Craig N. Landes

Craig N. Landes, CPA is northwest native and a 1986 graduate of the University of Washington. After several years with firms in Aberdeen and Bellevue he landed in Olympia in 1992. He gained a wide variety of experiences while helping his local firm of 12 grow to 26 and eventually merge into a national CPA firm. In 2003 he launched Landes Mertz, enabling him to refocus his practice and resume a more hands-on approach. Craig’s core services now are in income and estate tax planning for small business owners and investors. This includes many people providing services, from physicians to attorneys to engineers and more. In serving these clients, he has developed expertise in advising start-up businesses, QuickBooks accounting support, benchmarking and other business analysis services, retirement planning, and performing medical practice revenue evaluations.

Craig has been active in many professional and community organizations. He helped launch the Hands On Children’s Museum, has served on WSCPA committees, and was treasurer for the Olympia Thurston Chamber of Commerce and Westwood Baptist Church. Currently he is on the board of the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Visitor & Convention Bureau, and is president of the South Puget Sound Estate Planning Council. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants.