Siniva Pota

Ms. Siniva Pota serves as the Accounting and Marketing manager at Hawaii TASS. She is a Hawaii-native and recent graduate of the University of Hawai’i at Hilo with her baccalaureate degree in Accounting and Business Administration. Upon graduation, she will sit for all 4 parts of the CPA exam. She has experience in Public Accounting as a tax specialist with emphasis on personal tax returns (1040, 1040A, 1040EZ) and state of Hawaii returns, business taxes, licensure, and start-up business applications. She also serves the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program as an Income Tax Director at a local credit union in Hilo. She actively oversees that over 200 federal and state returns are in accordance with the IRS and state of Hawai’i regulations. She manages, coaches, and trains IRS VITA Volunteers to ensure due-diligence and accuracy of tax-filing and reporting as well as provide oversight and tax-consultation to over 10 credit union professionals. She is versatile in her abilities, takes an active interest in building professional relationships engrained in trust between a variety of clients, and takes pride in herself, the organization that she represents (Hawaii TASS), and more-so, the services that she delivers to their communities’ most prized assets—the people!