Fort Lauderdale bookkeeper & QuickBooks accountant.

TechBrot provides Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor bookkeeping for Fort Lauderdale businesses — monthly bookkeeping, cleanup, and QuickBooks management by a named bookkeeper on the same file every month. Florida has no state personal income tax (C-corporations pay a 5.5% corporate income tax; pass-throughs are generally exempt) and no franchise/margin tax — so what shapes the books is Fort Lauderdale’s economy and the Florida tax stack. Fort Lauderdale is the yachting capital of the world — the marine industry (boat building and refit, brokerage, marine services, and the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show) — plus tourism, waterfront real estate, and finance. The distinctive accounting is marine brokerage and service, charter operations, and the boat sales-tax cap (Florida caps the sales tax on a boat purchase at a maximum of $18,000). The Florida stack: the 6% sales tax plus the Broward surtax (about 7%), the vessel sales/use-tax rules, the 5.5% corporate income tax on C-corps, and reemployment tax. We build awareness of all of it into your books, keep them CPA-ready, and coordinate with your CPA, who files. Fixed-fee against a written scope ($400–$2,500+/mo monthly; cleanup $1,500–$15,000+). Delivered remotely on QuickBooks Online or hosted Desktop. Independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc.; does not file Florida taxes.

Fort Lauderdale is the yachting capital of the world, and the marine industry — on top of Florida’s tax stack — is what makes its books their own discipline. Florida has no state personal income tax, though C-corporations pay a 5.5% corporate income tax.

The defining work is marine: boat dealers (inventory and floor-plan financing), yacht brokers (commission and escrow/trust accounting on high-value sales), refit and repair yards (job costing), and charter operators (charter taxability). The Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show drives a seasonal surge. The defining Florida detail is the boat sales-tax cap — the state caps the sales tax on a vessel purchase at a maximum of $18,000, with specific use-tax rules for vessels — which a non-marine bookkeeper simply doesn’t know. Tourism and waterfront real estate round it out.

The Florida tax stack still has to be right: 6% sales tax plus the Broward surtax (about 7%), the vessel sales/use-tax rules, the 5.5% corporate income tax on C-corps, reemployment tax, and the annual tangible personal property return. We put a named bookkeeper on your file who handles brokerage escrow, refit job costing, charter taxability, and the boat-tax cap cleanly — with the filings left to your CPA.

The result: books that reflect how a Fort Lauderdale business actually runs — brokerage commissions and escrow clean, refit jobs costed, charter and vessel sales tax handled with the cap applied, real-estate entities tracked — reconciled monthly and handed to your CPA CPA-ready.

On a high-value yacht sale or a refit yard, the value isn’t categorizing a transaction — it’s knowing your brokerage escrow is clean, your refit jobs are costed, the boat sales-tax cap is applied right, and your sales tax is handled. That judgment is what a named Fort Lauderdale bookkeeper brings, and what fractional-CFO advisory extends once the books are clean.