ANITA C. LAYMAN, CPA

Anita Layman has had a CPA practice in the Almaden Valley of San Jose, California, since 1991. Her office offers a complete line of accounting and tax services including the preparation of compiled financial statements, trust accounting, small business and individual tax planning and consulting, the preparation of income tax returns, payroll tax returns, sales and use tax returns and business property tax returns. She has extensive experience in the tax complexities associated with Silicon Valley, such as incentive stock options, employee stock purchase plans, restricted stock, alternative minimum tax and limited partnership investments.

She represents individuals and corporations at audit in front of the Internal Revenue Service, Franchise Tax Board, Employment Development Department and the Board of Equalization. She does income tax, retirement and social security planning for her clients. She prepares individual, partnership, C-Corporation, S-Corporation, fiduciary (trust), and gift tax returns.

Anita has been a QuickBooks certified proadvisor since 1999. She provides individual QuickBooks training, QuickBooks account setup, and she trouble shoots problem QuickBooks files.

Anita graduated from Fresno State University with a bachelors degree in Chemistry. She worked six years as a chemist before she took time off to raise a family. During her years as a homemaker, she worked part-time in the bookkeeping and tax field and she discovered that the same analytical thinking skills used in science applied well to accounting and tax. In 1979, she passed the three-day Federal exam to become Enrolled to Practice before the IRS (Enrolled Agent).

She took her business and accounting course work at San Jose State University and passed all four parts of the Uniform CPA exam at her first sitting. She worked as an auditor for the Department of Defense for five years where she performed audits of defense contractor’s overhead accounts.

It is Anita’s belief that no one should pay more tax than they legally owe. She brings personal attention, integrity and her work ethic into every job she does.