In the past, accountants did the full range of accounting tasks from the daily
inputs, to the monthly reports, to the monthly and quarterly tax filings, to
the year end taxes. Because of offering the full range of accounting services,
the accountant was able to advise and counsel the client on items that would
effect his bottom line over time. In the past several years, the accounting
tasks have been broken off such that now there are accountants for the daily
and monthly reports, tax consultants for the tax portion of accounting and
even payroll firms to do the payroll and monthly and quarterly filings. Each
of these different entities cost the businessman more money by having separate
businesses do each.
Taking a Proactive, Not Reactive Role
Once you are doing a client's accounting, adding on the tax preparation services
is easy. You will already have knowledge of their accounts, so transferring
the data to a tax preparation package will be simple. By doing the tax portion
of the accounting services you will be able to offer tax advice throughout
the year. If you client has their taxes done elsewhere, they just get advice
at the end of the year, when it may be too late to make a difference. What's
more, they often won't know HOW to implement their tax preparer's advice. Because
you know the accounts, you know how to implement your own counsel right away.
The tax planning
services you can offer throughout the year can help minimize current and
future liabilities and prevent them from paying too much in taxes. You
will help them find additional deductions they can and should take. You will
be the best person to counsel them since you know the accounts and can advise
them on future actions to make their business more profitable. When your clients
see how much taxes you save them, your additional fee to add tax services to
their account will seem quite small by comparison.
How Adding a Few More Reports Affects YOUR Bottom Line
Including the tax preparation to your menu of services offered can increase
your earnings greatly, just by adding a few additional reports to your
workload. With the various tax preparation software out there, you can do the
payroll tax filings, sales and use tax filings, property tax filings, and the
state and federal filings, all with little additional time and effort. By using
QuickBooks to do your accounting work, the numbers can automatically transfer
over to the various tax programs on the market today. If your client has a
payroll service, the payroll filings will be done by them, thus reducing the
number of filing reports you will have to do.
Offering the additional services to your clients will take you from around
$300 per month per client to around $400 per month with just a few additional
reports added to your workload. By averaging out the additional costs over
a year, the additional reports run on quarterly and yearly basis, will be seen
as cost savings to the client. You add a full 33% to the amount you collect from
each and every client and all it takes is a couple extra hours per month. And
because these are clients you already have, they will take no additional marketing
effort to find. The chart below illustrates just how much difference that adding
tax services to your accounting service can affect YOUR personal bottom line.
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