The second firm

Why taxifi exists

taxifi is the second accounting firm founder David Dinardo has built. The first ran for over fifteen years, the traditional way, on the same off-the-shelf accounting software every firm uses. It grew to forty accounting professionals, filed more than ten thousand tax returns, and handled thousands of sets of books every month. It worked, and it sold.

Fifteen years inside the old model teaches you exactly where it breaks. The software is built for accountants, not owners: complex, cumbersome, and fighting you at every step. Too much of the year went to wrestling tools and chasing documents instead of advising people. The service worth delivering, answers when clients need them, books that are never behind, a year-end with no surprises, was simply not possible on that stack at a price a small business could pay.

So after the sale, rather than retire the lesson, he built the firm he had always wanted to run. taxifi replaces the off-the-shelf stack with AI that keeps your books current every day, so the Canadian accountants spend their time where it counts: reviewing your month, planning your tax, and picking up when you call.

The result is the firm the first fifteen years argued for: books current every morning, filings on time, and the person who signs your T2 is the same one who answered your question in July.