Do Bookkeepers Do Taxes?

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At the end of the day, the development perspectives associated with your venture’s operations will be influenced by more than just the quality of the services and products you put out. Texas has one of the fastest-growing economies in the continental United States, and cities like Dallas and Houston have quickly transformed into veritable hubs for industrial sectors characterized by intense competitiveness.

Are you one of the more than three million businesses currently active in Texas? Is your company involved in a niche sector in which the margins for error are low, the expectations of the target clientele are high, and the profitability perspectives are tight? In that case, in order to succeed and keep up with rivals, you will need to constantly invest. This is a problem, as most likely, you don’t currently have the monetary resources for a thorough R&D enhancement campaign.

Are you trying to improve external perception about your venture’s services? To put order in your organization’s internal financial data, discover avenues for monetary optimization, and improve the health of your financial operations? Then, you will need help. And what better choice do you have than utilizing the bookkeeping and payroll offerings provided by our agency? In this current digital age, long-term financial success is often intertwined with the budgets we have available for investing in our venture’s services. It’s not a preference, but rather a requirement. Do you want to sit together with established industry names? Then, you will need to leverage our affordable tax and bookkeeping services.

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How Can Bookkeeping and Payroll Services Help?

It’s quite simple. Our team’s professional bookkeeping services can be utilized to make order in your past financial data and discover internal recordkeeping avenues that could use a well-implemented audit. Investors and banks will not touch your organization with a ten-foot pole as long as your finances are not transparent enough for a long-term mutually beneficial collaboration. What is the most detested word in the business lexicon? Risk. And in the business world, nobody wants to risk investing in the operations of an organization that may or may not face trouble with the IRS.


Do you want to use the services of a professional tax preparer and bookkeeper? Well, then you are in luck, as you ended up in the right place. Our bookkeeping and payroll services can be utilized to showcase your profitability metrics, improve your cash flow, make your outstanding debt more transparent and provide a clear view of your ongoing revenue. The thing is, external investors are not necessarily looking for operations that are free of unfavorable financial characteristics. That’s unrealistic and most external financial providers know it. Instead, what they are looking for is transparency, which is where our team can step in.

It’s All About Offering a Clear Picture of Your Business

Texas is characterized by one of the most competitive business landscapes in the continental United States, and businesses present here need to compete with thousands of other local ventures that most likely try to attract consumers from the same sphere. Our services are not magic, that’s true. However, we can help you demonstrate the overall health of your venture’s financial data and thus give you the favorable development perspectives required if you’re looking to attract investors or obtain a new business loan.

Our local services will be enough to streamline the application process for your required loans and mitigate the perceived investment risks associated with your company’s operations. How will we manage this? Well, we will start by developing accurate and true-to-life financial reports, which we will send to your CPA for in-depth verifications, and then, these cash flow statements and balance sheets could be attached to your loan applications. Likewise, by leveraging our offerings, you will showcase professionalism, which in the business world is the first step towards making your operations suitable for long-term mutually-beneficial partnerships.

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What Services Will We Provide?

How about we start with the most basic of bookkeeping offerings? Our specialization is the recordkeeping of ongoing financial data. Therefore, the bulk of our operations will revolve around cataloging and securing your income and expenses data while simultaneously searching your old records for misaligned numbers that might attract the attention of the fiscal authorities. Are you a company involved in the gas and oil sector, and in the past, were you forced to collaborate with private banking organizations that supported the growth of your operations? Then, our team could reconcile your account, investigate your internal records and ensure that your financial data matches the numbers of the institutions with whom you collaborated.

Likewise, in order to alleviate your staff’s workload and improve your SME’s development perspectives, our team will start managing your account payables and receivables, integrate your general ledger into cloud bookkeeping solutions like QuickBooks, and develop financial reports such as P&L statements, which could later be investigated by your certified public accountant. But basic bookkeeping is not all we do. Do you have internal, full-time employees? In such a case, we will also handle some of your firm’s payroll operations, investigate your staff’s statutory contributions, generate reports that can be investigated by your firm’s upper management, and collaborate with your payroll manager by keeping track of your team’s payroll history.

Can a Bookkeeper Prepare Tax Returns?

No, not really. While our team can prepare the financial records required for corporate tax returns, their actual filing can only be done by your CPA. What can we do? We can keep an accurate record of your past and current income, expenses and recurrent financial transactions, and prepare documents like balance sheets and P&L statements, which will be used when developing your tax strategy and the documents required for corporate tax filings.

However, our team cannot represent you in front of the IRS, and we do not have the legal status required to file your taxes for you. We can provide your CPA with expense receipts, payroll reports, bank statements, and copies of the general ledger. But when it comes to the filing of the forms, you will have to use the expertise of the CPA. Your certified public accountant will suggest tax credits and deductions applicable to the legal status of your business entity, prepare your federal and state tax returns, handle the correspondence between your venture and the state comptroller, and protect your organization during audits.

What documents will be involved in the tax filing? Well, if you are a C corporation, in other words, a business in which shareholders or owners are taxed separately from the company, you will be required to file a Form 1120, which will report your income, deductions, credits, and, depending on the case, gains or losses. Likewise, if your venture currently has full-time employees, the CPA will also have to file a Form 941. Not least, if your total annual revenue for 2025 is under $1.23 million, the CPA with whom you collaborate will help you file a No Tax Due Report, as you will not be subjected to the Texas franchise tax.

Why Choose Outsourced Bookkeeping and Payroll Services?

If you are a large-scale enterprise active at an international level, with an almost unlimited internal budget, then sure, creating an in-house accounting department will make sense. But labor costs are a burden for the vast majority of Texas SMEs, and more than likely, your venture is not an exception to the rule. Do you want to develop an internal team that will handle all your company’s financial recordkeeping? In that case, realistically, you should expect to pay at least $60,000 per year on a single bookkeeper, and that’s without accounting for the miscellaneous expenses associated with training and work supplies.

Using a rough estimate, creating an internal accounting team could end up being an annual investment of no less than $200,000. This is a lot, and more than likely, you do not have the budget to accommodate such wage demands. Outsourcing, however, converts these expenses into a more manageable but predictable monthly fee, which will end up being much more affordable than going for a full-scale internal bookkeeping department. With outsourced bookkeeping, you only pay for what you need and you don’t have to invest in expensive software and hardware that will be customized for your corporation’s workload.

With outsourced services, everything is already included in the monthly package you’re paying for, and the costs of this package will be assessed beforehand via a complete audit of your services. Outsourcing is a more viable option if you prioritize scalability, and it’s a way to access the expertise of industry professionals that realistically would not have otherwise been interested in collaborating with your firm via a conventional employment contract. Do you want your business to continue developing and your employees’ workload to be reduced? In that case, we are the right people for the job.

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