Tax preparation, Bookkeeping service, Business to business service in Fayetteville, NC
Daphne's Tax Service LLC is a tax preparation and small-business accounting practice with offices in Fayetteville and Raeford, North Carolina, founded in the early 1990s and carrying more than thirty years of combined experience. The practice handles individual income tax preparation and tax planning, and works with small businesses on bookkeeping, payroll services and processing, and business start-up assistance for people setting up a company for the first time. It also runs a dedicated service line for truckers, whose returns involve per-diem rules, multi-state filing and owner-operator deductions that a general preparer may not handle routinely. Clients outside the two office areas are served virtually, so the practice takes work nationally rather than only from Cumberland and Hoke counties. The Fayetteville office is at 3710 Morganton Road, Suite 110, and the Raeford office at 3001 L McLaughlin Road, each with its own phone line and email. The business states its guiding principles as integrity, education, professionalism and community service, and its founder holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an MBA alongside three decades of practice.
Daphne Graham Dudley started Daphne's Tax Service in the early 1990s, and has spent the thirty years since building both the practice and her own qualifications alongside it. She earned an Associate Degree in Applied Science Administration Office Technology in 1994, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Franklin University in 2004, and an MBA from Strayer University in 2009 — each while the business was already running and clients were already depending on her. The practice grew from tax preparation into the wider work small businesses actually need: bookkeeping, payroll, and help getting a new company set up properly from the start. It opened a second office, so there is now one in Fayetteville and one in Raeford, and added a service line for truckers, whose returns carry rules most preparers rarely deal with. Clients further afield are handled virtually. The business names its principles plainly — integrity, education, professionalism and community service — and the education part is not decoration: it describes the founder's own path as much as what she offers her clients.


