R&D credits and cost segregation, for work finished or still in motion. Flat fee. CPA-led. Answer on paper first.
Mid-project? Even better: we document as it happens.
The federal R&D credit often lands here, per qualifying dollar of wages, supplies, and contract research. States can add more.
Of a building’s cost often moves to 5-, 7-, or 15-year lives instead of 39. Deductions move to now.
Invented. If the facts aren’t there, you get a written no and it stops.
Twenty minutes. Bring the story.
Flat scoping fee. Written yes or no.
Only if the yes is worth more than it costs.
Typical ranges, not promises. Your facts decide. Run your own numbers →
You don’t have to be a scientist to do science, and somebody should finally give you credit for it. Pick the sentence that sounds like you.
“We changed how the work gets done, and honestly, we weren’t sure it would work.”
That doubt had a name: research. Documented, it pays back the wages behind it.
See the four tests → You built · Cost Segregation“We built, bought, or renovated, and it’s all sitting on a 39-year schedule.”
The parts serving your process belong in 5, 7, or 15. Function decides.
See how allocation works →CPAs and firms: you keep the client, we build the file. The arrangement →
A home-care agency. No lab, no engineers. The owner kept rebuilding how visits get verified, documented, and billed: new checklists, new template versions, month after month, watching the error and denial numbers move. The owner called it running a tight ship.
The tax code has another name for it, and the versions they kept are the proof. We’re building that file right now, while the work is still warm. Not filed. Not promised. Not padded.
Details disguised, and they stay private. Outcomes are never promised; that’s what the written answer is for.
About half who call us hear no. It costs a call, not a study. That’s why our yes holds.
I’m a CPA who studied how people work: human systems engineering, ergonomics. Not chairs, not wellness posters. I started EATMS because the people who improve things rarely get credit for it. Literally.
Tell me what you changed. If there’s money, we find it. If there’s nothing, I say so in writing and it never costs you a study. That’s the whole business model.
Andy Cunningham, CPA
You fixed something because it mattered, not just for the write-off.
You’d rather hear a true no than a shaky yes.
You keep records, or you’re willing to start.
You want a number reverse-engineered from what you’d like to owe.
You need the answer to be yes.
You’d rather not be asked questions.
Research in the social and behavioral sciences is excluded, and so are efficiency surveys. Engineering is not. Our studies qualify only where the work is engineering: physical systems, measurable performance, resolved by experiment. When a project is really a survey or a training program, we say so in writing and no claim is made.
Mills reverse-engineer a number. We start from the actual work and the real uncertainty. When the facts support a credit, including prior years, we help document and claim it. When they don't, you get a written no. Fees are never a percentage of the benefit.
A flat scoping fee in week one, credited toward the study if you proceed. The full fee is fixed before work begins. No engagement is priced as a percentage of tax benefit.
Yes. We prepare the study and the Form 6765 package; your preparer reviews and files. For referred clients we never prepare returns or solicit compliance work.
The file is built for that day: indexed, contemporaneous, retrievable in minutes. We stand behind every position, alongside you.
Yes, no, or not yet. Twenty minutes, flat fee quoted before any work.
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