Page Created:
        March 21, 1996
Last updated:
        Feb 23, 2024

Only Taxes

Welcome to Only Taxes, internet home of Jay Starkman, P.C.

Jay Starkman is an award-winning CPA in Atlanta, Georgia, with over 40 years experience in public accounting. He has been honored with the AICPA's Arthur J. Dixon Memorial Award, the accounting profession’s highest award in the area of taxation. Tax Analysts named Jay a runner-up “2011 Tax Person of the Year.” The Georgia House of Representatives honored his service to the state with a special resolution. The Georgia Society of CPAs awarded him its Distinguished Member Award. CPA Magazine named him one of the “Top 50 IRS Representation Practitioners.” And he is a FIVE STAR: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Manager in Atlanta Magazine for six years in a row.

The mission of Only Taxes is to bring informative articles and some tax humor to American taxpayers.

Below are Jay's latest articles and developments, including eleven op-eds published in the Wall Street Journal.

Don't forget to visit The Sex of a Hippopotamus: A Unique History of Taxes and Accounting where you will find tax stories, songs and videos. The Wall Street Journal called it, "the only readable book about taxes." Read the review here.

For the taxpayer who has received a Notice of Deficiency from the Internal Revenue Service, this website provides information on filing a Tax Court petition. For the tax professional, we also also offer an extensive page of resources for taking the Tax Court Exam for Nonattorneys.

Check back often for additions to our page of links to other useful tax sites. And feel free to e-mail us with any comments or questions via our new feedback form.


Download a freeware IRS Noncorporate Tax Interest Calculator
([Acrobat logo] Acrobat format) here. We wrote this program ourselves.

Download your 2023 Tax Organizer ([Acrobat logo] Acrobat format) here.


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