We’re Tucker Accounting Services — a veteran-owned Newport News firm keeping
your books, payroll, and taxes handled all year, so tax season is a filing,
not a fire drill.
It starts with a phone interview — we build the relationship before we touch your books.
4.9 ★ · 61 Google reviews
BBB A+ Accredited
14 years in Newport News
Retired U.S. Air Force owner
Keith Tucker, owner — at the door of Suite D-3, Newport News.
The Pile-Up Board
What’s in your pile?
A few receipts here. An unfinished spreadsheet there. A tax deadline getting closer.
It seems small at first — then the financial work adds up. Tap what’s on your
desk, and watch what happens when each piece lands with the service that handles it.
Your desk — tap an item to put it on the pile
Nothing on the desk yet. Most owners tap three or four.
That’s the whole game: name the pile, and it stops being a pile.
Keith Tucker — owner & founder. Retired U.S. Air Force officer.
Meet Keith
The man behind the books.
Most firms put a stock photo here. We put the owner. Keith Tucker spent
20 years in the U.S. Air Force managing people and budgets — logistics
work, where a small miss compounds into a big problem — then nine years as a defense
contractor and two years inside a CPA firm before opening this practice. That is
over 16 years in accounting and tax work, and 14 of them have been
spent right here, serving Newport News and Hampton Roads.
He is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor who completes the certification every year, keeps up
continuing education in tax, and is background-checked on Thumbtack. You will not be
handed to a queue: the name on the door is the name on your file.
“Define the goals you want to accomplish and apply your gifts and knowledge to work at the goals each day.”
— Keith Tucker, on how he defines success
2012 — today
14 years, Tucker Accounting
His own firm in Newport News — and Hampton Roads home for 22+ years, since a Langley assignment in the late 1990s made Yorktown home. The practice his reviews describe: responsive, clear, year-round.
The Stay-Ahead System™
Handled monthly. Not rescued annually.
Seasonal tax shops meet your books once a year, at the worst possible moment.
We work the way Keith worked in logistics: a steady monthly loop that keeps
every account current, so tax season arrives as a filing, not a fire drill.
At the desk where the loop runs, every month.
01
Transactions reviewed & processed
Every month’s activity categorized and recorded while it’s still fresh — not reconstructed from a shoebox in March.
02
Reconciliations, month- and year-end
Accounts tied back to their records on a rhythm, so a small drift gets caught while it’s still small.
03
Reporting you can hand to your bank
Income statements and balance sheets that hold up when a lender, a landlord, or a buyer reads them.
04
Payroll & filings, on schedule
Payroll support, expense reporting, invoicing — and the sales and payroll tax filings that ride along with them.
05
Planning before deadlines
Tax planning conversations while moves are still available — the whole point of working year-round.
Services
Pick the door that sounds like you.
My books are behind
Months of transactions, a shoebox of receipts, statements you wouldn’t hand your bank. We organize first — then keep them current: reconciliations, expense reporting, invoicing, and reporting that holds up.
Bookkeeping & cleanup
Tax time
Business returns with the forms matched to the entity: Form 1120 for corporations, Form 1065 for partnerships, Form 1120S for S-corporations, Schedule C for sole proprietors and LLCs — plus estate and trust returns.
Individuals: Form 1040 and 1040-SR with Schedules 1, 2, and 3, Schedule B, Schedule D and Form 4797, Schedule E rentals, and Form 8949 for investments — in-state and out-of-state.
Tax preparation
My business is growing
Payroll to run, reports a lender will read, and an entity question you keep postponing. We’ll teach you the differences between an LLC, a partnership, an S-corporation, and a corporation — and the best ways to reduce your overall tax burden.
Payroll · Reporting · Business consulting
I’m in a specific trade
Medical practices, construction firms, and real estate professionals get their own campaigns here for a reason — we already speak those worlds. Food businesses, professional services, and transportation round out the roster.
Healthcare · Construction · Real estate
I got a letter — or a year went unfiled
Unfiled returns, unpaid balances, IRS collection notices. You don’t have to guess your way through it: we’ll review your situation with you, help you understand your options, and agree on the next step together.
Understand your options
Military & multi-state
PCS’d? Rental in another state? File like it.
We provide detailed service to our military and professionals who require
out-of-state returns to be filed — multi-state income, Schedule E rentals,
in-state and out-of-state individual returns.
Hampton Roads runs on military families. This firm is run by a man who served
20 years in the Air Force and made the Langley move himself in the late 1990s.
Your situation isn’t an edge case here; it’s the home crowd.
Keith’s office shelf: the folded flag, the Air Force plaque, and 20 years behind both.
Proof
Neighbors, in their own words.
4.9 ★
on Google — 61 reviews
4.85 ★
on Thumbtack — 61 reviews, Top Pro
102×
hired on Thumbtack
A+
BBB Accredited — 0 complaints in 3 years
QuickBooks ProAdvisor · Background-checked · Veteran-owned · Peninsula Real Producers Preferred Partner · Serving Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton, Williamsburg, Gloucester, Suffolk, Portsmouth, Smithfield & Yorktown
★★★★★
Reached out as I had started an LLC and needed clarification about what I can and cant do. Reached out for filing my 2025 taxes and probably one of the smoother tax filings I’ve done in 20 some years. Most everything is handled online (which I love), but you can quickly chat with the team and Keith as needed. It ran me about $450 but note that everyones taxes are DIFFERENT so cost is based on THAT.
Brian A. · Google review
★★★★★
I’ve been with Keith for many years and watched his business grow. I appreciate his quick responses, but in addition, his proactiveness. Things that I can’t devote tons of attention to, he helps considerably. It gives me tons of relief for my small business operation.
Bradley M. · Google review
★★★★★
We’ve been a customer of Tucker Accounting Services since 2019. Keith has been amazing, not only has he helped us with our taxes, but he also provided professional advice to how we can be more on target for the following year. We are grateful for him and his team.
Leilani H. · Google review
★★★★★
Thankful that Keith took us on this year! Excellent service, and so incredibly easy with everything online!
Kimberly Overton · Google review
★★★★★
Keith Tucker has handled my personal tax needs for several years. I find him to be professional and accommodating.
Dan W. · Google review
★★★★★
Not a client, just had a question. Keith was clear, making sure he understood my questions; very helpful.
Joe R. · Google review
★★★★★
Keith is incredibly professional and thorough in all his work. Keith takes great pride in providing the best service and has a wealth of experience that he shares in a way that makes sense to his clients.
Google review
★★★★★
Keith and his team have been great! They have help get my books up to date! Keith has made it easy to upload files, with secure platform. Thank you for all the help.
Google review
★★★★★
Mr Tucker did a outstanding job on our tax return. He helped us with a situation we had and was very helpful in getting it resolved. He is very professional and very knowledgeable when it comes to helping with tax returns. My husband and I highly recommend him. Thank you Mr Tucker see you next year.
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How It Starts
It starts with a phone call, not a portal.
No intake maze, no quote generator. The first step here has been the same for 14 years: a conversation with the owner.
Across the desk, or across a video call — the conversation comes first.
01
A phone interview first
We build the relationship before we touch your books — what you need, what shape things are in, and what comes first.
02
Documents move securely
Your records transfer through our secure client app. No shoebox required — though if you have one, bring it; that’s step one, not a problem.
03
A fee range, up front
The first figure is a starting point; once we see the full picture, you hear a range — before any work begins. On Thumbtack, tax preparation starts at $275.
04
Meet how it suits you
A video conference whenever it’s easier. The Newport News office when you’d rather sit down — Monday to Friday, 9 to 5.
On Thumbtack, tax preparation starts at $275. Beyond that, the honest answer is a range: the first figure is a starting point, and once we see the full picture on the phone interview, we give you a range before any work begins. Bookkeeping is scoped the same way. No mystery invoices, and no work starts until you have heard the numbers.
No — bringing books up to date is our daily work. Clients come to us with months of uncategorized transactions and leave with reconciled statements they can hand to a bank. Bring the pile exactly as it is: a shoebox of receipts is a starting point, not a disqualification. If a past year also went unfiled, we will talk through that too, in the same conversation.
First: don't ignore it, and don't guess at it alone. Bring the letter to an appointment. We will review your situation together — unfiled returns, an unpaid balance, a collection notice — explain the options available to you in plain language, and agree on the next step. What we will never do is promise you an outcome before we have seen your situation.
Yes. We prepare in-state and out-of-state returns, and we provide detailed service to military members and professionals who need returns filed in more than one state — a PCS move mid-year, a rental property in another state, income earned across state lines. Keith served 20 years in the Air Force and made the Langley move himself; he has filed from both sides of it.
Only if you want to. Most clients work with us online: documents move through our secure client app, and we meet by video conference whenever that's easier. As one client put it, most everything is handled online — with a real person a quick chat away. And the Newport News office is open Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, if you'd rather sit down in person.
That's a conversation we have often. We will teach you the differences between filing as an LLC, a partnership, an S-corporation, or a corporation — and the best ways to reduce your overall tax burden — so the choice fits how your business actually runs, not just how it happened to be set up.
Keith Tucker — the owner — and his team. Keith is background-checked on Thumbtack, a QuickBooks ProAdvisor who completes the certification every year, and the person you meet on the first phone interview is the person who knows your account. Fourteen years in business in Newport News, and the name on the door is the name on your file.
One call, and the pile has an owner
Don’t take a chance on your taxes.
Fourteen years of Hampton Roads owners and families have made the same first move:
a phone interview with the man whose name is on the door. Yours can be this week.
