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From Steven Palmieri. We will name the months that still need a close, and what the return can use.

Some owners arrive with quiet months and a bank balance they do not trust. The return can look close while nobody has talked about owner pay or a slow quarter.

We match each account to the bank before we call that month finished.

One month, the books behind it, or the return that is still open.

Name the newest month the statement already matches. We start there and move forward while the older months get cleaned up.

The past is cleaned up where the bank and the books still disagree. The present month is closed while you still remember the deposits. A finished month is the one where the bank activity and the ledger already agree, and you leave with statements plus a short report you can actually read.

A provider is put in place for payroll, and you run payday yourself. The return is built from those shut months, so the figures already agree with the bank.

The payroll provider opens in your name, and payday is the part you run after that opening.

Bring the question you keep turning over. We answer in plain words.

If a letter asks for a signature we do not give, that limit is named before any work starts. The Disclosures page names that limit in one place.

Price follows the month in front of us. It moves with how many transactions land, how far behind the books are, and whether the return is in the scope. A number before we have seen a real month would be a guess, and we would rather name a figure you can use.

We name the price before you commit, and we will say when the work is not a fit. A cleanup of older months is priced on its own when those months are behind. A steady close is priced once we have seen one month that is real.

What you hold after the first month is a close both of us can stand behind, plus a short note of whatever is still unresolved. Your company return and your personal return both come from those months.

July still gets an answer after the return is filed. A choice about owner pay is easier while the year is open. The person who will still know the books next summer is the same practice that closed this month.

A sale inside the city often stacks to 8.25 percent. The state portion is 6.25 percent, the city portion is 1 percent, and the Houston METRO portion is 1 percent. Harris County leaves the sales-tax stack alone, so the extra local piece is the city row plus Houston METRO, not a county row. The same METRO row can show up in Bellaire, Humble, Katy, Missouri City, and West University Place.

Inside the Loop is the name Texans already use for the old core, and we share that map with you. A sale there often carries the city row and the METRO row, which is the part we put in the books.

Beltway 8 is a ring every Texan can place on a map, and we share that picture with you. The question we take back to the books is whether a sale out on that ring carries a different local row than one inside the Loop.

Buffalo Bayou Park runs near downtown, and we can all enjoy a walk there the way any Texan would. When we look at the skyline past that lawn, we also wonder which weekend deposits belong in the close.

We can all appreciate a Friday at the Original Ninfa's on Navigation, the place tied to the fajita. We enjoy the idea of that meal the way you do, and then we ask which of those deposits are sales.

The Astros play at Daikin Park, and we can all appreciate a home game the way any Texan does. A weekend that fills up still has to be named in the close, deposit by deposit.

Every Texan knows March, when the rodeo changes the month for hotels and restaurants. We can all appreciate the show. The close still happens, and the spike gets a name.

The business property list for Harris County usually goes to the Harris Central Appraisal District in April. Ask that district in writing and the business-property list can move from April into May. May is also when the Texas franchise report has to be filed. A federal return going out does not file either of those. We meet you by phone. You send the address of the sale, and the rows go in the books from that address.

A meeting is a phone call, and the person who answers is the same practice that will still know the books next summer. People who arrived looking for accounting firms in Houston leave knowing who keeps the books, who sets up payroll, and who prepares the return.

A note is enough when you want us to look at one month. One person still knows the books next summer, because the same practice that closed the month is the one that answers.

Payroll is placed on a provider that stays in your name, and you run payday after that. Once those months are shut, the return is built from them rather than from a spring reconstruction.

The practice is in Dallas, and the meeting is a call.

The note on this tile reaches Steven Palmieri, who closes the month and prepares the return under the Tax CFO title. The meeting is a call.

The first month is useful only when the bank and the books already tell one story.