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About the practice
A tax practice built to work wherever you are. Clients across eighteen states and Americans living abroad are all served the same way — securely and remotely, without anyone driving anywhere or waiting for an office to open.
Kevin Park, EA
Everstead Tax Services
Everstead Tax Services is an independent tax practice led by Kevin Park, an Enrolled Agent licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury (License #00159187-EA). The practice handles individual and business tax preparation, year-round planning, and representation before the IRS.
Four areas account for most of the work that comes through the door:
- Individual returns, including multi-state filings. People who moved during the year, work across state lines, or hold property in more than one state — the returns where a state gets missed or income gets sourced to the wrong one.
- Business returns. Schedule C, partnership, and S corporation returns, prepared together with the owner's personal return rather than as a separate exercise.
- Estate and trust returns, and inheritance tax. Fiduciary income tax returns on Form 1041, and Pennsylvania inheritance tax returns for executors and administrators settling an estate.
- IRS and state notices. Reading what the letter actually says, pulling transcripts to find what triggered it, and responding inside the deadline — so the matter closes instead of escalating.
No office to visit — by design
Returns have been prepared for clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, Maine, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Idaho, Nevada, and California, along with U.S. citizens living overseas. A practice anchored to one office could not serve that spread, so this one is not anchored to one.
Enrolled Agent licensure is federal rather than state-by-state, so those eighteen are simply where clients have been so far — not a limit. Expatriate returns are a deliberate focus: the foreign earned income exclusion, foreign tax credits, FBAR, and FATCA reporting are work that suits a practice with no time zone to defend.
Documents move through a secure channel, returns are reviewed with you before filing, and signatures are electronic. Send a question at whatever hour actually suits you rather than waiting for an office to open — replies come within a business day.
Want to sit down and talk something through? You still can. Those meetings happen over Zoom or Google Meet, and they work the way an office meeting works: your own return on the screen between us, the same back-and-forth, the same hour of undivided attention. What you give up is the drive.
Languages: English and Korean.
The credential
What an Enrolled Agent actually is
It is the oldest tax credential in the country and the only one issued by the federal government specifically for tax practice — and it is widely misunderstood.
Federally licensed
Enrolled Agents are licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, not by an individual state. The license is earned by passing a three-part examination covering individual taxation, business taxation, and representation, practice, and procedure — or through qualifying experience at the IRS.
Unlimited practice rights
Enrolled Agents, CPAs, and attorneys are the only three categories of practitioner with unlimited rights to represent taxpayers before the IRS. Preparers outside those three groups have limited rights at best — generally confined to returns they personally signed.
Tax is the whole job
The EA credential exists only for taxation. There is no audit practice, no financial statement work, no adjacent specialty pulling attention elsewhere. Continuing education is required annually and is entirely in federal tax and ethics.
How the work is done
Four commitments
You will understand your own return
Every return is reviewed with you before it is filed — not emailed over for a signature. If a number surprises you, that is a conversation, not a formality. Clients who understand why they owe what they owe make better decisions the following year.
The price is set before the work
Flat fees, quoted in writing after scope is understood. No hourly meters, no line items added at delivery. If the scope genuinely changes mid-engagement, you hear about it before the work happens, not after.
Answers come in plain language
Tax has its own vocabulary and most of it is unnecessary in conversation. Questions get answered in terms of what it means for you and what you should do — the code sections stay in the workpapers where they belong.
Available outside of filing season
The decisions that change a tax bill are usually made in June or October, not April. Clients are encouraged to call before doing something significant — selling property, taking a distribution, changing entity structure — rather than reporting it afterward.
The name
Everstead
A steading is a place that holds — a working property, maintained, meant to last. "Ever" is the part that matters: the intent is a practice clients stay with for decades, through business formations and sales, moves between states, retirements, and everything the tax code does to the years in between.
Start with a conversation.
No cost, no obligation, and no pressure to move your work if it turns out you don't need to.