Arizona · Bookkeeping Services
Arizona bookkeeping services — clean books, same bookkeeper, every month.
Monthly bookkeeping, cleanup, and catch-up for Arizona businesses — every account reconciled, the Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) sub-reconciled by business classification (5.6% state plus county and city layers reported through the ADOR portal, with the prime-contracting 65% base for construction), the flat 2.5% income tax — the lowest in the country — and the elective PTE tracked, state-only withholding handled on all Arizona-source wages under the 60-day rule (with the CA/IN/OR/VA exemption), and CPA-ready statements delivered monthly by a named Certified ProAdvisor in your own QuickBooks file. Fixed-fee, all 15 counties.
Accounting, cleanup, advisory — we match the right expert to your books.
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The short version.
Arizona bookkeeping services from TechBrot keep your books clean, current, and reconciled — every bank, credit-card, and merchant account categorized, the Transaction Privilege Tax sub-reconciled by business classification (a 5.6% state rate plus county and city layers reported through the ADOR portal, with the prime-contracting 65% base for construction), the flat 2.5% income tax — the lowest in the country — and the elective PTE tracked, and CPA-ready monthly financial statements produced by a named Certified ProAdvisor on the same file. Behind or messy? A one-time cleanup or catch-up comes first, then ongoing monthly bookkeeping. Fixed-fee against a written scope (monthly from $400/mo; cleanup from $1,200). We run the books in QuickBooks Online — in your own file — and coordinate with your CPA. We’re not a CPA firm: we deliver the books; your CPA files. Served remotely across all 15 Arizona counties, from the Phoenix metro’s semiconductor and construction boom to Tucson, Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, Tempe, and Flagstaff.
Reviewed by the Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor team at TechBrot Inc., an independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc. Arizona references (the flat 2.5% individual income tax for 2026 — in place since 2023 and the lowest flat income-tax rate of any U.S. state; the flat 4.9% corporate income tax with an elective pass-through entity (PTE) tax at 2.5%; the Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) — not a sales tax but a tax on the seller’s privilege of doing business, owed by the vendor and levied by business classification, with a 5.6% state rate plus county and city layers reported through the Arizona Department of Revenue’s centralized portal, and the prime-contracting classification taxing 65% of gross receipts for construction; no local or city income tax, so withholding is state-only, with the 60-day nonresident rule and an exemption for residents of California, Indiana, Oregon, and Virginia) reflect rules current as of the review date and are reviewed periodically; specific combined city and county TPT rates are framed qualitatively. TechBrot does not file Arizona returns, the corporate income tax, the individual income tax, the Transaction Privilege Tax return, or the pass-through entity (PTE) election.
Arizona bookkeeping services, in five questions.
What are Arizona bookkeeping services?
Arizona bookkeeping services are the ongoing recording, reconciling, and reporting of an Arizona business’s finances — bank and card reconciliation, a clean chart of accounts, AR/AP tracking, Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) sub-reconciliation by business classification (a 5.6% state rate plus county and city layers via the ADOR portal, with the prime-contracting 65% base for construction), flat 2.5% income-tax and PTE readiness, state-only withholding on Arizona-source wages (no local income tax; the 60-day rule and the CA/IN/OR/VA exemption), and monthly CPA-ready statements. TechBrot delivers them fixed-fee in your own QuickBooks Online file, with a named Certified ProAdvisor on the same file every month.
What do they cost in Arizona?
Ongoing monthly bookkeeping starts at $400/mo, set by transaction volume, number of accounts and entities, employee count, the number of TPT classifications and jurisdictions you report, whether prime contracting applies, and your multi-state footprint — not by the hour. If you’re behind, a one-time cleanup or catch-up (from $1,200) comes first. All fixed-fee, priced in writing before work begins. See pricing.
Bookkeeper or accountant — which do I need?
Most Arizona businesses need bookkeeping first (clean, current, reconciled books) and a CPA second (filing, tax strategy, the PTE election). TechBrot does the bookkeeping and QuickBooks work and coordinates with your CPA, who files. Not sure which you need? That’s exactly what the discovery call sorts out. Bookkeeper vs accountant →
Can you clean up my books first?
Yes — the standard path is a one-time cleanup or catch-up to a CPA-ready standard — including untangling commingled multi-entity files, a wrong TPT classification or a single rate that missed the city and county layers, a full-receipts contractor setup that never applied the prime-contracting 65% base, and wrong multi-state withholding assumptions — then ongoing monthly service so the books never drift again.
Same bookkeeper every month?
Yes — a named Certified ProAdvisor stays on your file, not rotated, anonymous staff. Continuity is why errors get caught early and the books reflect how your Arizona business actually runs — charging TPT across multiple classifications and jurisdictions, applying the prime-contracting 65% base on construction, employing out-of-state remote staff under the 60-day rule and the CA/IN/OR/VA exemption, or weighing the PTE election.
Complete monthly bookkeeping, not a partial service.
Every engagement is scoped to your business and delivered in your own QuickBooks file by a named Certified ProAdvisor.
Transaction categorization & reconciliation
Every bank, credit-card, and merchant account categorized correctly and reconciled to statement, with accounts payable and receivable kept current — the foundation everything else depends on.
Clean chart of accounts
A chart of accounts structured for your Arizona business — with TPT liability accounts set up by business classification and jurisdiction so the correct combined rate (5.6% state plus county and city layers) ties out, the prime-contracting 65% base handled where construction applies, and PTE-ready distributive-share detail where it applies — so your reports are meaningful and tax prep is painless.
TPT & state withholding review
Arizona’s flat 2.5% income tax is the easy part. The operational work is the Transaction Privilege Tax: it’s not a sales tax but a tax on the seller’s privilege of doing business, owed by the vendor and levied by business classification — a 5.6% state rate plus county and city layers (most city TPT reported through the ADOR portal, though each city sets its own rate), with the prime-contracting classification taxing 65% of gross receipts for construction — so QuickBooks has to charge the correct combined rate by classification and location, and we sub-reconcile the TPT liability monthly so it ties to the books. On payroll, Arizona has no local income tax, so withholding is state-only — with the 60-day nonresident rule and an exemption for California, Indiana, Oregon, and Virginia residents. We review the withholding configuration so multi-state and remote staff are right. You or your CPA file the TPT return with the Arizona Department of Revenue.
Monthly financial statements
A profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement you can actually read — delivered on a predictable monthly cadence, not scrambled together at year-end — with the equity section kept clean and PTE-ready, per entity where you run more than one.
Year-end CPA handoff
Clean, documented, reconciled books delivered to your CPA at year-end — with the Transaction Privilege Tax sub-reconciled by classification and jurisdiction, the prime-contracting 65% base documented where construction applies, and the PTE detail kept ready where it applies — for faster, cheaper, audit-ready filing, with us coordinating directly.
Why Arizona businesses keep their books with us.
No fabricated outcomes — just how the engagement is built. These are the things Arizona owners tell us made the difference.
Team experience
Books reviewed by a team with decades of combined operational accounting experience — not a first-year hire learning on your file.
15 counties
Served remotely across all 15 Arizona counties — from the Phoenix metro’s semiconductor and construction boom to Tucson, Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, Tempe, and Flagstaff — in your own QuickBooks Online file.
One named bookkeeper
A named Certified ProAdvisor stays on your file every month — never rotated, anonymous staff.
Free to start
The discovery call and books review cost nothing, and you get a fixed-fee scope in writing before any work begins.
What we do — and what we don’t.
TechBrot bookkeeping
- Monthly bookkeeping, reconciliation & financial statements
- Cleanup & catch-up to a CPA-ready standard
- TPT sub-reconciliation by business classification & jurisdiction
- Prime-contracting 65% base & MRRA handling for construction
- State-only withholding review — the 60-day rule & CA/IN/OR/VA exemption
- PTE-readiness tracking & multi-state nexus footprint documented for your CPA
- QuickBooks management — Online (default) & Desktop
- Year-end handoff to your CPA
Your CPA
- Files your Arizona & federal income-tax returns
- Files the corporate income tax & the individual income tax
- Files the Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) return
- Represents you before the Arizona Department of Revenue
- Formal tax planning, opinions & the pass-through entity (PTE) election
- We coordinate directly — bookkeeper vs accountant →
Four steps to clean books.
Every Arizona engagement follows the same rhythm — books accurate first, monthly cadence second, advisory third.
Books review
A free discovery call and a look at your current books and your Arizona situation — volume, accounts, number of entities, which TPT classifications you fall under, whether prime contracting applies, where your multi-state withholding runs (the 60-day rule, the CA/IN/OR/VA exemption), whether the PTE election fits, and where things are breaking. No pitch.
Written scope
A fixed-fee proposal within 3 business days — cleanup, monthly bookkeeping, or both — with the price in writing before any work starts.
Cleanup if needed
If your books are behind or messy — or commingled across entities, with a wrong TPT classification or a single rate that missed the city and county layers, a full-receipts contractor setup that never applied the prime-contracting 65% base, or wrong multi-state withholding — your named Certified ProAdvisor gets the file accurate and reconciled to a CPA-ready standard first.
Monthly cadence
The same bookkeeper, the same file, every month — reconciled accounts, the Transaction Privilege Tax sub-reconciled by classification and jurisdiction, the prime-contracting 65% base handled where construction applies, the PTE position tracked, statements delivered, with a clean year-end handoff to your CPA.
Automation handles the data entry. We handle the judgment.
Bank feeds can import a transaction; they can’t tell you a customer is slow-paying, a margin is shrinking, which TPT classification a new revenue line falls under, that your construction work is prime contracting rather than MRRA, that a remote hire in another state changed which state you withhold for — or that your pass-through should weigh the PTE election at 2.5% this year. Clean books are the foundation — judgment is the value.
Once your Arizona books are solid, the question shifts from “are the books right?” to “what do they tell me to do next?” That’s where fractional-CFO advisory turns reconciled books into cash-flow planning and real decisions. Explore fractional CFO & advisory →
Reviewed by the TechBrot Certified ProAdvisor team.
Reviewed and maintained by the accounting team at TechBrot Inc., an independent Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and bookkeeping firm serving Arizona businesses remotely across all 15 counties — the Phoenix metro’s semiconductor and construction boom, Tucson, Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Gilbert, Tempe, and Flagstaff. Pricing reflects TechBrot’s Arizona engagement ranges; Arizona references — the flat 2.5% individual income tax for 2026 (in place since 2023 and the lowest flat income-tax rate of any U.S. state), the flat 4.9% corporate income tax with an elective pass-through entity (PTE) tax at 2.5%, the Transaction Privilege Tax (a tax on the seller’s privilege of doing business, not a sales tax, levied by business classification, with a 5.6% state rate plus county and city layers reported through the Arizona Department of Revenue’s centralized portal, and the prime-contracting classification taxing 65% of gross receipts for construction), and the absence of any local or city income tax (state-only withholding) with the 60-day nonresident rule and the exemption for California, Indiana, Oregon, and Virginia residents — reflect rules current as of the date below and are reviewed periodically against the Arizona Department of Revenue and its Transaction Privilege Tax rate table and contracting guidelines; specific combined city and county TPT rates are never quoted as a fixed percentage and are confirmed against the Department of Revenue rate table before charging. TechBrot provides bookkeeping and QuickBooks work and coordinates with your CPA, EA, and the Arizona Department of Revenue; we do not file Arizona returns, the corporate income tax, the individual income tax, the Transaction Privilege Tax return, or the pass-through entity (PTE) election, and do not represent clients before tax authorities.
Reviewer
Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor team · decades of combined operational accounting experience
Standards
Fixed-fee, written scope before work · delivered in your own QuickBooks file
Out of scope
No tax-filing or representation claims · the corporate income tax, the individual income tax, the Transaction Privilege Tax (TPT) return & the pass-through entity (PTE) election coordinated with your CPA/EA and the Arizona Dept of Revenue
Independence
Independent Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor firm · Not affiliated with Intuit Inc. · Not a registered agent
Talk to a ProAdvisor
One call tells you exactly where your books stand.
No form, no sales script. You speak with a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who has looked at files like yours — and you get a written fixed-fee scope within one business day.
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- You talk to a ProAdvisorA real Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor — not a call centre.
- We review your fileWe look at what’s actually in your QuickBooks and what it needs.
- You get a written scopeA fixed fee in writing within 3 business days. Then you decide.
Arizona bookkeeping services questions.
What do Arizona bookkeeping services actually include?
How much do bookkeeping services cost in Arizona?
Do I need a bookkeeper or an accountant for my Arizona business?
Can you clean up my books before starting monthly service?
How do you handle the Arizona Transaction Privilege Tax and prime contracting in the books?
Will the same person handle my books every month?
How do we start Arizona bookkeeping services?
Ready for Arizona bookkeeping you don’t have to think about?
Book a free books review. We’ll tell you honestly whether you need cleanup, monthly service, or both, and send a written fixed-fee quote within 3 business days. No pitch. Independent firm — does not file Arizona returns, the corporate income tax, the individual income tax, the Transaction Privilege Tax return, or the PTE election; coordinates with your CPA.