Felix Navarro

Felix Navarro is a tax-savvy personal finance writer who believes the best refund is the one you planned for months ago. A first-gen college grad from El Paso now living in Sacramento, Felix started in a community tax clinic where he prepared returns for families juggling multiple W-2s, side-hustle 1099s, and child-care receipts stuffed into envelopes. He later moved into small-business bookkeeping, where he learned that cash discipline and good recordkeeping beat heroic end-of-March sprints every time.Felix’s writing translates tax jargon into household decisions: choosing the right withholding, quarterly estimates for freelancers, deduction hygiene, and how credits like EITC and the child tax credit interact with paychecks across the year. He shows readers the “receipts pipeline” he uses himself—capture, categorize, review—so April is a summary, not a surprise. For business owners, Felix maps out simple chart-of-accounts setups, sales-tax sanity checks, and month-end routines that take an hour and actually get done.He’s animated by fairness and clarity. You’ll find sidebars in his articles on consumer protections, audit myths, and common pitfalls with payment apps. Readers describe his tone as neighborly and exact: he’ll celebrate your first on-time quarterly payment and also tell you to stop commingling funds—kindly. Away from numbers, Felix tends a small citrus garden, plays cumbia bass lines badly but happily, and experiments with salsa recipes that require patient chopping and good music.