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Cathy Perka

Cathy Perka, CPA, RPA

2951 Marina Bay Drive
Suite 130-288
League City, TX 77573
Tel: (713) 299-6034
cathy.perka@5500tax.com

Central States Served: AR AZ IL IA KS LA MN MO MS ND NE NM OK SD TX WI

Cathy Perka has been practicing public accounting since 1990, and has specialized in employee benefits since 1998. She has extensive experience working with complex Form 5500 filings for qualified and welfare plan filing requirements, including plan mergers, changes in plan sponsors, and worker’s compensation. Her experience also includes Form 5330 excise tax returns for plan prohibited transactions, and assisting plan sponsors with determining employee benefit filing requirements. Cathy is currently located near Houston, TX.

Prior to co-founding 5500Tax Group, Cathy was a Manager with Ernst & Young’s Tax practice in Houston, Texas, where she exclusively managed the Gulf Coast and Southwest Areas of the country.

Throughout her career, Cathy has gained extensive experience in tax return preparation and review. She has worked researching tax issues and been involved with partnership, S-corporation, individual, trust, and gift tax return compliance. Cathy now specializes in employee benefits tax.

Cathy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. She is a Certified Public Accountant in North Carolina and Texas. Cathy holds the Retirement Plans Associate (RPA) designation within the Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) program.

W Wang-L&W Infoserve Co.

In June 2022, we received IRS notices with huge penalties (~$200K) as they didn’t receive F5500 – Annual Report of Employee Benefit Plan for 2019 and 2020 for our S Corporation.  We immediately started working with Amy Boyd from 5500 Tax Group.  Amy answered our questions with great patience, provided clear guidance and took appropriate actions on communicating with IRS.  With a lot of time and effort, she helped us resolve this issue that gave us so much stress.  We are grateful for her assistance and highly recommend her services.  She is professional, efficient, and friendly.

A Cox-Wabtec

Wabtec has worked with Ann Myers of the 5500Tax Group, Inc. for the past 15 years.  She manages all of the details for our 5500 preparation.  She prepares the 5500s for our Pension Plan, Savings Plan, and various Health and Welfare plans.  She also completes the PCORI filings and Summary Annual Reports.  All is done efficiently, effectively, and reasonably priced.  Ann coordinates with our auditors, record keepers, and our ERISA attorneys to gather all required information and get any answers required.  Definitely recommend!

M Fair-USI Insurance Services

Our team has worked with Ann Myers and the 5500 Tax Group for many years. Ann makes the whole 5500 process as painless as possible and personally engages with each client. We have continued to use Ann for the “personal” touch and level of details that Ann brings to her work. Our team has 100% confidence in Ann executing on filings, details and deadline. Ann brings a positive attitude, years of experience and her expertise to every engagement. Our client and team enjoy working with Ann and USI would absolutely serve as a reference.

E Powell-Seubert & Associates, Inc.

Ann at 5500 Tax Group has been a great partner for the past twelve plus years.  We find the process in working with 5500 Tax Group for client Form 5500 filing requirements has been simple, efficient, and timely. Ann has been particularly helpful in guiding mutual clients through the Department of Labor Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program (DFVCP) with an easily understood step-by-step explanation for all parties involved. We look forward to working with Ann for many years to come.

S Herrle-Henderson Brothers, Inc.

Ann Myers has been a trusted advisor and our Form 5500 filing partner for well over 15 years.   As leading experts in the Employee Benefits industry with a significant number of local and national clients, we rely heavily on Ann to prepare a large number of health and welfare 5500 forms every year for our clients.   Regardless of whether she is providing guidance for a client that is filing for the first time, suggesting changes on what should be reported in a 5500 form, providing strategy to remedy a noncompliant plan, or walking an employer through the DFVCP filing process, we know our clients are receiving the best advice from one of the most knowledgeable experts in the industry.

Briones, Briones International

Amy, Thank you for years of extremely knowledge and professional guidance regarding retirement plans including the filing of form 5500.  You have made the myriad of IRS regulations and alphabet soup understandable for a civilian. I am truly grateful for your patience and never hesitating to answer dumb questions.  Any client seeking your guidance and advice will be beyond pleased with your services.