The person leading your tax relationship should never feel invisible.
Elizabeth P. Ferreira is the Enrolled Agent and owner of GTS & Associates, Inc. She is the professional accountable for the firm's work — from a first question through a filed return, and through anything an agency asks afterward.
Enrolled Agent (EA) — a federally credentialed tax professional authorized to represent taxpayers before the IRS. The credential requires continuing education and adherence to the standards of professional conduct the IRS establishes for practitioners.
Elizabeth is not a CPA or an attorney, and GTS does not provide legal, investment-management, or comprehensive financial-planning services.
Her role at GTS & Associates
Elizabeth is the Enrolled Agent and owner of GTS & Associates, Inc., and she has several years of experience assisting clients with tax preparation and tax questions. The firm's published commitment is straightforward: listen, give the client top priority, and respond promptly with services suited to that client's situation.
What she works on
Her practice covers personal and business taxation — individual, partnership, corporate, estate, gift, and trust returns, along with federal, California, and out-of-state filings. She also handles tax-problem work: responding to IRS and state inquiries, examination and appeals representation, unfiled and amended returns, collection matters, and resolution alternatives when they apply.
Representation
Because the Enrolled Agent credential is federal, Elizabeth can represent a taxpayer before the IRS directly — communicating with the agency, responding on the client's behalf within the scope of the authorization on file, and explaining in plain terms what the agency is actually asking for.
San Leandro and the East Bay
GTS & Associates works from 852 East 14th Street in San Leandro. The firm's clients are East Bay individuals, families, and small-business owners, and the work reflects California realities: state estimated-tax rules, the annual franchise tax, sales-tax and payroll obligations, and multistate filings for residents with income from elsewhere.
Working style
Elizabeth's approach is to keep up with changing tax law and with the client's changing life events — a new child, a new business, a home purchase, an inheritance — because those are what actually change a return. Questions are welcome between appointments; the relationship is meant to be year-round, not a single seasonal visit.
What she wants clients to understand
- A return is only as accurate as the records behind it — organized records reduce both tax risk and cost
- Most surprises are timing problems, and timing can usually be planned for in advance
- An agency notice is a request for information, not a verdict; it has a deadline and a defined response
- Sensitive documents belong in the secure ClientHub, never in email
- You should always know who is handling your file and what stage it is in
After an engagement begins
Elizabeth stays involved after the intake: she reviews the work, resolves technical questions raised during preparation, signs off where her credential requires it, and remains the point of escalation if an agency contacts you about a return the firm prepared.
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