Mustafa Temiz, CPA | Temiz CPA PLLC

A small firm, deliberately.

Temiz CPA PLLC is a licensed Texas CPA firm in Richardson, serving American, Turkish and international taxpayers. Most of its work sits where United States tax law meets another country's — foreign-owned entities, nonresident filings, and Americans whose assets did not stay inside the country.

It is a small practice and it is meant to be. One licensed accountant takes the call, forms the judgment and signs the return. There is no account manager between you and the person doing the work, and nothing is routed to an associate you never meet.

That scale is also the limit, and it is stated openly further down this page: there is work this firm takes and work it turns away.

Where the judgment comes from

Mustafa Temiz began his career at a global public accounting firm after completing a master's degree in accounting at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2007. He was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant by the State of Texas in 2009.

As a financial auditor and business consultant he worked with clients across financial institutions, healthcare, airlines, manufacturing, telecommunications and construction — businesses whose numbers are examined by people whose job is to find the weak point.

That background does a specific thing for a tax practice. An auditor spends years learning where figures drift, which explanations survive scrutiny and which collapse on the second question. Preparing a return is the same skill pointed the other way: taking positions that will still stand up when someone examines them three years from now.

A return is a document you sign under penalty of perjury. The useful question is not whether a position can be entered into the software, but whether it can be defended once entered. Those are different questions, and only one of them matters later.

How the cross-border work began

This side of the practice grew through demand, not marketing. Three kinds of people arrived with the same problem.

Founders who had formed a U.S. LLC from abroad, filed nothing because the company had no activity, and had no idea that Form 5472 carries a $25,000 annual penalty whether the company trades or not. Green card holders whose accounts back home stayed open, unaware that FBAR thresholds count the total rather than each account. Foreign investors holding U.S. property who met FIRPTA withholding at closing and had never heard the word.

In every case the tax owed was modest or nothing at all. What was expensive was the reporting nobody had mentioned. That gap — between what people are told and what the law requires of them — is what this practice is organized around.

What you can verify before you call

Everything on this site that matters can be checked by someone other than us. It should be — and you should apply the same two checks to anyone else you are considering.

Texas CPA licenseIssued by the State of Texas in 2009. Search for Temiz CPA PLLC or Mustafa Temiz.

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IRS Certifying Acceptance AgentThe IRS publishes its agent list by state and country. The authorization is held by this firm directly, not through a partner.

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113 client reviews, 5.0 averageUnedited and public. The recurring themes are 1040-NR and Form 5472 work, speed of reply, and IRS matters that ended well.

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A physical office in Richardson, Texas2100 Lakeside Blvd, Ste 160, Richardson, TX 75082. You are welcome to come; most clients never do.

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Credentials and tools

Certified Public Accountant — State of Texas, licensed 2009
Master of Science in Accounting — University of Texas at Dallas, 2007
IRS Certifying Acceptance Agent — ITIN applications, Form W-7
Intuit ProSeries — tax preparation; QuickBooks ProAdvisor — bookkeeping
English and Turkish — the call, the review and any IRS notice, in either

The work we take, and the work we do not

A firm this size can only do a limited number of things properly. Saying which is more useful than claiming to do everything — and it saves you a call if the answer is no.

Work we take

Where a licensed, cross-border-literate accountant changes the outcome.

Foreign owners of U.S. entities with real reporting exposure — Form 5472 and pro forma 1120, FinCEN BOI, 1120-F
Nonresidents with U.S. income — 1040-NR, rental property, FIRPTA, treaty positions, 1042-S reporting
U.S. taxpayers with assets abroad — FBAR, Form 8938, Form 5471, Form 3520, foreign tax credits
People who are already behind and want it closed properly through voluntary disclosure
Owner-managed businesses that want bookkeeping, payroll and the return under one roof
Anyone facing the IRS who needs someone with the standing to speak for them

Work we turn down

Declined at the first conversation, before anyone has paid anything.

A single W-2 and the standard deduction, with no connection outside the country — a volume preparer is cheaper and entirely sufficient, and we will say so
Any position we are not willing to sign. If the facts do not support it, there is no fee that changes the answer
Engagements that need a team of twenty. Beyond our scale is beyond our scale; we will point you somewhere that fits
Work where the documents cannot be produced. We do not build filings on figures nobody can evidence

Talking early costs nothing. Leaving it late does.

A conversation before the year closes can change what you pay in April. Held in January, the same conversation is only a diagnosis.

If a report was missed the position is clearer still: the voluntary disclosure programs can reduce penalties substantially and sometimes remove them altogether. The single condition is coming forward before the IRS contacts you. The moment an examination opens, that door closes.

In both cases the deciding factor is the same one: timing.

Free, about half an hour, and nothing follows from it — if your situation is not a fit for us, we will say that plainly too.