As a Birmingham native, National Small Business Advocate, and Birmingham-based Small Business Owner, our Founder & CEO, Talibah M. Bayles, contributes over 15 years of small business capacity building for underserved populations. She founded TMB Tax & Financial Services in 2006 in the DC Metro area while working for the Department of Justice where she worked for over 12 years. Prior to working for the Department of Justice, she worked in the U.S. Senate where she worked for three years.
In 2017, Talibah made the decision to relocate back to Birmingham as a full-time entrepreneur and she has hit the ground running. On July 23, 2020, Talibah served as a panel consultant for the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship where she provided testimony on the topic of Capital Access for Minority Small Businesses: COVID-19 Resources for an Equitable and Sustainable Recovery. On July 30, 2020, she was featured in the Birmingham Business Journal as a finalist in the Small Business category of Birmingham’s Top Chief Financial Officers for 2020. 
In the small business community, TMB Tax & Financial Services has established deep relationships with local business owners, business owners throughout the state of Alabama, and business owners across the United States. Talibah works alongside diverse groups of community stakeholders and routinely contributes small business capacity building through technical assistance, development training, and through other financial management tools.
TMB Tax & Financial Services has also provided business loan and grant packaging services that successfully resulted in approved loans. On July 2, 2020, our company was recently featured in a Medium.com blog as a part of a team with six other black women in the accounting and finance industry that collectively has obtained over $1.5 million dollars is approved CARES Act funding for minority-owned businesses.
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