Ethan Zieja, CPA

Ethan Zieja, CPA, is the founder of Fluency Tax, an Atlanta-based tax strategy practice for profitable solopreneurs, S-Corp owners and real estate investors. He is a CPA licensed in Georgia with a federal practice nationally, and he spent the first part of his career at RSM US LLP.

He left the Big Firm world for a specific reason: at scale, the math forces accountants to become record-keepers. Volume goes up, advisory goes down, and the client ends up with a polished compliance product and zero strategy.

Fluency Tax is the inverse. He built proprietary automation for the data work, so his hours go to the strategy work that moves the number. The diagnostic isn't a sales pitch. It's him showing you, on paper, which strategies fit your business and what each one is generally worth.

Who he serves: profitable Schedule C filers weighing an S-Corp election, S-Corp owners who want their structure pressure-tested, and real estate investors from a first rental through multi-entity portfolios. Not a fit: restaurants and food service, and e-commerce or retail with inventory.