Tax advice that arrives before the tax does.

Bridge is the year-round tax advisor for business owners, professionals and families. We plan the decisions while they can still change the outcome, through Bridge Protect™, Bridge for Business™ and CFO Insight™.

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One tax year, drawn to scale

Your tax outcome is set by what happens between January and December. The return filed the next spring only reports it.

  • Where the outcome is decided: January to December
  • Where most tax help begins: the April deadline

The year in question, then the next January through April.

Tax planning

A tax advisor all year, not a preparer once a year.

Successful people make dozens of decisions a year that change their tax. Most of them make those decisions without a tax advisor in the room.

What Bridge doesWe stay with the decisions through the year: compensation, entity structure, retirement timing, real estate, equity, the sale of a business. Each one is made with the tax consequence known.

What Bridge does not doWe do not manage investments or sell financial products. We work alongside your financial advisor, attorney and other professionals as the tax advisor in the room.

The Bridge relationships

Three ways to have Bridge on your side.

Each is an annual advisory relationship, and each includes everything in the one before it. Your return is prepared inside the relationship, so what was planned is what gets filed.

Bridge Protect™

For individuals and families

Your whole tax picture, planned once and worked every quarter, so income changes, investments, retirement timing and life events are decided with the tax in view.

Tax Health Assessment™, written action plan, quarterly planning reviews and your federal and resident-state return.
Everything in Protect, plus

Bridge for Business™

For business owners

One plan for the business and the household. Entity, compensation and distributions, retirement plan design, family payroll and estimates, planned as one tax picture.

An assessment across the business, the owners and the household, quarterly reviews on both, and the business and owners' returns.
Everything in Bridge for Business, plus

CFO Insight™

For established businesses

A recurring decision discipline for owners who want the tax consequence of hiring, pay, equipment and distributions known before they decide.

A metric panel refreshed every cycle, a decision calendar and a written decision log. Bridge advises; it does not run your operations.
You don't need to choose. Finding the right fit together is what Discovery is for.Start with a conversation

Every relationship begins the same way

Discovery

Forty-five minutes to understand your situation and what you want to accomplish, decide together whether Bridge is the right fit, and explain which relationship would serve you.

Tax Health Assessment™

A substantive diagnostic of where you stand: your baseline, your priorities and a written roadmap. Planning starts from evidence about your situation, not a general conversation.

Quarterly Reviews

The plan is worked through the year: progress, new developments and the decisions coming up, with the year-end recap in the last review.

Bridge Resolution™

Serious IRS problem? We take it from here.

Back taxes, unfiled years, a levy on your bank account, a garnishment, a lien or an audit letter. From the day you authorize us, Bridge deals with the IRS for you.

What you get first

  1. We take controlOnce you sign the authorization, we deal with the IRS for you. Send us any IRS letter you receive.
  2. Exactly where you standEvery year, balance, penalty and filing, taken from your IRS record rather than estimated.
  3. Your deadlines, risks and leverageThe dates that protect you, the dates that limit collection, and where you have room to act.
  4. Your Resolution RoadmapIn writing: where you stand, what happens if nothing is done, and which paths are open to you.
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Or book a 30-minute call about your notice and what to do next.

Talk to us about your IRS problem

This first phase is a fixed fee, set before work begins. Nothing in it obligates you to the next phase.

If your letter says
CP14
A balance is due. The first bill, and the best time to act.
CP501 / CP503
Reminders that the balance is still unpaid.
CP504
Notice of intent to levy. Collection is escalating.
LT11 / Letter 1058
Final notice of intent to levy, with the right to request a Collection Due Process hearing.
Letter 3172
A federal tax lien has been filed, with the right to request a hearing.
CP2000
The IRS proposes changes because reported income does not match its records.
“When I felt overwhelmed, Joel remained calm, confident, and solution-focused. His expertise and dedication gave me peace of mind during a very difficult time.”
Kris Morin · Google review
In our clients' words
5.0

From 204 reviews on Google, across planning, Resolution and preparation.

Rating as shown on Google, October 14, 2026.

Read the reviews on Google
“When I launched my company last year, he guided me through every step and made everything feel manageable. Since then, he's been by my side for all tax planning.”
Business ownerGabrielle Correia · Google review
“We truly appreciate having quarterly check-ins instead of waiting until tax season.”
Tax planningAngela · Google review
“He helped straighten out an old filing I had previously done myself when I was being audited.”
IRS auditStephanie Musco · Google review
For financial advisors

We advise on tax. You keep the plan.

Bridge is a tax advisory firm. We do not manage investments, sell products or compete for assets, so introducing a client to us never puts your relationship at risk.

What your client gains is a tax advisor who works through the year: one who plans the tax side of the decisions you are already helping them make, and who is glad to have you in the room for the conversations that matter.

Introduce a client

Your advisors

Senior advisors on every relationship.

You work directly with the people who advise you, from the first Tax Health Assessment™ through every Quarterly Review and every IRS matter. Bridge's systems make the work unusually thorough and consistent; the judgment is always an advisor's.Enrolled Agents hold the highest credential the IRS awards and have unlimited practice rights before the IRS.

Joel Nowakowski
Principal

Joel NowakowskiEA, MST, MBA

Joel built Bridge on a simple conviction: most tax outcomes are decided long before anyone looks at them.

His practice centers on year-round tax planning, including complex planning for high-net-worth individuals, families and the businesses they own. He designed the Bridge planning system that keeps that advice specific, documented and carried through the year.

He also represents clients before the IRS, where complex matters, including back taxes, liens, levies, garnishments and audits, are a substantial part of his work.

Enrolled Agent · admitted to practice before the IRS · Master of Science in Taxation · MBA · Member, American Society of Tax Problem Solvers · U.S. Navy veteran

Viktoriya Parker
Senior Tax Advisor

Viktoriya ParkerEA

Viktoriya brings an Enrolled Agent's technical depth to the details that decide an outcome.

She handles the firm's complex individual, business and multi-state work, where one state's rules or one missing document can change the result, and she takes part in clients' planning reviews. Her focus is the analysis and documentation good advice depends on, so recommendations rest on facts rather than assumptions.

Enrolled Agent · admitted to practice before the IRS · Nearly a decade of tax and accounting experience

Insights

Useful answers, written by the people who advise.

Practical guidance on planning, business-owner tax questions and IRS problems, from Bridge's advisors.

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