TCB Advisors is a tax and CFO firm built exclusively for aviation — aircraft owners, charter operators, FBOs, MROs, and parts businesses. We speak FAA and IRS.
Aircraft sit at the collision point of IRS rules and FAA regulations. A structure that saves taxes can create an illegal charter. A structure that satisfies the FAA can forfeit millions in depreciation.
Generalist CPAs know one side or neither. We built TCB Advisors to know both — because one of our founders spent years as the client who couldn't find a firm that did.
Dry leases, SIFL, FET, the flight department company trap — the answers only work when they satisfy both agencies at once.
From the purchase agreement to the monthly close, one firm covers the whole flight envelope.
Entity structuring, 100% bonus depreciation, state sales & use tax, and steering clear of the flight department company trap.
Learn more →Per-tail P&L, cost-per-flight-hour, cash flow, and exit-ready books for operators, FBOs, MROs, and parts businesses.
Learn more →Federal & state returns, FET filings, SIFL calculations, and defense in the IRS's corporate jet audit campaign.
Learn more →Non-citizen trusts, offshore registries, and US tax planning for Latin American owners — from the gateway city itself.
Learn more →Four kinds of clients, four different financial worlds — all inside the one industry we practice.
Whole and fractional owners protecting bonus depreciation, managing personal-use rules, and planning the exit.
See how we help →FET remittance, per-tail profitability, owner statements, and cash flow that survives 60-day broker receivables.
See how we help →Fuel and parts margin analytics, inventory and WIP accounting, and exit-ready financials in a consolidating market.
See how we help →Dealer sales-tax compliance, training-fleet economics, and fundraising-ready financials for aviation ventures.
See how we help →South Florida runs one of the densest business-aviation corridors in the country — Opa-locka, Fort Lauderdale Executive, Boca, and Palm Beach — and Miami is the hemisphere's bridge to Latin America.
Florida adds no personal income tax, MRO-friendly exemptions on parts and labor, and a fly-away rule worth planning around. We work where the rules are written in our favor — and we know exactly where they aren't.
TCB is Thelma, Chris, and Boris — a CFO who spent a career solving the problem, an advisor who proved the specialist model works, and an aviation insider who lived the problem from the client's chair.
Six years building finance functions from the inside out — clean books, real cash-flow visibility, decisions owners can trust.
Founder of Bread Counter, the specialist tax and accounting firm for online businesses — proof the specialist model wins.
Aviation insider and VP at Miami parts specialist Focused Air Group. He's sat in the client's chair — that's the difference.
The 2025 tax law restored full expensing. Here's what "acquired and placed in service" really requires.
The most common ownership structure is also an FAA violation. How dry leases keep you legal.
Boats got an $18K cap. Aircraft didn't. What Florida buyers and sellers need to plan around.
The structure you choose at purchase decides what the IRS — and the FAA — let you keep.