Fortune-500-level tax strategy for Denver individuals, freelancers, equity-compensated professionals, and businesses. 100% remote — upload your documents, we handle everything. Most clients get 2–4x more back than their previous preparer found.
Denver blends a booming outdoor-and-tech economy, a large remote-work population that relocated during the boom, sharp real-estate appreciation, and a cannabis industry with uniquely brutal federal tax rules. Each needs a different playbook — and the cannabis 280E problem alone can make or break a dispensary's year.
Michelet Financial serves Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, Boulder, Centennial, and Littleton, and the greater Denver metro with the same discipline founder Brandt Michelet built managing financials for Tilman Fertitta and Landry's Inc. — one of America's largest private companies. Everything is handled securely online: no travel, no waiting room, just a strategist who reviews every Denver-area return personally.
W-2, 1099, investment income, multi-state, rental property. Full deduction review — not a checkbox interview.
LLC, S-Corp, Partnership returns. Quarterly estimates, entity structuring, and year-round strategy.
Every deduction — home office, vehicle, SEP-IRA, health insurance, QBI. We find what software misses. See our self-employed deduction guide.
RSUs, ISOs, ESPP, capital gains, and tax-loss harvesting handled correctly — not the way brokerage-imported basis gets it wrong.
Received an IRS notice? We handle all correspondence and represent you completely.
Year-round tax planning: S-Corp elections, retirement, and timing strategies to minimize your bill.
Colorado has a flat 4.4% income tax (reduced to 4.25% for some years via TABOR refunds), and Denver adds an Occupational Privilege 'head' tax. Colorado's flat rate keeps state math simple — which is why the real optimization work is federal.
Section 280E disallows normal business deductions for cannabis operators, creating punishing effective tax rates. We use proper cost-of-goods-sold accounting and entity structuring to legally minimize the 280E hit.
Thousands moved to Denver working for out-of-state employers. We handle multi-state allocation, part-year returns, and the home-office deduction so you don't overpay two states.
Denver's appreciation created large embedded gains. We plan around the primary-residence exclusion, installment sales, depreciation, and 1031 exchanges to manage the tax on a sale.
Volume preparers and software follow a script. Because Denver's economy runs on technology & outdoor recreation, cannabis, remote workers, real estate, and small business, these are the high-value items we most often recover for Denver-area clients:
Not sure which apply to you? Our complete self-employed deduction list and a free consultation will show you exactly what's on the table.
Free consultation. We review your situation and show you exactly what your previous preparer missed.
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