Wealth and Tax Optimization Strategist
Author of The Art of Tax Planning
Host of the Financially FAT Podcast
Ben Golden is a Wealth & Tax Optimization Strategist who leads Golden Tax Relief and IRS Trouble Solvers. An Enrolled Agent, Certified Tax Planner, Certified Tax Coach and Certified Tax Resolution Specialist, he helps business owners legally reduce what they owe the IRS — and helps taxpayers who already owe it find a way out. He is the author of The Art of Tax Planning and hosts the Financially FAT podcast.
Background
Ben’s career in tax began in the back office. Through his postgraduate years and the career that followed, he prepared returns for a wide range of clients — corporations, trusts, estates and individuals — moving from clerk to staff accountant to business owner.
He purchased Golden Income Tax & Accounting Inc. in Thomasville, Alabama, where he focused on individual taxes, then founded HSG Accounting Inc. in Panama City, Florida, built to support businesses and their owners. Golden Tax Relief LLC followed, and its origin was personal: identity theft put Ben on the receiving end of the IRS’s bureaucracy, and fighting his way through it convinced him that taxpayers needed someone who could do that work for them.
Today he leads two practices that sit at opposite ends of the same problem. Golden Tax Relief builds proactive, custom tax plans that give high-income business owners legal avenues to reduce what they owe, freeing capital to reinvest in their businesses and their lives. IRS Trouble Solvers represents taxpayers who are already in trouble with the agency and need a path back to compliance. Both operate nationwide from offices in Thomasville, Alabama and Elmhurst, Illinois.
Credentials and education
- Enrolled Agent — the highest credential awarded by the Internal Revenue Service
- Certified Tax Planner (CTP)
- Certified Tax Coach (CTC)
- Certified Tax Resolution Specialist (CTRS)
- NTPI Fellow
- M.A. in Taxation, Golden Gate University
- B.S. in Accounting, University of Alabama
Speaking and media
Ben hosts Financially FAT, a podcast for business owners on building and keeping wealth, and appears regularly as a guest on finance and accounting shows.
- All In Podcast
- Grow My Accounting Practice with Mike Michalowicz and Ron Saharyan
- Money Peach with Chris Peach
- Growth Amplifiers with Kenny Harper
- Money Talk 1290, Arlington Financial Advisors
Get in touch
Ben and his team work with business owners nationwide. Start your tax strategy here, or call (844) 229-8936.