Accountant for LLC Alternative The price waits on the facts
A quote before anyone names how the company is taxed is a guess with a dollar shape and no dollar of truth.
Why the fee cannot come first
One return is not three returns. A disregarded company on a personal return is a different year of work from an S election with wages, a company return, and a share on the owner's return. A partnership with several owners is different again. Until someone says which of those you are, a price is theater.
We also will not quote from a form number alone. Two companies can file the same family of forms and need different months of repair behind them. The last closed month matters as much as the election.
July and August can run hot enough that the week feels shorter than the calendar. Every owner knows a stretch when the shop is miserable and the books still wait. A fee named in that heat, before anyone can say how the company is taxed, is still a guess.
What changes the amount of work
A year that already ties to the bank is lighter than a year that lives in the bank feed and nowhere else. An election letter in the file is lighter than a hunt for one. Wages already running on a provider are lighter than a company that has been paying people by transfer.
None of that is a menu with invented prices. It is the reason we ask before we quote. The engagement, when there is one, is written down with a scope and a fee. A task that was not named in the engagement letter is priced on its own, and only then begun.
A free call does not create the engagement. A 30-minute call is a conversation. Work starts when both sides sign. When the honest read is that an engagement can wait, the call ends on that sentence.
What we will not sell you
We will not sell a signed opinion we cannot sign. We will not sell representation at a hearing. We will not sell payday processing. Those three are the expensive misunderstandings, and they are refused in writing on the disclosures page.
We will also not sell urgency. October matters because the year is still open. It does not matter because a clock on this website is counting down. There is no clock.
If you want a number, send the letter and the last closed month. The number you get back will belong to that scope, not to a stranger's company. Send the letter first. After the letter names the return, the fee follows that scope.
Ask about the work
Name the election and the last month that tied. A fee conversation can follow.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.