first time here, what is it actually like?
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Tax preparation service in Bend, OR
4.2 · 18 reviewsOpen today until 7 PMOpen until 7
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
25AI ScoreNamed in 0 of 1 answerChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 30, 2026.ConfirmedVisitor submittedVisitorAI guess
Our goal is to prepare tax returns, educate, and consult with our clients so that they can make better-informed decisions that affect their business and/or personal tax returns. We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients and their financial needs. We will always endeavor to provide our clients with mitigating their tax liability, while at the same time viewing the road ahead so as not to create a burden in a later year.
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Answers marked AI. Summaries of reviews and the record.
What Columbia Pacific offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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What reviews, press and directories say about Columbia Pacific.
4.2from 18 reviews on Google
The service is known for its dedicated tax preparers, but experiences can vary significantly due to organizational issues. Customers describe a mixed experience at this tax preparation service, with some praising the thoroughness and dedication of certain tax preparers, while others report disorganization and poor communication. The atmosphere seems to fluctuate between supportive and frustrating, depending on the individual tax preparer and the specific circumstances.
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Local AI Registry · Tax preparation services in Bend, OR · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Former Google Search executive and former Microsoft executive, with 20+ years in digital.
Fact-checked against 1 source · Published September 30, 2026 · Updated September 30, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
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Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC is a tax preparation service in Bend, OR. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor.
Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Tax preparation service |
| Address | 547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (541) 318-7001 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.2 across 18 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Columbia Pacific Tax Service excels in providing personalized tax preparation and accounting services, particularly for individuals and small businesses in Bend and Redmond. Their knowledgeable staff, especially Patti Poe-King, is frequently highlighted for their dedication and thoroughness. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 30, 2026, 11:23 PM |
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| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Our goal is to prepare tax returns, educate, and consult with our clients so that they can make better-informed decisions that affect their business and/or personal tax returns. We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients and their financial needs. We will always endeavor to provide our clients with mitigating their tax liability, while at the same time viewing the road ahead so as not to create a burden in a later year. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (541) 318-7001 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Links | https://facebook.com/Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | https://cptax.pro/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
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Columbia Pacific Tax Service excels in providing personalized tax preparation and accounting services, particularly for individuals and small businesses in Bend and Redmond. Their knowledgeable staff, especially Patti Poe-King, is frequently highlighted for their dedication and thoroughness.
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Address: 547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA. Phone: (541) 318-7001. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 30, 2026 at 11:23 PM.)
Business description, written by Columbia Pacific on its Google Business Profile: "Our goal is to prepare tax returns, educate, and consult with our clients so that they can make better-informed decisions that affect their business and/or personal tax returns. We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients and their financial needs. We will always endeavor to provide our clients with mitigating their tax liability, while at the same time viewing the road ahead so as not to create a burden in a later year."
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4.2 average across 18 reviews: Google 18. (Confirmed, read September 30, 2026.)
The service is known for its dedicated tax preparers, but experiences can vary significantly due to organizational issues. (AI guess, from 18 reviews.)
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We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Columbia Pacific. These are the answers that disagree with the record.
ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 30, 2026.
No capture has disagreed with the record yet.
The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bend tax preparation services run 19 to 36. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Columbia Pacific scores 25, below the Bend average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Columbia Pacific |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 47 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Fair |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 62 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.
That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.
The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."
A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.
Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.
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| Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC | LocalBusiness | #business | https://cptax.pro/ | Subject of this page |
| Bend, Oregon | City | #city | Nothing found | City Columbia Pacific is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the tax preparation services in Bend, linked to the lists and towns around it.
Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.
The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.
Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.
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Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
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# Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC, Bend: a tax preparation service in Bend (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/columbia-pacific-tax-service-llc-bend-or. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 1 source. Updated 2026-10-01. Owner review: not yet. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/columbia-pacific-tax-service-llc-bend-or ## Photos -  -  ## In short Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC is a tax preparation service in Bend, OR. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor. Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page. ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Tax preparation service | | Address | 547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun | | Phone | (541) 318-7001 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.2 across 18 reviews on Google | | Known for | Columbia Pacific Tax Service excels in providing personalized tax preparation and accounting services, particularly for individuals and small businesses in Bend and Redmond. Their knowledgeable staff, especially Patti Poe-King, is frequently highlighted for their dedication and thoroughness. | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 30, 2026, 11:23 PM | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Description | Our goal is to prepare tax returns, educate, and consult with our clients so that they can make better-informed decisions that affect their business and/or personal tax returns. We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients and their financial needs. We will always endeavor to provide our clients with mitigating their tax liability, while at the same time viewing the road ahead so as not to create a burden in a later year. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (541) 318-7001 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | | Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://cptax.pro/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 | ## Services and prices Services not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Known for Columbia Pacific Tax Service excels in providing personalized tax preparation and accounting services, particularly for individuals and small businesses in Bend and Redmond. Their knowledgeable staff, especially Patti Poe-King, is frequently highlighted for their dedication and thoroughness. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Columbia Pacific Address: 547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA. Phone: (541) 318-7001. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 30, 2026 at 11:23 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Columbia Pacific on its Google Business Profile: "Our goal is to prepare tax returns, educate, and consult with our clients so that they can make better-informed decisions that affect their business and/or personal tax returns. We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients and their financial needs. We will always endeavor to provide our clients with mitigating their tax liability, while at the same time viewing the road ahead so as not to create a burden in a later year." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby Nearby places not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## Reputation 4.2 average across 18 reviews: Google 18. (Confirmed, read September 30, 2026.) The service is known for its dedicated tax preparers, but experiences can vary significantly due to organizational issues. (AI guess, from 18 reviews.) ### What people like - Thorough assistance with personal and business taxes - Knowledgeable and dedicated tax preparers - Long-term client relationships ### What people do not like - Disorganization in handling client documents - Poor communication regarding tax preparation status - Increased fees without prior notice ### Press No press story about Columbia Pacific found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Directory listings not read yet. ## Recent updates from Columbia Pacific Columbia Pacific hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### first time here, what is it actually like? No answer yet ### Whereabouts is this place? No answer yet ### Sundays at Columbia Pacific, are they open? No answer yet ### Worth the hype at Columbia Pacific? No answer yet ### what time does Columbia Pacific in Bend actually open? No answer yet ### how do I reach Columbia Pacific to sort something out? No answer yet ### Why do people rate Columbia Pacific? No answer yet ### is Kathryn L any better for Personalized tax preparation services No answer yet ### are prices in Bend higher than everywhere else No answer yet ### killing time on Bellevue, any ideas No answer yet ### quietest day to hit Columbia Pacific? No answer yet ### best tax preparation service in Bend, OR No answer yet ### do I need to leave early to find a space No answer yet ### budget options in Bend, what is decent No answer yet ### Columbia Pacific, any chance to get in this week? No answer yet ### Any names worth asking for? No answer yet ### booking ahead here, how far do people go? No answer yet ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? No answer yet ### membership, worth it or not No answer yet ### anything new here lately? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Columbia Pacific We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Columbia Pacific. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 30, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 25 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bend tax preparation services run 19 to 36. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Columbia Pacific scores 25, below the Bend average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Columbia Pacific | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 47 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Fair | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 50 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 79 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 62 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a tax preparation service When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on. That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today. The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place." ## How to choose a tax preparation service in Oregon, with or without AI A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating. - Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door. - Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake. - Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today. - Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes. - Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Oregon. ## How to read the marks on this page - Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry. - Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit. - AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it. ## About the author Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine. - Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping. - Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing. - Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Columbia Pacific if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source. ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Columbia Pacific | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC | LocalBusiness | #business | https://cptax.pro/ | Subject of this page | | Bend, Oregon | City | #city | Nothing found | City Columbia Pacific is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the tax preparation services in Bend, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best tax preparation services in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend/tax-preparation-service - Best businesses in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend ### Nearby - /portland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/portland - /redmond: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/redmond - /eugene: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/eugene - /salem: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/salem ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Oregon: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or ## Frequently asked questions ### What is AI search optimization for local business? Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it. ### What is Local AI Registry? The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free. ### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI? Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next. ### Who writes the answers here? Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so. ### I own Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC. How do I fix something or rank higher? Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work. ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJbejP8ArGuFQRG6PvD7RiZHc (accessed Sep 30, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Tax preparation services in Bend, OR · Editorial</p>
<h2>Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC, Bend: a tax preparation service in Bend (2026 guide)</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Former Google Search executive and former Microsoft executive, with 20+ years in digital.</p>
<p>Fact-checked against 1 source · Published September 30, 2026 · Updated September 30, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
<p>Owner review: not yet. Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC has not checked this page.</p>
</header>
<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC is a tax preparation service in Bend, OR. Its AI Score is 25 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like Gemini and ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Type</td><td>Tax preparation service</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(541) 318-7001</td></tr>
<tr><td>Owner</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.2 across 18 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Known for</td><td>Columbia Pacific Tax Service excels in providing personalized tax preparation and accounting services, particularly for individuals and small businesses in Bend and Redmond. Their knowledgeable staff, especially Patti Poe-King, is frequently highlighted for their dedication and thoroughness.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Prices</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Parking</td><td>Nothing found</td></tr>
<tr><td>Last verified</td><td>September 30, 2026, 11:23 PM</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Our goal is to prepare tax returns, educate, and consult with our clients so that they can make better-informed decisions that affect their business and/or personal tax returns. We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients and their financial needs. We will always endeavor to provide our clients with mitigating their tax liability, while at the same time viewing the road ahead so as not to create a burden in a later year.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Fri 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM · Sun Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(541) 318-7001</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>9:00 AM to 7:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>9:00 AM to 7:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>9:00 AM to 7:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>9:00 AM to 7:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>9:00 AM to 7:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>9:00 AM to 4:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>Closed</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Facebook</td><td>https://facebook.com/Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://cptax.pro/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026</td></tr>
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</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<p>Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.</p>
<h4>Known for</h4>
<p>Columbia Pacific Tax Service excels in providing personalized tax preparation and accounting services, particularly for individuals and small businesses in Bend and Redmond. Their knowledgeable staff, especially Patti Poe-King, is frequently highlighted for their dedication and thoroughness.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
<p>Nothing found</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-columbia-pacific">
<h3>Visiting Columbia Pacific</h3>
<p>Address: 547 NE Bellevue Dr #108, Bend, OR 97701, USA. Phone: (541) 318-7001. Hours: Mon to Fri 9 AM to 7 PM · Sat 9 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 30, 2026 at 11:23 PM.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>Business description, written by Columbia Pacific on its Google Business Profile: "Our goal is to prepare tax returns, educate, and consult with our clients so that they can make better-informed decisions that affect their business and/or personal tax returns. We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients and their financial needs. We will always endeavor to provide our clients with mitigating their tax liability, while at the same time viewing the road ahead so as not to create a burden in a later year."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<p>Nothing found</p>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<p>Nearby places not read yet, back on Scan Day.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.2 average across 18 reviews: Google 18. (Confirmed, read September 30, 2026.)</p>
<p>The service is known for its dedicated tax preparers, but experiences can vary significantly due to organizational issues. (AI guess, from 18 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Thorough assistance with personal and business taxes</li>
<li>Knowledgeable and dedicated tax preparers</li>
<li>Long-term client relationships</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Disorganization in handling client documents</li>
<li>Poor communication regarding tax preparation status</li>
<li>Increased fees without prior notice</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<p>No press story about Columbia Pacific found yet.</p>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<p>None named yet.</p>
<h4>Directories</h4>
<p>Directory listings not read yet.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-recent-updates-from-columbia-pacific">
<h3>Recent updates from Columbia Pacific</h3>
<p>Columbia Pacific hasn't posted an update here yet.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>first time here, what is it actually like?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Whereabouts is this place?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Sundays at Columbia Pacific, are they open?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Worth the hype at Columbia Pacific?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>what time does Columbia Pacific in Bend actually open?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>how do I reach Columbia Pacific to sort something out?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Why do people rate Columbia Pacific?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>is Kathryn L any better for Personalized tax preparation services</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>are prices in Bend higher than everywhere else</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>killing time on Bellevue, any ideas</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>quietest day to hit Columbia Pacific?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>best tax preparation service in Bend, OR</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>do I need to leave early to find a space</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>budget options in Bend, what is decent</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Columbia Pacific, any chance to get in this week?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Any names worth asking for?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>booking ahead here, how far do people go?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>membership, worth it or not</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
<h4>anything new here lately?</h4>
<p>No answer yet</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-what-ai-gets-wrong">
<h3>What AI gets wrong about Columbia Pacific</h3>
<p>We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Columbia Pacific. These are the answers that disagree with the record.</p>
<p>ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 30, 2026.</p>
<p>No capture has disagreed with the record yet.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 25 of 100</h3>
<p>The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bend tax preparation services run 19 to 36. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Columbia Pacific scores 25, below the Bend average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Columbia Pacific</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>0</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>40</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. 1 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>47</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>50</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>79</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>62</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>77</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-ai-decides-what-to-tell-you-about-a-tax-preparation-service">
<h3>How AI decides what to tell you about a tax preparation service</h3>
<p>When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google about a local business, the AI doesn't visit it. It reads what's already written about it: the business's website, its Google Business Profile, review sites, news stories and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.</p>
<p>That's why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it isn't, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.</p>
<p>The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that names who helped and what they did tells an AI far more than one that says "great place."</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-to-choose-a-tax-preparation-service-in-oregon-with-or-without-ai">
<h3>How to choose a tax preparation service in Oregon, with or without AI</h3>
<p>A few checks take ten minutes and tell you more than any rating.</p>
<ul>
<li>Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the business's own website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.</li>
<li>Read reviews that name a person and what they did. Vague praise is easy to fake.</li>
<li>Look for recent reviews and recent posts. A page nobody has touched in a year may not match the business today.</li>
<li>Ask for the price before you go, and ask what it includes.</li>
<li>Where the work needs a license, ask whose license it is and look it up with Oregon.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-how-to-read-the-marks-on-this-page">
<h3>How to read the marks on this page</h3>
<ul>
<li>Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.</li>
<li>Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.</li>
<li>AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-about-the-author">
<h3>About the author</h3>
<p>Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.</p>
<ul>
<li>Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.</li>
<li>Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.</li>
<li>Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Columbia Pacific if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Columbia Pacific</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://cptax.pro/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Bend, Oregon</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td>Nothing found</td><td>City Columbia Pacific is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the tax preparation services in Bend, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best tax preparation services in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend/tax-preparation-service</li>
<li>Best businesses in Bend: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/bend</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/portland: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/portland</li>
<li>/redmond: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/redmond</li>
<li>/eugene: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/eugene</li>
<li>/salem: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or/salem</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in Oregon: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/or</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-frequently-asked-questions">
<h3>Frequently asked questions</h3>
<h4>What is AI search optimization for local business?</h4>
<p>Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.</p>
<h4>What is Local AI Registry?</h4>
<p>The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.</p>
<h4>How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?</h4>
<p>Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.</p>
<h4>Who writes the answers here?</h4>
<p>Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.</p>
<h4>I own Columbia Pacific Tax Service LLC. How do I fix something or rank higher?</h4>
<p>Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJbejP8ArGuFQRG6PvD7RiZHc (accessed Sep 30, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
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</html>This is the evidence for every fact on this page, across Locals, Services, Team, Visit, Reputation and Updates. Each reference names the fact, the source, what kind of source it is, and the date it was checked, with a link and an archived copy so anyone can verify it. Visitor references are dated firsthand accounts. AI guesses record what an AI engine said on that date, not what is true.