Deziel's Tax Service has been serving taxpayers in the Minneapolis–St. Paul Twin Cities area since 1991. In addition to individual returns, we specialize in returns for people who work for themselves: small-business owners, independent contractors and consultants on any kind of contract work, retirees consulting for a former employer, artists, writers, musicians, performers and production workers, Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers, delivery drivers, salespeople, and many other independent workers.

We are familiar with the proper reporting of investment income and income or loss from rental properties. We are also experienced with the full range of credits: Earned Income Credit, Child Tax Credit, Childcare Credit, Education Credits, Adoption Credit, Residential Energy Credit, and Retirement Savings Credit.

We prepare state returns for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and North Dakota. Other states take us a bit longer. State returns are prepared alongside your federal return — we do not file state returns separately, unless a client is applying only for a Minnesota Property Tax or Rent Refund.

At Deziel's we stand behind our work and are available throughout the year to answer questions or help resolve issues with the IRS or state revenue departments. If you receive a correction notice or an audit notice, contact us right away. Most issues are resolved rather easily. If you are audited, call for Mark Deziel as soon as possible — he will go with you, and he has never charged an additional fee for attending an audit.

We assume you want to claim all of your legitimate deductions to get the biggest refund from an experienced and reliable preparer. When you come to Deziel's Tax Service, you can be confident your return is accurate and done correctly.

Staff Training

Employees of Deziel's Tax Service take part in intensive annual tax preparation training courses. All employees are registered with the IRS and hold PTINs (Preparer Tax Identification Numbers).

Our History

Nearly seventy years ago, John Weinard started doing income tax returns for clients in the back of a drug store in South Minneapolis. After acquiring experience and a very loyal clientele, Mr. Weinard established an office on 4th Street. After the construction of I-35W took out his 4th Street office, he relocated to 1922 Clinton Avenue South.

In his first year out of college, Mark Deziel trained as a preparer at a firm called Mr. Tax. While doing a co-worker's return at the laundromat next door, he learned that John Weinard was looking for help. Mark worked for John for the next 13 years.

In 1991 Mark opened Deziel's Tax Service, renting space in a law office at 2620 Nicollet Avenue South. In 1998 John Weinard joined Mark at the Nicollet office. After the Nicollet building was sold, we opened for three years in Calhoun Square — moving furniture and equipment into storage and working from home in the off season, a pattern that served us well and helped hold down operating expense. In 2002 we moved to Rosedale Center, continuing the same pattern. After seventeen successful years at Rosedale, we moved to our current permanent home: 70 County Rd C West, Suite 702, Little Canada, MN 55117.

Remembering John Weinard

John Weinard was born in August of 1916 and grew up with his family on Nicollet Island. John's father made a living selling and installing wallpaper. John often recalled how his dad would go into the caves under the Island to fix the plumbing in their family house, and how his father knew just where to go to find the right valves to shut off the water.

When John was twelve years old, he was carried off by the current of the Mississippi River and nearly drowned. Though traumatic, it did not stop him from competing in college swimming or from his favorite summer pastime: fishing.

John often recalled that his time in the CCCs (Civilian Conservation Corps) was among the best years of his life. He loved the hard work, discipline, and energy. He learned to love nature and the camaraderie of the young men his own age — and he was able to save money toward his education at the University of Minnesota. During WWII, and even for a bit afterward, John worked as a civilian at a U.S. airfield in Greenland.

He married Margaret, and they raised four children: John Jr., Susan, Bruce, and Sandy. They lived in Philadelphia for a time, then in Chicago, and finally resettled in the Minneapolis area. John built a successful career in bookkeeping and financial matters, working for Grayco and culminating as, more or less, the CFO of Horton Manufacturing Co. As a side business, John began doing tax returns professionally.

By taking a deep and genuine concern for each of his clients, John built a solidly loyal following of people from all walks of life — stock brokers, policemen, factory workers, teachers, nurses, truck drivers, barbers, janitors, construction workers, pensioners, day laborers, you name it… even a lion trainer came to rely on John to do his return. As the south Minneapolis neighborhood diversified, and as we moved out to Calhoun Square and then to Rosedale, John prepared returns for people from all over the globe — Egyptians, Oromos, Laotians, Guatemalans, Indians, Mexicans, and Tibetans would ask for John, or ask how he was doing.

On December 19, 2010, John Weinard passed away. He had been in hospice for a month prior, and all of his children were able to see him on his final day. Everyone will admit that 94 years is a good run; still, we miss him deeply, and we will for a long, long time. I will always remember how John treated each person as a person — and what that meant to each of us.

— Mark Deziel