JTJONES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Shareholder - Tax Director
John Schlaudt is a shareholder and the senior tax director at JTJones PLLC, where he has served since the start of his professional career in 2010. John's passion is cultivating trust-based relationships through diligence, care, and integrity to deliver valuable solutions and peace of mind for each client's tax situation. Building on his years of experience in the public tax accounting field, he enjoys advising small businesses, hard-working individuals, and high-net-worth family groups on a variety of federal income tax matters, including real estate transactions, business sales, partnership accounting, retirement, charitable giving, S-corporations, and more.
Outside the office, John enjoys spending quality time with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three young children, staying active with church, homeschooling, and various travel adventures. In his spare time, he likes cycling, running, working outdoors, and volunteering with the disaster relief efforts of Samaritan's Purse.
John's mission in life is to be a good steward of all that his Heavenly Father has entrusted to him and to bring Him glory through faithful service and a testimony that exhibits the love of Jesus within each of life's personal and professional relationships.
John received his B.S. in Accounting & Business Finance as an honors scholar at Liberty University (2010) and is a member of the AICPA, TXCPA, and the Houston Chapter of the TXCPA.
Job Titles:
- Managing Shareholder and Founder
John Jones has spent the last 35 years of his life in public accounting. His passion as a CPA is to provide peace of mind, comfort and assurance to his clients. John enjoys the challenges of navigating the complex and everchanging universe of income tax compliance. He enjoys solving difficult problems with practical solutions and believes in keeping things simple, straightforward and efficient.
John grew up in Nacogdoches, TX and graduated from Stephen F Austin State University. During his high school and college years, he had the wonderful experience of working in and helping to manage a large local lumber yard/building supply business. This inspired John to study accounting so that he could "better understand the numbers behind the business".
John began his accounting career at Ernst & Whinney in 1987 as an auditor, which gave him a fantastic background into financial statement presentation and the interaction between the components of the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow and footnote disclosure. As his career developed, he began to focus on income tax, and has since grown and developed a passion for tax law, research, compliance and providing direction and advice to his clients.
In his personal life, John enjoys spending time with family, playing games, solving puzzles, riding motorcycles, and traveling. He is a member and past president of the Whitehall Club, which is a social group of business leaders that meet weekly at the River Oaks C.C. He is also a member/deacon at Tallowood Baptist Church and a member of the AICPA, TXCPA and Houston Chapter of TXCPA.
Job Titles:
- Shareholder - Tax
- Trustee for St Stephen 's Episcopal School
Nick works primarily with business owners, investors, and high-net worth individuals. Areas of specialty include tax matters related to family limited partnerships, trusts & estates, restricted stock compensation plans, and individuals with foreign income and financial assets. Nick is a visionary and prides himself on his ability to help clients plan for their future. He also sees himself as a teacher, with one his greatest strengths being the ability to distill the complexities of his clients' tax and financial situations to help them better understand the intricacies of their filing requirements and create a plan for meeting their tax obligations.
When outside of the office, Nick serves as a trustee for St Stephen's Episcopal School - Houston, is a member of the Montrose Center's Rising Leaders and sings in his church choir. Nick deeply values his community of family and friends. In his free time, he loves hosting game nights with his friends, cooking for his family, playing video games with his nephew, riding motorcycles with his dad, and enjoying life with his partner.
Nick received his B.B.A in Accounting from Baylor University and is a member of the AICPA, TXCPA, and the Houston Chapter of the TXCPA.