We achieved a huge milestone this year, 20 years in business.  Key Tax Solutions was created back in 2004.  At the time I had one child who was just over 12 months old.  Our business is older than our daughter.  I guess it is our middle child. 

I refer to Key Tax Solutions as our business, with my wife Ana.  We both started the business together and have worked in the business together for 20 years.  I’ve had many people over the years ask me, how do you work with your wife?  I have plenty of funny comments, the best being “I go to work to get away from my wife”.  To me, it’s the key to our success.

We originally started operating from home. In 2006, we moved into our first office at East Hills.  We took on our first employee in 2007.  It was back in 2007 that we first started attending networking events, and the business growth accelerated from there.

The changes in software over the last 20 years have been incredible.  Everything is online now, with minimal paper.  I think our office is much smaller, as we don’t need the paper storage we did 20 years ago. 

The most important aspect of being self-employed is to have the willingness to learn and know when to pivot.  Things constantly change, you need to keep up and know when to take on new challenges, recreate yourself or innovate.  It’s all part of the experience of being self-employed.  I always want to get better.  I still do after 20 years.