Bookkeeping and tax returns for Round Rock businesses

Round Rock has a heavy mix of trades, medical and dental practices, restaurants and small technology firms, and the request is nearly always one of three: the books are behind and a deadline is coming, the owner has outgrown doing it personally, or a lender or investor has asked for statements that tie out.

We take the books over, bring them up to date, and keep them current. You keep your own QuickBooks Online or Xero subscription and can see every entry we make in it.

• Monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation of every bank and card account
• Cleanup and catch-up when the books are behind
• Payroll, new hires, W-2s and contractor 1099s
• Texas franchise tax, sales tax and the federal return, prepared and filed

Texas has no personal or corporate income tax, so the state filings are what get missed. Most entities file an annual franchise tax report with the Texas Comptroller, due May 15, even in a year with nothing to pay. Businesses selling taxable goods or services collect sales tax at the 6.25% state rate plus local rates of up to 2%, and Round Rock 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 as it happens, so the filings and the financial statements agree.

Most owners here pay two people: a bookkeeper during the year and someone else to file in the spring. The handover is where the extra cost comes from, because the second person re-checks the first person's work before signing.

Best for a Round Rock business that wants the books, the payroll and the return from one team: SF Business Solutions, from $250 a month. Our team includes a licensed CPA and covers everything a small business usually hires a CPA for. We are not a CPA firm, so if a lender wants an audited statement, that is available through our professional CPA partner firms.

Our Texas business address is in Pflugerville, about ten minutes away, and it is a business address rather than a walk-in location: our team is distributed across the US and internationally, working with businesses across the United States.

In practice everything runs by video, phone and email, and nothing depends on driving anywhere. Cleanup starts at $250, and the final price depends on how far behind your books are.