When you're choosing a physician, you don't shop for the cheapest one. You look for someone who will actually diagnose what's wrong—not just treat symptoms. Someone who stays current, looks at the whole picture, and catches problems before they become expensive.

Tax planning works the same way.

A low-cost CPA will file your return. That's the equivalent of checking your vitals and sending you home. But they're not running the diagnostic tests. They're not looking for the $50,000 in deductions hiding in your entity structure, your retirement accounts, or your real estate holdings. They're not coordinating your tax strategy with your wealth-building goals.

You already know the cost of a missed diagnosis in medicine. It compounds.

The cost of a missed tax strategy is the same. Every year you overpay is a year that money isn't working for you.