Dan M Tran, EA/President

Mr. Dan Tran holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and minor in Mathematic at California State University of Fullerton, Master program in accounting & taxation at CSUF and UTA. Mr. Dan Tran holds many different credentials and licenses such as: Enrolled Agent, Texas Property casualty, life, health insurance, and financial service 6 and 63.

Mr. Dan Tran has diversified experience by working for many different corporations held many different positions; last post was with big 5 companies as Sr. Project Manager. He earned his accounting and tax knowledge thru:

• International Information Inc (III) in Culver City, CA to computerize its accounting department and to automate MRP (Manufacture Resource Planning).
• Coffman System, Inc to assist in developing EDGE, which is CRM system.
• McDonald Douglas to co-develop MRP II (second generation of Manufacture Resource Planning).
• Aetna – Healthcare claims processing system.
• Insudata in Irving TX – Improving system resources to automate data entry by developing OCR (Optical Characters Recognition) system.
• Akili Consulting.
• Arthur Andersen, Dallas TX – Business consulting in PAD (Platform/Procedure Architecture Design)
• Farmers Financial Solution, LLC – Registered Representative
• AllTax LLC
• AllTax & Associates LLC

In 1990, Mr. Dan Tran started his own business, Computer & Income Tax (C&IT); associated with Farmers Insurance and Farmers Financial Solution LLC, and then in 2001, he sold his insurance business to focus on accounting, payroll and tax services; C&IT became AllTax LLC, in Arlington, Texas. At AllTax, Dan and his employees offer business analysis and consulting expertise, including payroll, bookkeeping/Write-up and tax services, to corporations, business and individual clients.

Outside of work, Dan belongs to several different organizations that he joined not only to give back to his community, but to the world:

• He was president of the National Organization of Vietnamese American Leadership (NOVAL) for several years and helped bring the organization to the Dallas area by co-founding a DFW chapter. This organization of leaders, business owners and professionals strive to build sustainable leadership in the Vietnamese American community.
• Dan had jointed an advocacy group to advocate for human rights for Vietnamese Americans in the United States and Vietnam. The group leads Vietnam Advocacy Day every year, bringing hundreds of Vietnamese leaders and advocates to D.C. to talk to Members of Congress and leaders in the State Department about the need for human rights, democratic changes in Vietnam.
• In 2016, Dan joined a dental mission trip to Svay Pak in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Dan says the poverty in the area “hit me straight into my heart.” With a help of United Nation Officer, he worked with a Vietnamese pastor to rebuild his church and build a school for students. He has also visited Bangkok to help Vietnamese refugees, organizing a group called Refugee Youth in Bangkok (RYB) and teaching Vietnamese refugee children to use computers.
• After coming back from Cambodia and Thailand, Dan formed the ACF Foundation (www.acffoundation.org), which assists asylums and refugees in Southeast Asia in four different areas: shelters and healthcare.
• In addition to his work on the national and global stage, Dan enjoys making a difference in the lives of his clients. “I feel so good when I convince new clients to do the right thing when it comes to tax and accounting.” One of his favorite things about being an accountant and advisor is encouraging his clients to do the ethical thing, even when it may end up costing them a bit more money.