ABOUT US

Kent Frye
Enrolled Agent (EA)
Kent Frye–Kent Freiburghouse if you prefer the full name–is the President of Pronto Income Tax of California, Inc.
Kent Frye has 50 years experience preparing income tax returns and is licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS as an Enrolled Agent (E.A.).
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In recent years, Kent has become an author of tax education materials, sharing his knowledge with other tax pros at ourrenewctec.com website for certified continuing education credits.
Kent works mainly out of our Carson office. Kent works almost every day of tax season and year-round so just call the Carson office if you want to reach him.
Kent’s passion for client service sets the example for our entire team and he is frequently voted “Best Boss Ever” by our Pronto Tax Team.
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Casimiro 'Jesse' Peña
Casimiro Peña, or “Jesse” as clients often call him, has been working for Pronto Income Tax since 1996.
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Jesse has been a business owner and entrepreneur since an early age, having started and sold multiple businesses over the course of his career. Jesse works extensively with small business owner clients who value his advice because he has been there before and he knows what he is talking about when it comes to small business tax strategies.
Jesse works mainly out of our Monrovia office but also assists in the East LA location.
Jesse is also a licensed Notary Public.
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Cynthia Fuentes
Enrolled Agent (EA), Senior Tax Consultant
Cynthia was a Founding Member of our West LA office location way back in 2012 and in 2016 she received a major promotion to take over operational leadership of the office. She’s also a top performer in working with clients directly.
If you’d like to schedule a meeting with Cynthia, click here to find a time on her calendar.
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Cynthia has wonderful people skills, she is very diligent in her work, and she is dedicated to providing Pronto clients with extraordinary service with a personalized approach.
Born and raised in Los Angeles and completely bilingual (English/Spanish), Cynthia has now become a top tax professional on the westside of Los Angeles.
If you are looking for a smart, up-and-coming tax professional who can stay with you all through the years to come, ask for Cynthia; she’s really good now and she’s only going to get better as embarks on her veteran portion of her tax & accounting career as Our Fearless Leader of the West LA Office Location.
Need professional tax preparation in the Culver City / Marina Del Rey area? Come visit Cynthia at the Pronto West L.A. office. You can make an appointment with Cynthia using our online appointment booking tool.

Yuridia ("Yuri") Jimenez
Tax Preparer
The newest addition to our West LA Office Team, Yuri Jimenez has extensive experience in the fields of insurance and taxes.
If you are looking to work with an expert who cares about you and your family, you can schedule an appointment with Yuri here at this link.
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She is fluent in English and Spanish and friendly, patient, and helpful.
When not helping clients with tax and insurance needs, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children.

Andy Frye
Enrolled Agent (EA)
Andy Frye–Andrew Freiburghouse if you prefer the full name–has worked for Pronto Income Tax since he was about 5 years old when he began stuffing envelopes for his father Kent Frye, the majority owner of Pronto Income Tax of California, Inc. Andy’s grandfather Wayne was the founder of Pronto Income Tax.
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Known for his passion for serving clients and his halfway decent Gringo Spanish, Andy has been a driving force within our company to make sure that we always keep pushing ourselves to improve.
In January of 2011, Andy set out on a new adventure leading the brand new West Los Angeles office of Pronto Income Tax, our first new location in more than 20 years.
Meanwhile, Andy and a few key teammates at Pronto created our Pronto Tax School education division with the goal of providing tax education to the masses and creating new jobs and business opportunities nationwide.
Always hungry for a new challenge, Andy does minimal tax preparation work these days and focuses mainly on educating and empowering tax professionals via Pronto Tax School.
When needed, Andy also helps clients with more advanced tax consulting, tax planning, and tax problem resolution services.
Andy is licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS as an Enrolled Agent.
Andy has personally prepared more than 10,000 tax returns and trained thousands of other tax professionals nationwide.
Andy is a cum laude graduate of Santa Clara University and a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program.
In addition to his work at Pronto, Andy has published hundreds of articles about financial and business topics.

Joe Earnest
Joe is one of the best and most efficient tax preparers that this world has ever
seen. Email Address: joe@pronto4tax.com

Miguel Perez
Miguel Perez is the manager and main tax preparer at the East Los Angeles office of Pronto Income Tax of California, Inc. Miguel is one of those people that you meet in life who can talk to anyone and is respected in the local community because of his sincere and caring nature, as well as his ability to have a good laugh.
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Miguel is an expert at preparing Individual Taxpayer Identification Number applications (Form W-7), claims for the Earned Income Credit, and Schedule A Itemized Deductions.
Miguel can be reached by calling our East Los Angeles Office.Thank you Miguel for all that you do!
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Sonia Lugo
Sonia is one of our best tax professionals working out of our Carson office location. Email Address: sonia@pronto4tax.com

Tim Frye
Tim Frye–Timothy Freiburghouse if you prefer the full name–had a great first four years as a tax preparer preparing more than 1,700 tax returns mainly out of the Monrovia office. The average number of tax returns prepared during the first three years for a Pronto preparer is around 700, so you can see that Tim far out-performed the average.
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Over the summer of 2011, Tim was instrumental in developing Pronto Tax Class, our new course to help people become professional tax preparers. Putting in more than 400 hours of research and writing on the topic of income tax law, Tim showed that he has what it takes to learn this difficult business. We’ll tell you what, it’s not as easy as it looks sometimes, but when you work as hard as Tim has to learn this trade, hard work pays off.
Tim continues to expand his tax knowledge and bring advanced tax strategies to Pronto Clients, with a true passion for helping people. Tim has a generous spirit of caring towards other people and this really comes out when he is working with Pronto clients. Tim is known as a mentor within our company to other people.
Tim has become a major part of our Monrovia location during tax season and is looking forward to continuing the Frye family tradition of providing professional, affordable income tax preparation while building lasting relationships with clients and having a good time in the process.
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Ingrid Ceballos
Tax Preparer
Ingrid is a rising star tax and insurance professionals working out of our West LA office location. Email Address: ingrid@pronto4tax.com

Jim Gustavson
Jim has been working at Pronto part-time during tax season for upwards of 20 years.
Holding down a full-time job as an engineer in his hometown Orange County, Jim works during the peak times of tax season and has always been a solid contributor.
Whenever he is called upon to do tax returns, he does them fast and the does them right, and that’s just how we like it here at Pronto Income Tax.
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Imelda Ledesma
When you deal with Imelda, you are dealing with someone who is first of all incredibly conscientious and caring, she is an unusual combination of street-smarts, book-smarts, and kindness to people.
She has an incredibly diverse skill set and is one of those people who can figure out how to do just about anything she sets her mind to.
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Imelda is also a certified massage therapist who specializes in therapeutic massage for people with injuries or chronic pain–feel free to insert your own joke here about how that’s a good fit to work in a tax office because taxes can cause injuries and are a chronic pain! 🙂
Imelda is a multi-talented individual whose skills and experience create so much value for Pronto Tax clients, especially our self-employed and freelancer clients who benefit from her expertise with regard to self-employed tax deductions.
Imelda is further distinguished by her amazing budgeting and personal spending skills and she often shares budgeting tips with clients during the tax preparation experience.
Imelda holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from Cal-State Long Beach in Business Administration: Finance, Real Estate, and Law.
Guess who can be the beneficiary of all Imelda’s hard work and study? YOU, our valued client. Imelda is living proof of what “start-up mentality” is all about: she is versatile, hard-working, and she just flat-out gets the job done.
A truly impressive lady and a fantastic member our team!

Cindy Lockie
Cynthia Lockie, often called “Cindy,” has been a contributing team member at Pronto for 26 years.
Cindy works with Pronto part-time during tax season because she also works with Aflac, the insurance company. To schedule a personal tax preparation appointment with Cindy or to obtain her schedule for the week, please call our Monrovia office directly. Cindy always has a loyal following of Pronto Clients who appreciate her ways and return year after year.
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Clients enjoy Cindy’s friendly, conversational style and she is also admirably thorough, committing very few errors and always seeking to make sure everything is correct before a tax return goes out. When you do your taxes with Cynthia Lockie, you can feel secure knowing that she will get it right and make sure you don’t have any problems on your tax return.
Prior to joining the tax preparation business, Cynthia worked as a human resources manager.
Cynthia holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Management.
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Lilia Peña
Lilia Peña joined the staff of Pronto Income Tax in 2009 and made an immediate positive impact and has continued on the upswing ever since.
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A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, Lilia has added a lot to our East L.A. office, teaming up with Miguel Perez to offer Spanish-speaking clients great service at a great price.
Lilia’s professionalism is outstanding and we are excited to see her growth as a tax preparer.
Lily has learned from the best and looks forward to continuing her path of getting better every year and building excellent long-term relationships with clients.
We are continuing to expect great things from the East L.A. office with Lilia as part of the team.
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Mariela Ramos
Mariela is an experienced and extremely sharp tax professional working out of our Monrovia office location. Email Address: mar@pronto4tax.com

Nancy Gonzalez
Nancy is the newest addition to the formidable Monrovia Team. Always an adept problem-solver, Nancy is known within the office as a great teammate who does a lot of the behind the scenes work that creates a smooth experience for our valued clients.
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As she continues to work in Monrovia with the veterans of the tax business such as Jesse, Bertha, and Cindy Lockie, you can bet your bottom dollar that Nancy will continue to grow her skills and knowledge. Best of all, Nancy is committed to using her skills and knowledge for the benefit of Pronto Clients.
We are very lucky to have Nancy as part of our 2016 Pronto Tax Team!
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Karen Gonzalez
As our fearless and amazingly patient graphic designer, Karen has been an instrumental part of bringing Pronto’s image into the modern era.
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In addition to her graphic design skills, she’s also a wizard with translating our tax school training materials into Spanish.
Karen has been a key team member for numerous years now and is someone that we always count on to come through in the clutch.
What our Clients are saying
If your looking for a fast and reliable place to do your taxes this place is it. I was in and out in less then an hour. The women who helped me was friendly and professional and the price was very reasonable.
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