Tax planning
Filing a return tells you what already happened. Planning is the part that changes the number. Entity choice, owner pay, and quarterly estimates, decided before the year closes.
What planning covers
Most owners we meet are paying more than they need to for one of these four reasons. We work them in order and write down what we decide.
Sole proprietor, LLC, partnership, or S-Corp. We look at your actual profit, not a rule of thumb, and tell you when a change is worth the extra filings and when it is not.
If an S-Corp fits, the next question is what you pay yourself. We set a reasonable salary you can defend and split the rest as distributions, then check it against retirement and health coverage.
No more guessing in April. We size each quarter off real books, so you set money aside on a schedule instead of finding out after the fact.
Hiring, buying equipment, taking on a partner, or having your best year yet all change the bill. We run it before you commit, so the decision is a choice rather than a surprise.
How it works
We start with a call about what the business is doing now and where you want it in a year. Then we build the plan off real numbers, walk you through it line by line, and leave you with a written summary and the dates that matter. Nothing is theoretical and nothing is a sales sequence.
Abel is an Enrolled Agent, licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS. Planning pairs well with monthly bookkeeping, since current books make the estimates worth trusting.
Published pricing
Fixed and quoted in writing before work begins. If something falls outside the agreed scope, we talk first and you decide.
Business return preparation is priced separately. An 1120-S or 1065 is $325, and the full list lives on the services and pricing page.
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Send a note and get a fixed quote back from Abel, not a proposal deck.