About Us
Rhyne CPA & Associates, PLLC is a boutique tax advising and planning firm specializing in helping their clients reach their personal and professional financial goals through strategic tax planning in a team environment. Mary started her firm in 2019 as Mary S Rhyne, CPA and began offering bookkeeping services and tax preparation services to local businesses. The firm grew quickly during 2020 and 2021 due to the influx of remote workers to the beautiful Southeastern NC coast.
In January of 2023, Mary received her Certified Tax Coaching accreditation from the American Institute of Certified Tax Planners to serve her clients in more robust and complete way.
Rhyne CPA & Associates helps our limited number of members minimize their tax payments using year-round-tax planning services. With our membership-based approach, you pay monthly (individually priced) and enjoy a long-lasting relationship with a knowledgeable, trustworthy, and responsive tax advising team.
With continuous tax advising conversations during the year, we guide you through financial decisions so that, come tax season, we can help ensure you maximize your deductions and similar powerful strategies to get one step closer to your preferred financial future.
Meet the Team
Mary S Rhyne - CPA, CTC, Founder
Mary Rhyne, CPA, CTC has received extensive training in the field of tax planning, with over 8 years of experience as a practicing CPA and 3 years as a Certified Tax Coach, specializing in tax planning for small businesses. Her expertise is in small business accounting and tax, with a focus on tax reduction strategies. She received her BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mary Rhyne was raised in Wilmington NC where she lives along with her husband Jonathan and their 2 youngest children. She enjoys bible study and rooting on her high school and college alma maters in football and basketball when she is not in the office.
Anna Stone - Client Relations Manager
Mary S Rhyne - CPA, CTC, Founder
Mary Rhyne, CPA, CTC has received extensive training in the field of tax planning, with over 8 years of experience as a practicing CPA and 3 years as a Certified Tax Coach, specializing in tax planning for small businesses. Her expertise is in small business accounting and tax, with a focus on tax reduction strategies. She received his BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mary Rhyne was raised in Wilmington NC where she lives along with her husband Jonathan and their 2 youngest children. She enjoys bible study and rooting on her high school and college alma maters in football and basketball when she is not in the office.
Anna Stone - Practice Administrator
Sheila Hardison - Administrative Assistant
Sheila is a Wilmington native. Her father worked as a tax preparer. (She and Mary were kindergarten classmates!) She is a retired former elementary and music teacher with New Hanover County schools. Sheila is the mother of four adult children and continues to be an active music performer. She frequently plays woodwinds for the Opera House Theatre Company and Thalian Association Community Theater, and clarinet for the City Ballet Orchestra. She is also the music director at St. Stanislaus Church in nearby Castle Hayne.
See How We Can Help
Dear Friend,
I have a feeling I know why you’re reading this right now.
You need more time in your day. Running a business is extremely demanding and there just isn’t enough time in the day to keep all the plates from spinning out of control. What you need most right now is more proactive help. You need the benefit of business advising to straighten up your business finances and tax strategy. As soon as possible. In fact, yesterday would have been ideal to get our business advising expertise. Am I close?
We get it. We’ve worked with plenty of businesses who have to cobble together 9 different software programs to keep everything straight, or who just wash their hands of it all and put everything on the credit card … and then try to clean up every year after the fact. And they know that this is no way to properly monitor profit margins, cash controls, account management, tax strategy, and all of the myriad components of an effective financial system for a business. They need business advising support.
Perhaps this is your story too. Or perhaps you’ve reached a stage of development in your business that you want to pass the baton of accounting to another expert business advising team so your team can focus on what they do best: making sales and taking care of customers.
Or are you just starting your business and want to begin on the right foot?
Whatever the reason, we want you to know that our business advising team has been diligently and effectively taking care of the accounting needs of countless organizations in a wide variety of industries—discreetly and expertly handling the ongoing financial management of tax burdens, payroll, bookkeeping, and other comprehensive accounting services while providing expertise in business planning, coaching, and strategic consulting that many businesses need.
Because here’s a certain truth as it relates to taxes and your business: The State and Federal Government would love to have more of your business’s hard-earned money in their accounts. And yes, even though it’s painful, none of us begrudge paying our legal and fair share of taxes. But the problem is that regular business owners, like you, are missing out on legal and safe deductions to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed refunds every year.
It doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t have to hand more dollars over to the government than they require just because you don’t know their rules as well as they do. You don’t have to live in a constant state of anxiety over the state of your books, feeling guilty about the time you should be devoting to keeping your business profitable.
In fact, to help you find answers to your questions, I’ve compiled some resources in the last couple of years for business people like you in response to the specific tax and accounting questions I’ve received from my clients.
Click the button above to take your first step. And of course, feel free to poke around our site and discover why I’ve been called “The Most Trusted CPA in the Wilmington Area.”
Talk again soon,
Mary S. Rhyne, CPA
PS — When you fill out the form, we’ll also add you to our weekly email series on “Real World” Strategy for small business owners. Our readers enthusiastically forward these to their colleagues and peers all the time, because they’re not your standard tax and business advising tips.
PPS — Already want to come in? I don’t blame you … many people are fed up with trying to manage their financials on their own. Our schedule is very full … but if you call us at (910) 612-6520 or Email Us, we’ll give you two options for coming in right away. We will NOT make dealing with an accountant as painful as dealing with your books has already been!