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 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 your TechBrot team, with every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor in your own QuickBooks file. Fixed-fee, all 15 counties.
Accounting, cleanup, advisory — delivered by TechBrot, in your own QuickBooks file.
Arizona rule: TPT filing frequency follows estimated annual combined TPT liability (annual under $2,000, quarterly $2,000–$8,000, monthly over $8,000), due the 20th after the period ends; each close ties the TPT liability to that cycle. Source: Arizona Department of Revenue.
What you can check before you sign
- Fixed fee, written first
- Your own QuickBooks file
- No hourly billing
If your file needs our paid diagnostic first, its fee is credited in full against the cleanup. Either way, you get a fixed fee in writing before any work starts.
The short version.
Arizona bookkeeping services from TechBrot keep your books reconciled every month in your own QuickBooks file, for a fixed fee of $500–$2,500+/mo. The close sub-reconciles the Transaction Privilege Tax by business classification (5.6% state plus county and city), tracks the flat 2.5% income tax and hands your CPA monthly statements. Behind? Cleanup comes first.
They took something that felt overwhelming to me as a first-year business owner and made it simple.
What stood out the most was TechBrot Inc’s attention to detail.
Complete monthly bookkeeping, not a partial service.
Every engagement is scoped to your business and delivered in your own QuickBooks file by your TechBrot team.
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.
Books prepared by your senior bookkeeper and reviewed against TechBrot’s written close standard, a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work starts, and the same bookkeeper on your file month after month. No fabricated outcomes — just how the engagement is built. How we work
- Checked before delivery
- Books reviewed before delivery — 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.
- Your TechBrot team
- Your senior bookkeeper is assigned to your file, and every close is reviewed against TechBrot’s written close standard.
- 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
What an Arizona monthly close has to capture.
A monthly close is only useful if it produces what Arizona will actually ask for. These four are what the close carries here, so the filings come out of the books rather than being rebuilt around them.
TPT by classification, on the seller
The close splits revenue by TPT classification so the return is a report rather than a reconstruction.
Prime-contracting revenue, separated
Contractor closes carry the 65% base as its own line, reconciled monthly.
The entity tax accrued, not deferred
2.5% individual, 4.9% corporate, or the 2.5% PTE election — whichever applies, accrued in the period it arose.
Employee residence, checked
Withholding exemptions are re-checked as part of the payroll reconciliation, not at year end.
Figures maintained against Arizona’s own published sources. The national method is on monthly bookkeeping ; the Arizona picture is on the Arizona page .
Four steps to clean books.
Every Arizona engagement follows the same rhythm — books accurate first, monthly cadence second, advisory third.
- Step 1
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.
- Step 2
Written scope
A fixed-fee proposal within 3 business days — cleanup, monthly bookkeeping, or both — with the price in writing before any work starts.
- Step 3
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 senior bookkeeper gets the file accurate and reconciled to a CPA-ready standard first.
- Step 4
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
Checked against the Arizona Department of Revenue and its Transaction Privilege Tax rate table.
Your TechBrot team.
Every engagement runs on three roles: a client advisor who scopes it and stays your point of contact, a senior bookkeeper who prepares your setup and monthly close in your software, and a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who reviews every close before it reaches you. A U.S.-based bookkeeper is available on request; we can share their public directory profile with you.
Specialists when your books need them.
Senior bookkeepers who specialize in rental portfolios and Xero, and specialist partner practices for trust accounting for law firms and CFO advisory. We bring the right one onto your engagement when your business calls for it, under the same standards and review.
Around Arizona.
Arizona QuickBooks ProAdvisor & bookkeeping
The state page: services, industries, cities and the Arizona tax terms in one place.Bookkeeping services, nationally
The national engagement this page is the Arizona version of — same scope, same written fixed fee.Also in Arizona
Not sure where your file stands? Start with the free QuickBooks file review · how Arizona compares: state-by-state tax quirks.
Arizona bookkeeping services questions.
What do Arizona bookkeeping services actually include?
Monthly bookkeeping for an Arizona business includes categorizing and reconciling every bank, credit-card, and merchant account; maintaining a clean chart of accounts; sub-reconciling the Transaction Privilege Tax 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); tracking PTE readiness and state-only withholding on Arizona-source wages (the 60-day rule and the CA/IN/OR/VA exemption); producing a monthly profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement; and preparing year-end books for your CPA. TechBrot delivers this fixed-fee, with a senior bookkeeper assigned to your file, and every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor before it reaches you.
How much do bookkeeping services cost in Arizona?
Ongoing monthly bookkeeping starts at $500/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 your books are behind or messy, a one-time bookkeeping cleanup or catch-up (bookkeeping cleanup from $1,200, catch-up from $2,000) comes first. You get the scope and the fixed price in writing before any work starts.
Do I need a bookkeeper or an accountant for my Arizona business?
Most Arizona businesses need bookkeeping first — clean, current, reconciled books — and an accountant or CPA second, for filing, tax strategy, and the PTE election. TechBrot provides the bookkeeping (and QuickBooks work) and coordinates with your CPA, who files. If you’re not sure which you need, that’s exactly what the discovery call sorts out.
Can you clean up my books before starting monthly service?
Yes — that’s the standard path. We scope and complete a one-time cleanup or catch-up to get your books accurate and reconciled to a CPA-ready standard — including separating entities where they’ve been commingled in one file, fixing a wrong TPT classification or a single rate that missed the city and county layers, correcting a full-receipts contractor setup that never applied the prime-contracting 65% base, and correcting multi-state withholding that wrongly assumed an exemption — then roll directly into monthly bookkeeping so they stay that way. You’re never left with a half-fixed file.
How do you handle the Arizona Transaction Privilege Tax and prime contracting in the books?
Arizona’s income tax is a flat 2.5%, so the operational complexity lives in the TPT — which is not a sales tax but a tax on the seller’s privilege of doing business, owed by the vendor and levied by business classification. The state rate is 5.6%, but counties and cities add their own layers (most city TPT reported through the ADOR centralized portal, though each city sets its own rate), so the combined rate varies by classification and location — we configure QuickBooks to charge the correct combined rate and sub-reconcile the TPT liability monthly so it ties to the books (we confirm the current combined rate against the Department of Revenue rate table before charging). For construction, the prime-contracting classification taxes 65% of gross receipts — the other 35% is a materials deduction, and the prime contractor, not the subs, owes the tax (MRRA work is taxed differently) — so we set contractor files up for the 65% base. We prepare the numbers; you or your CPA file the TPT return with the Arizona Department of Revenue.
How do we start Arizona bookkeeping services?
Start with a free discovery call, or call (877) 751-5575. We review your current books and your situation — which TPT classifications you fall under, whether prime contracting applies, where your multi-state withholding runs, whether the PTE election fits — determine whether you need cleanup, monthly service, or both, and send a written fixed-fee proposal within 3 business days. Work starts on the date in your written scope.
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Tell us what’s wrong with the books. We’ll tell you whether cleanup, catch-up or monthly bookkeeping fits.
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