Thursday, March 28, 2024

A local tax business gathers some Moss

Julie Moss joins her mother at Carolyn’s Business Services

Carolyn’s Business Services of Kasson is the quintessential small business. The tax services and accounting outfit is located in an unassuming, modest white house on the way out of town towards Dodge Center, and if you happen by during a snowy morning, you’ll find one of the business’s three employees, Frank Feaster, vigorously shoveling the sidewalks.

If the business’ owner, Carolyn Fey, realizes her hopes, her daughter, Julie Moss, will one day take the reins and run the business herself. Moss has been learning the tax and accounting ropes since joining her mother’s business in April of 2016.

“She had asked me about five years ago about taking over the business,” said Moss. “I told her I was interested in coming on board in about a year. But, Mom called back a couple months later and said ‘I need you now.’”

Moss endured the daunting task of coming to a tax and accounting business at the very height of tax season. Yet, Moss, 42, didn’t come to the position completely unequipped to deal with the situation. With a business major and finance minor from North Dakota State University earned in 1996, as well as a 20-year stint wearing various banking hats for a Fargo-based banking outfit, she understands a thing or three about financial numbers.

“When you get a qualified member of a team, your stress level goes down considerably,” said Fey. “Her organizational skills are marvelous. She came from a job where she had to be perfect, both for herself and the people she supervised.”

That’s not to say there isn’t still a learning curve to overcome. After all, Moss didn’t come to the job as a certified tax accountant, and

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