Julio Gonzalez

Mr. Julio P. Gonzalez founded the Gonzalez Family Office and is the CEO and Founder of Engineered Tax Services, Inc. (ETS). ETS is the country’s largest specialty tax engineering firm which specializes in the preservation of wealth and United States’ job creation through IRS engineering-based services to include research and development manufacturing tax credit and grant studies, energy tax incentives studies, cost segregation deprecation studies for buildings, Opportunity Zone studies, real estate state and local incentive studies and alternative tax optimization studies.

Mr. Gonzalez started ETS in 2001 to bring specialized engineering tax studies to mainstream America, which have historically only available to the Fortune 500 and public companies through then the Big 8 National Accounting Firms. ETS has 26 offices nationally and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida.

In addition to ETS, Mr. Gonzalez started several other family operational companies including his family office, Gonzalez Family Office (GFO), Calle Gato Ocho (CGO), and Envisioned Family Office (EFO) Gonzalez Family Office manages the Gonzalez family capital by investing primarily in real estate, private equity, and venture capital. CGO owns and operates direct real estate investments in multi-family housing and office/mixed-use real estate for the Gonzalez family.

Over 20 years later, ETS has been extremely successful in delivering these winning tax solutions to the American middle class, becoming the leading specialty tax practice in the United States. In 2020, ETS established the largest specialty tax and consultative firm to the CPA community nationwide by acquiring The Growth Partnership, a leading advisory group to the CPA community (which also produces The Rosenberg Survey, the benchmark survey of U.S. mid-sized accounting firms) and ABLE CRM, a company that customizes Customer Relationship Management systems for CPA firms so CPAs can make the best use of limited time.

In 2021, ETS acquired Inside Public Accounting, a widely respected research organization devoted to the CPA community, which produces the leading U.S. survey of top-tier accounting firms. In 2022, ETS embarked on yet another venture—the creation of a national accounting program for CPAs known as Engineered Advisory Accelerator. The Advisory Accelerator was created for CPAs who want to offer a full range of advisory services outside their personal expertise to their clients.

In 2023 ETS added Grant Services to its expansive suite of tax credit and incentive programs through the acquisition of Washington-based J.E. Salazar & Associates.

Mr. Gonzalez is in Washington D.C. weekly to work with the administration, Congress and Senate to advise on tax reform and is the go-to tax expert representing many national organizations and associations. He is a regular public speaker on a national level regarding tax reform and tax sophistication for wealth preservation.