SERVICES / BUSINESS TAX PREPARATION
Business tax preparationReturns prepared from
books, not from memory
A tax return is only as good as the records behind it. Most of the pain in tax season comes not from the filing itself but from assembling a year of financial history in three weeks under deadline.
Why tax season
is so painful
For a business with current, accurate books, preparing a return is mostly a handover. The numbers exist, they reconcile, and the work is applying the right treatment to figures that are already correct.
For everyone else it is a reconstruction project. Bank statements are gathered, transactions are categorised at speed, and decisions that should have been made deliberately during the year get made in March by whoever is holding the file. That is where errors enter, and where deductions get missed.
The second problem is that preparation is backward-looking by nature. By the time you are filing, the year is closed and the decisions that would have changed the outcome are behind you. A preparer working from a shoebox in April can only report what happened.
Entity type matters more than most owners realise. A sole proprietor, a single-member LLC, an S-Corp and a partnership are taxed differently, file different forms, and have different implications for how the owner takes money out. Businesses frequently sit in the wrong structure for years because nobody reviewed it.
And multi-state exposure is increasingly common. Selling online, hiring remotely or working across state lines can create filing obligations in states you have never visited.
What we see most often
- Returns prepared from incomplete or unreconciled records
- Deductions missed because the categorisation was wrong
- Owner compensation structured inefficiently for the entity type
- Equipment purchases not treated optimally
- State filing obligations nobody checked for
- Estimated payments guessed rather than calculated
- No conversation until the return is already being filed
Returns from $450 · Sole proprietor to C-Corp
Every entity type,
prepared properly
Prepared by credentialed US professionals, from books we can actually rely on.
Sole proprietor & LLC
Schedule C for sole proprietors and single-member LLCs, from $450, with the self-employment tax position reviewed.
Partnership & multi-member
Form 1065 with K-1s prepared for each partner, from $900, including allocation and capital account tracking.
S-Corporation
Form 1120-S from $1,000, including the reasonable compensation question that trips up most S-Corp owners.
C-Corporation
Form 1120 from $1,200, with the double-taxation position and distribution planning reviewed.
State returns
Additional state filings quoted separately, with nexus reviewed so you know where you actually have obligations.
Estimated payments
Calculated from real numbers rather than last year's figure, so quarterly payments are neither a shock nor an interest-free loan.
How filing
should work
Books closed
We start from reconciled, current books. If yours are not, cleanup happens first and we will tell you what that costs.
Review before filing
We go through the return with you before anything is submitted, including anything that looks unusual.
File and confirm
Filed electronically, with confirmation and copies of everything for your records.
Plan next year
The most useful part. What to do differently over the coming twelve months to change next year's number.
What changes when
books come first
The return gets more accurate, which matters more than it sounds. Most missed deductions are not exotic strategies — they are ordinary expenses that were categorised wrong and therefore never appeared as deductible.
The process gets shorter. Filing from clean books takes days rather than weeks, which means less of your time and considerably less of the March panic.
You stop being surprised. When bookkeeping and tax sit with the same team, we can tell you in September roughly what April looks like. That is the difference between planning and reacting.
And the conversation shifts. Instead of discussing what happened, we can discuss what to do — entity structure, compensation, equipment timing, retirement contributions. Those conversations only have value while the year is still open.
BOOK A FREE CALLEvery client gets
- Replies within 48 hours, guaranteed
- Books closed by the 15th, every month
- Flat monthly pricing, no hourly billing
- A plain-English summary with every report
- The same team every single month
- Cancel any time, files handed over cleanly
Business tax preparation questions
Returns are prepared and signed by appropriately credentialed US professionals. Preparing returns for a fee requires an active IRS PTIN, and representing you before the IRS requires a CPA, EA or attorney.
No, though it makes the process considerably smoother and cheaper. If you keep your own books or use someone else, we can work from what you provide — we will just tell you honestly if what arrives is not usable.
Then cleanup or catch-up comes first, priced separately and quoted before we start. Filing from unreliable records is not something we will do quickly to hit a deadline.
Yes. An extension gives more time to file, not more time to pay, so estimated tax is still due on the original date. We will calculate what to pay so you avoid penalties while the return is finished properly.
We can prepare returns for previous years, and it is a common request from businesses that fell behind. Filing late is generally better than not filing, and we will explain where penalties apply.
Where they are bound up with the business — an S-Corp owner's K-1, a sole proprietor's Schedule C — it usually makes sense to handle both. We will discuss it on the call.
Get next year's return
started this year
Thirty minutes, no pitch. We will look at your books and your entity structure, and tell you what would change your position before the year closes.
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