What CCG does

CCG (California Credits Group, LLC) is a privately held government incentives and tax credits consulting firm founded in 2002 and headquartered in Pasadena, California. The company serves clients ranging from small and mid-size businesses to Fortune 1000 corporations, helping them identify, capture, and defend federal, state, and local incentives such as the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, California Enterprise Zone hiring credits, location-based credits, and negotiated incentive packages. CCG's client base reached 10% of the Fortune 1000 by 2008 and now operates nationally across all 50 states.

CCG's core technology is IncentivePro, a proprietary platform that integrates with client HR applications and financial systems to screen job applicants for tax credit eligibility, track employee movements across locations, and apply a proprietary zone locator database covering more than 500 available credits and incentives. The platform is the technological backbone of the firm's BPO service model, which handles end-to-end incentive administration, compliance, and audit defense on behalf of clients.

CCG generates revenue through an outcome-based, success-fee model in which clients pay only when government incentives are secured, with no upfront licensing, implementation, or maintenance costs. The firm absorbs all legal, technology, project management, and research expenses, and captures a percentage of benefits realized. Its go-to-market combines direct enterprise field sales with a multi-channel partner program covering more than 70 CPA firms, professional associations, payroll providers, commercial real estate brokers, economic development groups, and HR systems integrators. CCG has no disclosed external funding, parent company, or acquisition history, and operates as a founder/management-owned LLC.

Name

CCG

Legal name

CCG, LLC

Website

https://ccg.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

CCG (California Credits Group) is a privately held Pasadena-based consulting firm that helps U.S. businesses—from SMBs to Fortune 1000 corporations—identify, capture, and defend government tax credits and incentives through its proprietary IncentivePro platform under a success-fee BPO model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Pasadena

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Success-Based Incentive Capture Fees: CCG operates on a success fee model where clients only pay when government incentives are successfully secured. No upfront licensing fees, implementation costs, operational disruptions, or maintenance expenditures. CCG absorbs all legal, technology, project management, and research expenses.
2. Percentage of Benefits Secured: CCG receives a small percentage of the financial benefits secured for clients, with a portion of fees being tax deductible. Free research services and government interface provided at no cost if no incentives are secured.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CCG is a national tax credit and government incentives consulting firm that operates a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) model to help companies identify, secure, and administer federal, state, and local incentives including hiring credits, location-based credits, and negotiated incentive packages. The firm uses its proprietary IncentivePro technology platform, which integrates with clients' HR and financial systems, to capture over 500 available credits and incentives across all 50 states. CCG charges clients only on a success-fee basis when government incentives are actually secured.

Product overview

CCG (California Credits Group) is a government incentives and tax credits consulting firm headquartered in Pasadena, California, offering a unified platform approach centered on the IncentivePro technology system. The portfolio consists of the core IncentivePro platform supplemented by multiple service modules including Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), Other Hiring Credits, Negotiated Incentives, Location Based Incentives, California Enterprise Zone services, Compliance & Administration, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Tax Controversy/Audit Defense, and Veterans Hiring Incentives. The IncentivePro platform serves as the technological foundation that integrates with clients' hiring processes and financial systems to screen applicants, track employee movements, and calculate credits. The company also maintains partner programs targeting payroll providers, CPA firms, HR systems vendors, commercial real estate brokers, and economic development groups.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• IncentivePro: Proprietary technology-driven solution developed by CCG to help clients capitalize on government incentives, managing hiring-based incentives, location-based incentives, negotiated incentives, training grants/credits, and specialty incentives.

Products and services

• IncentivePro Flagship proprietary technology platform that enables clients to capture and manage government incentives across hiring-based, location-based, negotiated, training, and specialty incentive categories. Features interactive applicant screening, proactive employee movement tracking, and a proprietary zone locator database.
• Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) Services Federal income tax credit program services for employers hiring qualified individuals from target groups, with financial benefits up to $9,000 per qualified new hire.
• Other Hiring Credits Services Services to capture government-established hiring incentives at federal and state levels, ranging from $2,400 to $9,000 per employee federally, with state benefits ranging from $1,000 to $39,000 per employee.
• Negotiated Incentives Services Services to secure discretionary incentive programs at federal, state, and local levels customized to attract or retain certain industry groups, including credits, grants, abatements, and other incentives.
• Location Based Incentives Services Services to capture incentives for companies in designated geographic areas such as empowerment zones, renewal communities, enterprise zones, and targeted revitalization areas, including hiring tax credits, investment tax credits, sales and use tax credits, property tax abatements, and training grants.
• California Enterprise Zone Services Services to capture California Enterprise Zone incentives including hiring tax credits exceeding $37,000 per qualified employee over five years, sales and use tax credits, and business expense deductions.
• Compliance & Administration Services Services to secure negotiated incentives and capture federal incentives that companies often leave unclaimed, delivered by a team of attorneys, CPAs, and project managers.
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services Full-service BPO model supporting all incentives functions with no licensing fees, implementation costs, or ongoing maintenance expenditures; clients pay only when government rewards are secured.
• Tax Controversy / Audit Defense Services Audit defense services including comprehensive audit process management, correspondence review, document assessment and correction, response to information requests, audit protest preparation, and settlement negotiation.
• Veterans Hiring Incentives Services Services to capture federal income tax credits ranging from $2,400 to $4,800 for each qualified veteran hired, plus state-sponsored credits available in 39 states with enterprise zones.
• Small & Mid-size Businesses Solutions Technology-assisted solution for businesses with 100 or fewer employees to capture hiring-related tax credits, with benefits up to $9,000 per qualified employee.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3 to 5 times more credits secured compared to previous consultants
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Morrison Community Care Group (MCCG)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2026Partnership celebrating construction delivery milestone with over 500 private bed spaces handed over across nine care home developments in Scotland. The collaboration began in 2017 and includes Greenways Care Home in Anniesland, Glasgow, providing residential, nursing, and dementia care facilities.
• World's Largest HR ApplicationscoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2010Integration partnership with world's largest HR and human resource applications enabling seamless data exchange for employee-based incentive calculations and screening processes.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Deloitte (Tax Credits & Incentives): Deloitte's Tax Credits & Incentives practice competes directly with CCG on federal and state hiring credits, R&D credits, and location-based incentives, but does so as part of a much broader tax and consulting franchise that targets the same Fortune 1000 buyer.
• KPMG (Economic Incentives): KPMG's Credits & Incentives Advisory practice addresses WOTC, state hiring credits, Enterprise Zone-style programs, and negotiated incentives for large enterprises, overlapping with CCG's service portfolio but bundled inside a Big 4 tax and audit relationship.
• Ernst & Young (EY) Incentives Advisory: EY's People Advisory Services and Tax practice include hiring credit and government incentives capture for multinationals, competing with CCG's enterprise offering while leveraging broader transformation and tax compliance relationships.
• PwC (Tax Incentives Practice): PwC delivers federal and state tax credit identification, capture, and compliance services to large corporate clients, directly overlapping with CCG's hiring and location-based incentives modules while extending into broader international tax incentives.

Direct peers

• BDO USA (Tax Credits & Incentives): BDO USA's Credits & Incentives practice serves middle-market and large enterprises with WOTC, state hiring, and location-based credit capture — a closer mid-market specialist comparable to CCG's enterprise and SMB segments.
• RSM US (Credits & Incentives): RSM US provides federal and state hiring credit, R&D credit, and cost segregation services to mid-market companies, directly overlapping with CCG's middle-market and SMB customer profile and incentives capture workflow.
• Ryan, LLC (Tax Credit & Incentive Services): Ryan is a specialist tax services firm offering credits & incentives (WOTC, state hiring, location-based) alongside its broader tax credit suite, competing head-to-head with CCG for enterprise incentives capture engagements.
• Incentax: Incentax is a specialty state and local tax (SALT) and incentives firm focused on negotiated economic development incentives for large corporate clients, competing directly with CCG's Negotiated Incentives and Compliance & Administration service lines.

Emerging players

• Avalara: Avalara provides tax compliance automation and is expanding into incentive and credit-related workflows; while broader in scope, its compliance platform competes for the same HR/payroll integrations that CCG's IncentivePro targets.
• ADP (Work Opportunity Tax Credit Screening): ADP offers WOTC screening as an add-on to its payroll and HR services, targeting the same SMB and mid-market customers CCG serves via its Small & Mid-size Businesses solution — a partial competitor embedded inside a much larger HR platform.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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