Business returns that agree with your books, your K-1s and your personal return.
Single-member LLCs, partnerships, S-corporations, C-corporations, trusts and nonprofits. Filed on time, with the owner’s personal return prepared alongside it so nothing contradicts anything else.
Situations we handle every week.
Sole proprietors and single-member LLCs
Schedule C inside your personal return, with the expense review, the home office, the vehicle and the qualified business income deduction actually optimised rather than defaulted.
Partnerships and multi-member LLCs
Form 1065 with capital accounts maintained properly, guaranteed payments handled correctly, and K-1s in partners’ hands early enough to be useful.
S-corporations
Form 1120-S with basis and accumulated adjustments tracked year over year, and a reasonable-compensation position we can actually defend if anyone asks.
C-corps, trusts and nonprofits
Form 1120 with the book-to-tax reconciliation done, Form 1041 for estates and trusts, and the Form 990 series including the public support test.
What the fee covers.
Everything below is part of the flat price. Nothing on this list is an upsell you discover later, and if something does not apply to you it simply comes off the quote.
- Federal business return and one state return, e-filed
- Schedule K-1 for every owner, prepared and distributed
- Depreciation schedules built, maintained and carried forward
- Section 179 and bonus depreciation elections modelled, not guessed
- Basis, capital accounts and accumulated adjustments tracked year to year
- Book-to-tax reconciliation so your financial statements and return agree
- The owner’s personal return coordinated with the business return
- Next year’s estimated payments calculated and scheduled
- A review call with the owners before anything is filed
- Free extension filing, with a payment estimate so the extension is safe
The K-1 is a deadline for your partners, not just for you
A late Form 1065 or 1120-S does not only cost the entity a penalty — it strands every owner, because none of them can file until the K-1 arrives. That penalty is charged per partner or shareholder, per month, which is how a two-person partnership turns a forgotten March deadline into a four-figure problem by summer.
We work backwards from the date the K-1 needs to be in someone’s hands, not forwards from when the books happen to be ready. If your records are not going to make it, you hear that in February with a plan attached, not on March 14th.
Where small-business returns actually go wrong
It is almost never the arithmetic. In the returns we take over from other preparers, the recurring problems are the same handful:
Basis nobody tracked. S-corporation and partnership losses are only deductible to the extent of basis. If nobody has maintained it, the deduction claimed may not have been allowed — and the day the business is sold, the gain calculation is unsupportable.
Reasonable compensation set by folklore. The “sixty-forty rule” is not in the Internal Revenue Code. Wages need to be defensible against what the work is actually worth, and the number interacts with the qualified business income deduction and retirement contributions in ways that make the lowest wage frequently the wrong answer.
Depreciation that stopped being a schedule and became a habit. Assets disposed of years ago still on the books, elections made without modelling, and bonus depreciation taken in a low-income year when it was worth far less than it would have been later.
Books and return that disagree. When the tax return does not tie to the financial statements, the first person to notice is usually a lender or a buyer, at the worst possible moment.
One firm for the entity and the owner
An S-corporation return and its shareholder’s personal return are one problem, not two. The K-1, the basis, the payroll, the health insurance reported on the W-2, the estimated payments and the qualified business income deduction all connect. Split across two firms, the connections are where things get lost.
We prepare both and reconcile them against each other before either is filed. If you also use us for bookkeeping, the return is built from books we maintained ourselves — which is why bookkeeping clients take 15% off the business return. There is genuinely less work to do.
Flat fees, published before you ask.
These are the real numbers. Your written quote confirms them for your situation before any work begins, and published prices are honoured for 30 days from August 10, 2026.
Sole Proprietor / Single-Member LLC
Schedule C filed inside your personal return.
- Schedule C and Schedule SE
- Section 199A qualified business income deduction
- Depreciation and Section 179 elections modelled
- Home office and vehicle
- Federal return plus one state
Partnership / Multi-Member LLC
Form 1065.
- Form 1065 and all schedules
- K-1s for up to two partners
- Capital account maintenance
- Guaranteed payments and special allocations
- Federal return plus one state
S-Corporation
Form 1120-S.
- Form 1120-S and all schedules
- K-1s for up to two shareholders
- Basis and accumulated adjustments tracked
- Reasonable compensation reviewed
- Federal return plus one state
C-Corporation
Form 1120.
- Form 1120 and all schedules
- Book-to-tax reconciliation (Schedule M-1 or M-3)
- Depreciation and net operating loss tracking
- Federal return plus one state
Estate or Trust
Form 1041.
- Form 1041 and all schedules
- K-1s for up to two beneficiaries
- Distributable net income calculation
- Federal return plus one state
Nonprofit
Form 990 or 990-EZ. Form 990-N is $150.
- Form 990 series return
- Functional expense allocation
- Schedule A public support test
- Governance and disclosure schedules
Flat fee per return, covering the federal return, one state return, e-filing, and Schedule K-1s for up to two owners. Additional state business returns are $145 each and additional K-1s are $65 each; both appear on your written quote before you commit.
Three steps to a price you can rely on.
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You receive a fixed price and a document list by email, usually within a few hours on a business day. If your situation turns out to be simpler than it looked, the price goes down, not up.
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About business tax preparation.
My books are a mess. Do I need to fix them before you can start?
No — that is work we do. Catch-up and clean-up bookkeeping is priced at $245 per month of backlog, with a three-month minimum, quoted as a fixed total before we begin so you know the whole cost upfront. In practice it is often faster and cheaper than a business owner trying to reconstruct it themselves.
Can you handle a first-year business?
Yes, and the first year is the one most worth getting right. Start-up cost elections, the accounting method, depreciation elections and whether an S-corporation election makes sense are all decided once and then live with you for years.
What if I have partners in different states?
That is normal and we handle it. State-by-state apportionment, non-resident withholding and composite return elections are all part of the engagement. Additional state business returns are $145 each and appear on your quote before you commit.
Do you file the state franchise or annual report too?
State income and franchise tax returns are included in the return fee for the first state. Secretary of State annual reports and registered-agent renewals are administrative filings rather than tax returns — we will remind you when they are due and can file them with you, but they are not automatically part of the return engagement.
Can you help me decide whether to elect S-corporation status?
Yes, and we will give you a straight answer including the cases where it costs more than it saves. The entity election analysis is $495 and models the real net benefit after payroll costs, the extra return, state fees and unemployment insurance. If the answer is no, we tell you no.
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