Accountant for LLC Alternative What the name is asking
The words in the address hide four jobs. Sorting them is the kindness.
The certificate is not how the company is taxed
A certificate from the state says the company exists. It does not say how the profit is taxed. That second fact is usually a letter filed with the IRS, or the absence of one. Owners lose the letter and then shop for help as if the letters after the name were enough. They are not.
We start by asking which of four lives the company is on. An LLC can be taxed as its owner, as a partnership, under an S election, or as a C corporation, and those are not the same return. If you know, say it. Saying you are not sure is a finished answer. The rest of the work waits on it, including any talk of a fee.
The front door can be open and the lights can be on, and the books underneath can still be last month. Any owner knows that feeling, a shop that looks ready while the bank has not been tied. We use that picture the way a neighbor would. The company looks open. The month under it is still unfinished, and the return will follow the month, not the lights in the window.
What people usually mean
Most owners who arrive with this phrase want three things said in plain language. A month they can read out loud. A return that matches the election. Someone who will tell them early if the job is a signature we cannot give.
A smaller group wants a price for a form they have not named. We will not play that game. The difference between one return and three is the difference between a light year and a heavy one, and it is usually already decided by a letter.
Payday is the question that gets smuggled in. The company can open its own payroll account and keep the login in its name. Payday itself is not run from this practice. The owner, or the provider the owner chose, presses that button. The month still has to show the wages after the fact.
Who you are talking with
You are talking with Steven Palmieri. The month and the return for that year stay together, under the Tax CFO title. Owners who already use the longer name say Entrepreneur's CFO. You are not passed to a rotating bench of strangers.
Sometimes the honest answer is that you need a signature this practice cannot give, or someone to stand at a hearing. Both of those get said early, with the disclosures page as the full version. A referral in the first conversation is worth more than a proposal in the third week.
If you want to know how the pages are made, and what the limits are, that writing lives on the disclosures page and nowhere else in the sales copy. Either way, the footer phone is this practice. The certificate stays on the wall. The letter decides the return.
Name how you are taxed
Say which election you think you are on, or say you are not sure.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.