A deliberately boutique practice.

Harold Hodges brings more than three decades of experience across the federal government and nonprofit sector — including over $1 billion in federal and state funds managed — to the practice of tax. Over twenty years, he served with the United States Department of State, where he worked on complex international economic, financial, and policy matters across multiple administrations and overseas postings — including financial-leadership tours at U.S. embassies in Panama, Algeria, Paraguay, and Côte d'Ivoire.

That career — built on careful analysis, clear writing, and earning the trust of people whose decisions had real consequences — is the same discipline he now brings to his clients' returns. Tax work, at its best, is policy made personal: every line on a 1040 is the result of a rule someone wrote, and a good practitioner's job is to make the rules work for the taxpayer rather than against them.

As a federally licensed Enrolled Agent, Harold is admitted to represent taxpayers in all fifty states and before all administrative levels of the Internal Revenue Service. He founded H. Elliot Associates to deliver year-round tax work with the clarity and care that high-fee practices reserve for their largest clients — to every client.

Harold's commitment to clients is straightforward: deliver year-round work with the clarity and care typically reserved for the largest accounts of high-fee firms — and apply the same discipline to every return, every plan, and every conversation.