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Javier Solis

Chair, IFA Hispanic Latino Franchise Leadership Council
Javier has been involved in he tax industry since 1990. In 2000, Javier opened his first office in Brooklyn and by 2005 he had few thousands of clients by creating a marketing strategy focused in the Latino community.

In 2007 Javier founded Los Taxes Franchise as the First Latino Franchise of Tax Preparation in the Nation. “Para Nuestra Gente,” For our People, stated the company’s commitment to meet the financial needs of Hispanics individual and business taxpayers, especially in tax preparation and accounting. In March of 2019, Los Taxes Franchise and Toro Taxes, a franchise based out of the west coast, merged becoming the largest Latinx owned Franchise in nation with over 200 units representing any industry. In 2022, Toro Taxes was ranked among the 500 best franchises in the world by Entrepreneur magazine.

In 2005, Javier and other Real Estate professionals in NY started the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals - NAHREP NYC Chapter, where he served as its President. In 2007, Javier funded the NAHREP Metro DC Chapter where he served as its President for two years. Javier was also served as a member of the NAHREP National Corporate Board of Governors. He also served as the Treasurer and Executive Board member at the New York City Hispanic Clergy Association for Justice, Inc. Javier served as volunteer guest speaker to several community organizations in several states. Javier currently served on the board of the After-School Dance Fund, and he is the current President of the Maryland Hispanic Business Conference.

In 2014, the U.S. Small Business Administration honored Javier Solis with the SBA Small Businessperson of the Year. In 2018, the governor of Maryland appointed Javier to the Maryland State Board of Individual tax Preparers. In 2018, the Maryland Hispanic Chamber of Commerce awarded Los Taxes as the Small Business of the Year in the State of Maryland. Javier has received awards from: The Brooklyn Borough President; The US Senate; The US House of Representatives; Baltimore County Executive, City of Baltimore; and many other entities.

In 2019 Javier completed the Sandford University Latino Entrepreneur Initiative hosted by the Latino Business Action Network. He completed the Montgomery Leadership Program in Maryland; and in the same year he published his first Book “Tu Decides”, which became a Best Seller in Amazon. He is now working on his second book to legalize the registered mark of the book series “Tu Decides”.
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