Tax Preparation & Filing
Business and individual returns, federal and state, in all fifty states — including the filings nobody has picked up yet.
A 30-minute consultation is $150, credited against your first engagement if you go ahead with us.
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One Return. Every State You Touch.
A return stops being one return the moment a business crosses a state line. It becomes a federal return, a home-state return, and one more for every state where you have people, property or sales — each with its own thresholds, its own forms, and its own view of what the federal number should have been.
Most of the work is deciding which of those obligations actually exist. We do that first, and in writing, before anything is filed.
What We File
Business returns
Forms 1120-S, 1065 and 1120, and the state returns that follow from them. Extensions when an extension is the right answer, and a filed return when it is not.
Individual returns
Form 1040 with Schedule C, Schedule E, and the K-1s from entities you own — including the nonresident returns that come with working, owning property or selling in more than one state.
Multi-state filing
Where a filing obligation exists, where it does not, and where the state does not follow the federal treatment. Most of the surprises in a return live here rather than on the federal form.
Prior year returns
Returns that were not filed, and returns filed on a position we would not have taken. We will tell you plainly what can still be fixed and what cannot.
Tax notices
The letter from the IRS or a state, what it is actually asking for, and the response that answers it.
Sales tax
Where a registration is required, the registrations themselves, and the filings that follow.
The State Answer Is a Different Answer
Then there is the part that has nothing to do with the federal return. States do not agree with each other, and they do not agree with the IRS. Economic nexus is the clearest case: New Jersey looks for $100,000 in receipts or 200 transactions, and either one triggers it. New York looks for more than $500,000 and more than 100 sales — you need both.
Crossing one state's threshold tells you nothing about the next state's. Many states also decouple from federal depreciation; New Jersey still works from a section 179 definition frozen at 31 December 2002 and caps it at $25,000.
Before You Send Us Anything
Send three things:
We will tell you what is actually due, what your last preparer treated differently than we would, and where a filing obligation exists that nobody has picked up.