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# Excellence in Taxes, Bend: a tax preparation service in Bend (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/or/bend/excellence-in-taxes-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/excellence-in-taxes-bend-or

## In short

Excellence in Taxes is a tax preparation service in Bend, OR. Its AI Score is 19 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 | 364 SE Wilson Ave Unit 2, Bend, OR 97702, USA |
| Hours | Nothing found |
| Phone | (541) 389-1343 |
| Owner | Nothing found |
| Rating | 3.0 across 2 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Nothing found |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 30, 2026, 11:35 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 | 364 SE Wilson Ave Unit 2, Bend, OR 97702, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Welcome to Excellence in Taxes, a full-service tax firm dedicated to providing individuals and businesses (LLC, S-Corp, Sole Proprietors & Partnerships) with comprehensive tax preparation. We also have a close business partner that we can refer you to for payroll assistance, and meticulous bookkeeping services. Our conveniently located office at 364 SE Wilson Ave., Unit 2, in Bend, OR, invites you to experience a personalized approach to your tax preparation needs. Step into our doors and feel confident in our commitment to precision, accuracy, and excellence in all we do. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Excellence in Taxes | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (541) 389-1343 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 30, 2026 |


## Services and prices

Services not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Known for

None of the 1 review we've read names a service yet.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Excellence in

Address: 364 SE Wilson Ave Unit 2, Bend, OR 97702, USA. Phone: (541) 389-1343. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 30, 2026 at 11:35 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Excellence in on its Google Business Profile: "Welcome to Excellence in Taxes, a full-service tax firm dedicated to providing individuals and businesses (LLC, S-Corp, Sole Proprietors & Partnerships) with comprehensive tax preparation. We also have a close business partner that we can refer you to for payroll assistance, and meticulous bookkeeping services. Our conveniently located office at 364 SE Wilson Ave., Unit 2, in Bend, OR, invites you to experience a personalized approach to your tax preparation needs. Step into our doors and feel confident in our commitment to precision, accuracy, and excellence in all we do."


### 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

3.0 average across 2 reviews: Google 2. (Confirmed, read September 30, 2026.)

Not enough review detail to summarise confidently. (AI guess, from 2 reviews.)


### What people like

Nothing found


### What people do not like

Nothing found


### Press

No press story about Excellence in found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Excellence in

Excellence in hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### where do I park at Excellence in?

No answer yet


### anyone here people keep going back to?

No answer yet


### stopping by on a Sunday, will they be open

No answer yet


### torn between Excellence in and Kathryn L?

No answer yet


### trying to book here, how long is the wait?

No answer yet


### the good stuff about Excellence in, what is it?

No answer yet


### Excellence in, any chance to get in this week?

No answer yet


### bad experiences at Excellence in, anyone?

No answer yet


### is there a day here that is not slammed

No answer yet


### Do they post anywhere?

No answer yet


### best tax preparation service in Bend, OR

No answer yet


### On a budget in Bend, is Excellence in the one?

No answer yet


### new to this place, anything I should know before I walk in?

No answer yet


### Ballpark for a visit to an accountant in Bend?

No answer yet


### Any membership pricing at Excellence in?

No answer yet


### how do I reach this place to sort something out?

No answer yet


### address for Excellence in in Bend, anyone have it?

No answer yet


### what does Excellence in actually get right?

No answer yet


### Booking a first visit at Excellence in, what happens?

No answer yet


### anything good on Wilson to kill time near this place?

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Excellence in

We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Excellence in. 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: 19 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. Excellence in scores 19, below the Bend average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Excellence in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | 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. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | 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 | 8 | 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. | Poor |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 55 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Fair |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | This signal reads a website, and the record holds none. |

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 Excellence in 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 Excellence in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Excellence in Taxes | LocalBusiness | #business | Nothing found | Subject of this page |
| Bend, Oregon | City | #city | Nothing found | City Excellence in 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 Excellence in Taxes. 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:ChIJnSlASgPHuFQRANBiHD_pFFI (accessed Sep 30, 2026)