Small Business Consulting & Tax Services in Ridgefield

Wes Beal, the owner of Padgett Business Services office on Main Street in Ridgefield, has been providing cost-effective, high value-added financial reporting, payroll, tax planning and business advisory services to over 150 small businesses in Northern Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess Counties in New York and Fairfield County in Connecticut since 2012. Wes draws on a previous 15 years corporate finance advisory and tax compliance experience on Wall Street with an investment bank, management consultant, and capital markets regulator. Wes also enjoyed an ex-patriot stint in Zurich Switzerland for a global private equity house. Prior to his career in corporate finance, Wes was a serial entrepreneur, founding three private businesses in heavy commercial truck sales, service and leasing.

Wes is licensed by the United States Department of the Treasury as an Enrolled Agent to represent any taxpayer in any tax matter in any office of the Internal Revenue Service or any state revenue agency in the country.

Wes earned a Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering at the University of Mississippi, and a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance at the University of Manchester in England.

Wes has been a board member of the Chamber of Commerce and an officer with the Rotary Club. He is a member of the Mason Lodge in Ridgefield. He has been very active in Lutheran church parishes serving as church council member, junior high youth group leader, evangelism committee chairman, treasurer, and education committee chairman.