Business Returns — S-Corp (Form 1120-S)
S-Corporation owners need a return that ties to the books and gets every K-1 right, because those K-1s drive each shareholder's personal return. Form 1120-S is prepared and e-filed, the split between your payroll wages and your distributions gets reviewed, and anything likely to draw questions is flagged before it goes out. You'll understand what you're signing.
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Business Returns — C-Corp (Form 1120)
A C-Corporation files its own return and pays its own tax, which makes the details matter. Form 1120 is prepared from reconciled books with the schedules that come with it, and you get a plain explanation of what the corporation owes and why. If the structure still suits your business, good. If it no longer does, you'll hear that too.
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Business Returns — Partnership / LLC (Form 1065)
Multi-member LLCs and partnerships file Form 1065 and issue a K-1 to every partner. The return is prepared and e-filed, income and losses are allocated the way your operating agreement says, and K-1s go out early enough that nobody's personal return gets stuck waiting on the business.
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Sole Proprietor / Single-Member LLC (Schedule C)
If you work for yourself, your business lives on Schedule C of your personal return. Barbers, landscapers, plumbers, contractors and freelancers all land here. Every expense you're entitled to gets claimed, self-employment tax is figured correctly, and your reported income lines up with the 1099s the IRS already has on file.
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Personal / Individual Returns (Form 1040)
W-2 employees, families and business owners all file a 1040. Yours is prepared and e-filed with every form you received accounted for, and with the credits and deductions that fit your situation. You'll know your refund or balance due before anything is submitted.
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Tax Planning & Strategy
The cheapest time to lower a tax bill is before December 31, not after. Your numbers get reviewed during the year, the likely bill gets projected, and the decisions that move it get talked through: how you pay yourself, when to buy equipment, whether your entity still fits and how much to set aside. You head into filing season knowing the number.
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Quarterly Estimated Tax Payments
If no employer withholds tax from your income, the IRS expects payments four times a year. Each estimate is calculated from your real numbers, you get the amounts and due dates ahead of time, and the figures are adjusted as the year changes, so April doesn't arrive with a balance due plus an underpayment penalty.
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Prior Year Unfiled Returns
Missing a year or two, or more, is more common than most people think, and it's fixable. Your income records get gathered, what's missing gets rebuilt, and each unfiled return is prepared and filed in order. Then you get a clear picture of what's owed, if anything, and what comes next. The sooner it starts, the less time penalties and interest have to grow.
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Amended Tax Returns
Found a missing 1099, a dependent who wasn't claimed or a deduction that got left off? The original return is reviewed, the amendment is prepared (Form 1040-X for individuals, or the matching amended business return) and filed with a clear explanation of what changed and why.
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