ways people keep their books.

I audited it

Sole proprietorships, partnerships, S-corporations, small C-corporations and high-income individuals.

I worked the hard cases

Special Enforcement Program: complex examinations, cash-intensive businesses, non-filed returns and unreported income cases.

I taught it

IRS-certified instructor for more than a decade. I taught other auditors how to do this work.

A large part of my job was teaching other IRS auditors how to conduct audits, and educating taxpayers in plain language about their filing responsibilities and how to keep tax-ready books.

Qualifications

The credentials, in one place.

Credential	Certified Public Accountant, Washington State, License #50082
Federal service	Seventeen years, Internal Revenue Service: Internal Revenue Agent, Small Business / Self-Employed
Special Enforcement Program	Complex examinations: cash-intensive businesses, non-filed returns, unreported income and civil fraud cases; lead agent on a multi-entity team audit
Instruction	IRS-certified instructor for more than ten years: Lead Instructor, Revenue Agent Basic Training; on-the-job instructor for new agents
Education	Bachelor of Arts in Accounting: Whitworth University and Gonzaga University, Spokane

You run a business. You need someone on your team you can trust with the financial side.

That's me. The first intro call is free.

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