# Washington Tax Services, Seattle: a tax attorney in Seattle (2026 guide) Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/wa/seattle/washington-tax-services-seattle-wa. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 10 sources. Updated 2026-10-20. Owner review: not yet. 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Its AI Score is 26 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 attorney | | Address | 506 2nd Ave Ste 1010, Seattle, WA 98104, USA | | Hours | Mon to Fri 7 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun | | Phone | (206) 282-4555 | | Owner | Nothing found | | Rating | 4.7 across 201 reviews on Google | | Known for | Nothing found | | Prices | Nothing found | | Quietest time | Nothing found | | Parking | Nothing found | | Last verified | September 18, 2026, 7:18 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 | 506 2nd Ave Ste 1010, Seattle, WA 98104, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Description | For 35 years, WATAX solves tax problems from as ordinary as unfiled tax returns to sorting out large balances owed to the IRS. Our institutional knowledge is second to none. WATAX also has an efficient system of customer service with a high percentage of success. We begin every case by researching your IRS record, laying a map to resolve your case and then completing your case the quickest, least expensive and legal way. WATAX provides a full range of assistance with tax issues including: Tax Preparation Services, Liability Resolution, Bookkeeping Services (personal/business), Expat Services (including assistance for digital nomads, Owners of Foreign Corperations, FBAR declarations), Business Entity Formation, and IRS Representation. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Name | Washington Tax Services | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Location info | Phone | (206) 282-4555 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Monday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Tuesday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Wednesday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Thursday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Friday | 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | | Services | Service | Audit defense | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Books | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Irs collections | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Payroll tax resolution | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Penalty abatement | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Podcast | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | State tax resolution | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Tax problem situations | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Services | Service | Unfiled returns assistance | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 18, 2026 | | Links | Website | https://watax.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 14, 2026 | ## Services and prices These are the 9 services Washington Tax offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from. | Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Payroll tax resolution | | | | Confirmed | | Books | | | | Confirmed | | Audit defense | | | | Confirmed | | Penalty abatement | | | | Confirmed | | Podcast | | | | Confirmed | | State tax resolution | | | | Confirmed | | Tax problem situations | | | | Confirmed | | Unfiled returns assistance | | | | Confirmed | | Irs collections | | | | Confirmed | ### Known for Reviews not read yet, back on Scan Day. ## The team Nothing found ## Visiting Washington Tax Address: 506 2nd Ave Ste 1010, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. Phone: (206) 282-4555. Hours: Mon to Fri 7 AM to 6 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 14, 2026 at 3:24 PM.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile Business description, written by Washington Tax on its Google Business Profile: "For 35 years, WATAX solves tax problems from as ordinary as unfiled tax returns to sorting out large balances owed to the IRS. Our institutional knowledge is second to none. WATAX also has an efficient system of customer service with a high percentage of success. We begin every case by researching your IRS record, laying a map to resolve your case and then completing your case the quickest, least expensive and legal way. WATAX provides a full range of assistance with tax issues including: Tax Preparation Services, Liability Resolution, Bookkeeping Services (personal/business), Expat Services (including assistance for digital nomads, Owners of Foreign Corperations, FBAR declarations), Business Entity Formation, and IRS Representation." ### When to go Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day. ### Parking and getting in Nothing found ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Cozymeal Cooking Classes | Educational institution | 1 min walk | | Caffe Vita at Smith Tower | Coffee shop | 1 min walk | | Smith Tower Observatory & Bar | Bar | 1 min walk | | Smith Tower | Historical landmark | 1 min walk | | Shawn O'Donnell's American Grill and Irish Pub | Irish pub | 1 min walk | | MOTO Pizza Pioneer Square | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.7 average across 201 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 14, 2026.) (AI guess, from 201 reviews.) ### What people like Nothing found ### What people do not like - Slow communication and response times - Frustrating experiences with unresolved tax issues - Rude or curt interactions with staff ### Press No press story about Washington Tax found yet. ### Awards None named yet. ### Directories Listed on 0 of the 16 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Alignable | Not listed | | Birdeye | Not listed | | Cylex | Not listed | | DexKnows | Not listed | | Facebook | Not listed | | Foursquare | Not listed | | Hotfrog | Not listed | | Manta | Not listed | | MapQuest | Not listed | | MerchantCircle | Not listed | | Nextdoor | Not listed | | Superpages | Not listed | | Thumbtack | Not listed | | Trustpilot | Not listed | | Tupalo | Not listed | | Yellowbook | Not listed | ## Recent updates from Washington Tax Washington Tax hasn't posted an update here yet. ## Questions people ask ### people keep recommending Washington Tax, what for? No answer yet ### is Insight any better No answer yet ### Finance options, anyone used them? No answer yet ### cheaper than Washington Tax in Seattle without it being sketchy? No answer yet ### do I need to book this firm or can I just turn up? No answer yet ### anything new from Washington Tax lately? No answer yet ### Somewhere to park near Washington Tax? No answer yet ### points or member pricing here, worth signing up? No answer yet ### Coffee near Washington Tax on 2nd? No answer yet ### services here, what do people go in for? No answer yet ### Why do people rate this firm? No answer yet ### best tax attorney in Seattle No answer yet ### what do people actually pay at lawyers around Seattle No answer yet ### bad experiences at Washington Tax, anyone? No answer yet ### Saturdays at Washington Tax, are they open? No answer yet ### anyone tell me what a first meeting here involves No answer yet ### Are the hours on Google right for Washington Tax in Seattle? No answer yet ## What AI gets wrong about Washington Tax We ask Gemini and ChatGPT about Washington Tax. These are the answers that disagree with the record. ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 19, 2026. No capture has disagreed with the record yet. ## The AI Score: 26 of 100 The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Seattle tax attorneys run 23 to 50. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Washington Tax scores 26, below the Seattle average of 36. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Washington Tax | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | 39 | 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 | 7 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 1 of 15 answers that recommended anyone. 8 more named nobody, which is not a loss and is not scored. | | Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | 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. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 57 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 65 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Good | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 64 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology ## How AI decides what to tell you about a tax attorney 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 attorney in Washington, 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 Washington. ## 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 Washington Tax 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 Washington Tax | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Washington Tax Services | LocalBusiness | #business | https://watax.com/ | Subject of this page | | Seattle, Washington | City | #city | Nothing found | City Washington Tax 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 attorneys in Seattle, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best tax attorneys in Seattle: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/seattle/tax-attorney - Best businesses in Seattle: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/seattle ### Nearby - /wenatchee: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/wenatchee - /east-wenatchee: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/east-wenatchee - /bellevue: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/bellevue - /moses-lake: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/moses-lake - /leavenworth: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/leavenworth - /chelan: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa/chelan ### Every list - Every leaderboard in Washington: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/wa ## 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 Washington Tax Services. 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:ChIJye62qidAkFQRP9umSqcw16E (accessed Aug 14, 2026) - [2] watax.com, https://watax.com/services/examination-or-audit-of-your-federal-or-state-issue (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [3] watax.com, https://watax.com/books (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [4] watax.com, https://watax.com/services/unfiled-returns-and-irs-collection-pressure-balance-due (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [5] watax.com, https://watax.com/services/unpaid-941-payroll-taxes-for-your-business (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [6] watax.com, https://watax.com/services/waiving-irs-penalties (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [7] watax.com, https://watax.com/podcast (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [8] watax.com, https://watax.com/services/state-tax-resolution (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [9] watax.com, https://watax.com/services (accessed Sep 18, 2026) - [10] watax.com, https://watax.com/services/unfiled-returns-with-no-irs-collection-pressure (accessed Sep 18, 2026)