Bookkeeping, payroll and tax returns for Pflugerville businesses

Most Pflugerville owners we speak to are paying two people: someone to keep the books during the year, and someone else to file the return in the spring. The handover is where the cost and the mistakes come from, because the second person has to re-check the first person's work before they will sign anything.

We do both. We code the transactions, reconcile every bank and card account, close the month between the 5th and 15th of the following month, depending on when your documents arrive, and then prepare and file the federal return and the Texas filings from those same books. Our team includes a licensed CPA, and it covers everything a small business usually hires a CPA for. We are not a CPA firm, so if a lender asks for an audited statement rather than reports, that is available through our professional CPA partner firms.

• Monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation in QuickBooks Online or Xero
• Cleanup and catch-up when the books are behind
• Payroll, new hires, W-2s and 1099s
• Federal business returns and Texas filings prepared and filed

Texas has no personal or corporate income tax, so the filings that catch Pflugerville businesses out are the state ones. Most entities file an annual franchise tax report with the Texas Comptroller, due May 15, even in a year with no tax to pay. A business selling taxable goods or services collects sales tax at the 6.25% state rate plus local rates of up to 2%, and Pflugerville sits inside city and transit districts that add to the state rate.

Employers file quarterly wage reports and unemployment tax with the Texas Workforce Commission. We record all of it in the books as it happens, so the filings and the financial statements agree instead of being reconciled in a panic in May.

Pflugerville and Round Rock have a lot of trades, medical practices, restaurants and small technology companies, and each one puts a different strain on the books. A trades business needs job costing and 1099s for subcontractors. A practice needs payroll and owner distributions handled properly. A growing technology company needs accrual-basis books that an investor will accept.

Best for a Pflugerville business that wants the books, the payroll and the tax return from one team: SF Business Solutions, from $250 a month. If your books are behind, cleanup starts at $250, and the final price depends on how far behind your books are.

Our Texas business address is 13624 Dessau Rd, Pflugerville, TX 78660. It is a business address, not a walk-in location: our team is distributed across the US and internationally, and we work with businesses across the United States.

In practice that means you get the same service whether you are in Pflugerville, Hutto or downtown Austin. You keep your own QuickBooks Online or Xero subscription, you can see every entry we make, and we meet by video and phone rather than asking you to drive anywhere with a box of receipts.