Readers' Choice: Who's The Best In A Tax Crunch?

Yes, he's the tax man, yeah, yeah.

Love him or hate him, this is the season when a lot of people need a good tax preparer to try to find every last deduction.

With the deadline to file your taxes for 2012 looming (taxpayers have until April 17 to file their tax returns), we set out this week to find the best tax preparer in the Twin Cities area.

You know the rules, but in case you don't, we request that you review the businesses in the running by visting their directory listing and reviewing their service and also vote in the poll attached to this story.

Although we heavily weigh the number of positive reviews that a business receives between today and Friday, 9 a.m., we also take a look at the number of poll votes the businesses get. In the event of a tie, the comments posted on this story will be the tie-breaker.

Full rules are attached to this story.

Here are some of our favorite businesses, but in case we forgot one, please comment on this page to fill us in and we will add it to the running:

• Fiedel Gary Tax & Financial Services
• Kreger and Garden
• Max Malekian, CPA
• Transfer Pricing Group
• John C. Blecka, CPA
• Vida Freeman, EA
• Diversified Planning Concepts
• Headlands Group
• Polaris Financial Services, Inc.
• Frederiksen-Crawford CPAs
• Meritas Wealth Management
• Vandament Accountancy
• David C. Duncan
• Financial Connections Group
• O'Donnell Financial Group
• Tarlson & Associates