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The dates on this site are kept by Steven Palmieri in the role of Tax CFO, the Entrepreneur's CFO. Steven Palmieri is not a CPA. We do not call this practice a CPA firm, an accounting firm, or a firm of accountants.

We keep books, set up payroll on a provider you run, prepare the tax return, and help you decide the year while it can still change. We do not issue an audit, a review, or a compilation, and we do not sign a report that gives assurance on financial statements. If a lender or a contract asks for that signature, we say so on the first call and point that part to a firm that can sign it.

A person in Texas may prepare tax returns, offer management advice, and prepare financial statements that carry no assurance report, and that work does not require a CPA license. Assurance reports, meaning an audit, a review, or a compilation, stay with the license holders who can sign them. That is the whole line.

Payday stays with you. We can set payroll up. We do not run payday, and we do not represent a taxpayer in an examination. A notice gets the closed months beside it before anyone writes back to the office that sent it.

A monthly read on this practice waits until the months under it are closed, or the read is declined before anyone signs. Open months are finished before they are read, and that choice is named before a scope is signed.

How a page is made

Pages on this site are researched from the practice's own work and Texas sources, drafted with software assistance, and reviewed under the practice's editorial standards. If a date or a rate on one of these pages is wrong, call the footer number, name the page, and we correct it.

A figure on this site names the office that published it. We do not print a number we cannot point at. Harris County sales tax on these pages is the state 6.25 percent, the city 1 percent, and the transit 1 percent, which is 8.25 percent together, after the address is checked. The franchise report date we use is May 15. The rendition date we use is April 15, with a written request that can move it to May 15. Those dates come from the Comptroller and from the Tax Code, and a district page controls if it states its own date.

Examples on this site are shapes, not client results. No company is named. No real return is described. If a sentence is an illustration, the page says it is an illustration.

Before a page goes up we read the dates against the source, we read the limits on this page, and we take out anything that sounds like a promise of a tax result. A correction is made on the page. If you find an error, the phone in the footer is how you tell us.

Who provides the services

Services on this site are provided by Steven Palmieri, Dallas, Texas. Reach this practice at +1 844-324-7273, printed in the footer on each page of this site.

The people who close a month for an owner in this city are the people who prepare the return that year produces. There is no office to visit on these pages, and an owner does not drive in to hand over a folder. The records move, the month still closes, and the return is still prepared from those closed months.

Shipley mornings and RodeoHouston do not come with a street address on this site. The footer phone is how an owner reaches the practice, and no inbox is printed beside that number. The schema repeats only facts a reader can already see on the page.

This site is one front door of a practice that publishes several, each named for the help a visitor was looking for. Steven Palmieri and this phone number are who answers, on this site and on the other fronts of the practice. The hub is stevenpalmieri.com. That hub link is the one outbound link to the practice, and this site does not link onward to a sibling domain.

Price depends on how far behind the books are, how many entities you have, and whether payroll setup is part of the first month. We do not print an average. You hear a number for your file after we have seen the last month you trust.

The first month is usually the one that is still open. We match the bank, we name what is a sale and what is not, and we leave you with a month you can hand to the return. Later months get easier because the starting point is no longer a guess.

What the first month usually is

The first month we touch is the one you still trust least. We match the bank to the ledger, we name what is a sale and what is a transfer, and we write down the questions that are still open. We do not guess a category just to make a total look finished.

Payroll setup, when you want it, is a provider you then run. We register the accounts, we line up the filing calendar, and we leave payday with you. We watch the filings that come back. We do not sit in the middle of a payday.

A return from this practice uses months whose bank tie is already finished. By the time you sign it, the figures on it are the same figures you saw when the month was put away. Estimates for the year ahead come from those closed months, not from last year cut into four even parts.

If a notice shows up, we read it with you and we pull the records it points at. We do not invent a result. If the honest answer is that a license holder has to sign a report, we say that on the call and we stop at the line drawn above.

Owners in Houston reach us the same way an owner in any other Texas city does. The phone is the same. The engagement is in writing. The records stay yours. Nothing on this page is a promise that a bill will be lower.

A page that names a date also names the office that published the date. Harris County Appraisal District takes the rendition for property in that county. The Comptroller takes the sales tax return and the franchise report. A city page controls when a city states its own rule, and we check the address before we treat a rate as the one that applies.

The portion of The Woodlands Township that sits in northwest Harris County is outside the transit area. That is why an address is checked before anyone adds the transit percent. Fort Bend and the other counties around the city have their own rows, and we do not paste the Harris County row onto them.

We keep a written list of what the engagement includes. Catch up work gets a date and a price before it starts. Cleanup ends when the balance sheet ties to the bank and you could hand that month to a lender without us rewriting it the night before.