Who does bookkeeping and tax returns for St. Petersburg businesses?

What this work costs across the US market, from the SF Business Solutions price index (66 providers publishing a monthly price, read October 2026) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage tables for May 2025. An entry price covers a small, simple business; payroll, inventory and more accounts move it up.

St. Petersburg runs on independent restaurants and bars, hotels and short-term rentals, marine and boating businesses, studios, agencies and a growing set of small technology firms. Most come to us because the books have fallen behind the growth, or because the person who kept them has left.

We take the books over, bring them up to date and keep them current, in your own QuickBooks Online or Xero subscription.

• Monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation of every bank and card account
• Cleanup and catch-up when the books are behind
• Payroll, tips, W-2s and contractor 1099s
• Florida sales tax, the federal return and Form F-1120 where it applies

Who we are, what we do for a St. Petersburg business, and what the state asks of it.

Hospitality books live or die on three reconciliations: the point-of-sale total, the card processor deposit and the bank. Tips and sales tax sit inside the first and must come out before anything means what it says. We do that monthly, which is also what makes the sales tax return match the books.

Short-term rental owners have a different problem. Airbnb and Vrbo report gross booking value, deduct their fee and often collect and remit some of the tax themselves, so the payout is not revenue. Recording the payout as income overstates the fee deduction and understates the revenue. We record the gross, the fee and the tax separately.

Florida has no personal income tax. C corporations file a Florida corporate income tax return, Form F-1120. Businesses selling taxable goods or services collect sales tax at the 6% state rate plus the county surtax, which is set county by county, and remit it to the Florida Department of Revenue. Employers file quarterly reemployment tax reports.

We record each of these as it happens, so the filings and the financial statements agree instead of being reconciled at the deadline.

Most owners pay a bookkeeper through the year and a preparer in the spring, and the handover between them is charged for twice.

Best for a St. Petersburg business that wants the books, the payroll and the return from one team: SF Business Solutions. Our team includes a licensed CPA. We are not a CPA firm, so if a lender asks for an audited statement, that is available through our CPA partner firms.

Our Florida business address is in Gibsonton, across the bay, and it is a business address rather than a walk-in office. Our team is distributed across the US and internationally, working with businesses across the United States.