Michigan · Bookkeeping Services
Michigan bookkeeping services — clean books, same bookkeeper, every month.
Monthly bookkeeping, cleanup, and catch-up for Michigan businesses — every account reconciled, the city income tax reviewed by work location (Detroit 2.4%/1.2%, Grand Rapids and Saginaw 1.5%/0.75%), the 6% Corporate Income Tax and the flow-through entity election kept ready, the flat 6% sales tax sub-reconciled with no local add-on, and CPA-ready statements delivered monthly by a named Certified ProAdvisor in your own QuickBooks file. Fixed-fee, all 83 counties.
Accounting, cleanup, advisory — we match the right expert to your books.
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The short version.
Michigan bookkeeping services from TechBrot keep your books clean, current, and reconciled — every bank, credit-card, and merchant account categorized, the city income tax reviewed by work location (Detroit, Grand Rapids, and more), Michigan’s flat 6% sales tax sub-reconciled with no local add-on, the 6% Corporate Income Tax and the flow-through entity election kept ready, 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 83 Michigan counties, from metro Detroit and the West Michigan corridor to Warren, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Flint, Kalamazoo, and Troy.
Reviewed by the Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor team at TechBrot Inc., an independent firm — not affiliated with Intuit Inc. Michigan references (the flat 4.25% individual income tax confirmed for the 2026 tax year; the city income tax levied by 24 cities under the City Income Tax Act, withheld by work location for nonresidents — Detroit 2.4%/1.2%, Grand Rapids and Saginaw 1.5%/0.75%, Highland Park 2%/1%, and the rest at the 1%/0.5% base, with Detroit administered by the Michigan Department of Treasury and Flint joining in 2027; the reciprocity with Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin (Form MI-W4; state wage income only — the city tax still applies); the 6% Corporate Income Tax on C-corporations in place of any gross-receipts tax, with the elective flow-through entity tax at 4.25% (Form 5772); and the flat 6% sales and use tax with no local add-on) reflect rules current as of the review date and are reviewed periodically; specific non-Detroit city rates are framed qualitatively. TechBrot does not file Michigan returns, the Corporate Income Tax, the individual income tax, the city income-tax filings, the sales-tax return, or the FTE (Form 5772) return.
Michigan bookkeeping services, in five questions.
What are Michigan bookkeeping services?
Michigan bookkeeping services are the ongoing recording, reconciling, and reporting of a Michigan business’s finances — bank and card reconciliation, a clean chart of accounts, AR/AP tracking, a review of the city income tax by work location (Detroit, Grand Rapids, and the other City Income Tax Act cities) and IL/IN/KY/MN/OH/WI reciprocity, 6% Corporate Income Tax and flow-through entity readiness, flat 6% sales-tax sub-reconciliation with no local add-on, 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 Michigan?
Ongoing monthly bookkeeping starts at $400/mo, set by transaction volume, number of accounts and entities, employee count, the number of cities you withhold for, whether you owe the 6% Corporate Income Tax or elect the flow-through entity tax, and your sales-tax 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 Michigan businesses need bookkeeping first (clean, current, reconciled books) and a CPA second (filing, tax strategy, the flow-through entity 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, wrong-city tax withholding, misclassified owner compensation, untracked CIT apportionment, and a single sales-tax setup that missed multi-state nexus — 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 Michigan business actually runs — in one city, with hybrid staff crossing into Detroit’s predominant-place-of-employment line, with cross-border IL/IN/KY/MN/OH/WI staff, or weighing the flow-through entity 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 Michigan business — with the city income-tax liability tracking by work-location city (Detroit, Grand Rapids, and more), a sales-tax liability account at the flat 6% statewide rate with no local add-on, 6% Corporate Income Tax apportionment visibility, and flow-through-entity-ready distributive-share detail where it applies — so your reports are meaningful and tax prep is painless.
City-tax & sales-tax review
Michigan’s flat 4.25% income tax and flat 6% sales tax are the easy part. Underneath them, 24 cities levy a city income tax under the City Income Tax Act, withheld by where the work is performed — Detroit at 2.4%/1.2%, Grand Rapids and Saginaw at 1.5%/0.75%, Highland Park at 2%/1%, and the rest at the 1%/0.5% base (we confirm a non-Detroit city’s current rate before withholding) — with no school-district layer and no 20-day rule. Reciprocity with IL/IN/KY/MN/OH/WI (Form MI-W4) covers state wages only — the city tax still applies. Sales tax is a flat 6% statewide with no local add-on. We review the city-withholding configuration and sub-reconcile the sales-tax liability so it ties to the books. You or your CPA file with the Michigan Department of Treasury or the city.
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 — 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 city withholding reconciled by work location, the flat 6% sales tax tracked, the 6% Corporate Income Tax apportionment measured, and the flow-through entity detail kept ready where it applies — for faster, cheaper, audit-ready filing, with us coordinating directly.
Why Michigan businesses keep their books with us.
No fabricated outcomes — just how the engagement is built. These are the things Michigan 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.
83 counties
Served remotely across all 83 Michigan counties — from metro Detroit and the West Michigan corridor to Warren, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Flint, Kalamazoo, and Troy — 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
- City income-tax review by work location (Detroit, Grand Rapids, and more)
- IL/IN/KY/MN/OH/WI reciprocity (Form MI-W4) tracking
- 6% Corporate Income Tax apportionment & FTE-readiness tracking
- Flat 6% sales-tax sub-reconciliation with no local add-on
- QuickBooks management — Online (default) & Desktop
- Year-end handoff to your CPA
Your CPA
- Files your Michigan & federal income-tax returns
- Files the Corporate Income Tax & the individual income tax
- Files the city income-tax filings & the sales-tax return
- Represents you before the Michigan Department of Treasury or a city
- Formal tax planning, opinions & the flow-through entity (Form 5772) election
- We coordinate directly — bookkeeper vs accountant →
Four steps to clean books.
Every Michigan 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 Michigan situation — volume, accounts, number of entities, which cities you withhold for, whether the predominant-place-of-employment rule or IL/IN/KY/MN/OH/WI reciprocity applies to your staff, whether you owe the 6% CIT or should weigh the flow-through entity election, your sales-tax footprint, 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 city tax withheld for the wrong city, misclassified owner compensation, or untracked CIT apportionment — 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 city income tax reviewed by work location, the flat 6% sales tax sub-reconciled, the CIT and FTE 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, that a hybrid employee just shifted their predominant place of employment into Detroit — or that a Form MI-W4 just changed which state you withhold for — that your C-corp’s apportioned 6% Corporate Income Tax just moved, or that your pass-through should weigh the flow-through entity election at 4.25% this year. Clean books are the foundation — judgment is the value.
Once your Michigan 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 Michigan businesses remotely across all 83 counties — Detroit, Grand Rapids, Warren, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Flint, Kalamazoo, and Troy. Pricing reflects TechBrot’s Michigan engagement ranges; Michigan references — the flat 4.25% individual income tax confirmed for the 2026 tax year, the city income tax levied by 24 cities under the City Income Tax Act and withheld by work location for nonresidents (Detroit 2.4%/1.2%, Grand Rapids and Saginaw 1.5%/0.75%, Highland Park 2%/1%, and the rest at the 1%/0.5% statutory base, with Detroit administered by the Michigan Department of Treasury and Flint joining in 2027), the reciprocity with Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin (Form MI-W4; state wage income only — the city tax still applies), the 6% Corporate Income Tax on C-corporations with the elective flow-through entity tax at 4.25% (Form 5772), and the flat 6% sales and use tax with no local add-on — reflect rules current as of the date below and are reviewed periodically against the Michigan Department of Treasury and its City Tax administration; specific non-Detroit city rates are never quoted as a fixed percentage and are confirmed against the city. TechBrot provides bookkeeping and QuickBooks work and coordinates with your CPA, EA, the Michigan Department of Treasury, and the city; we do not file Michigan returns, the Corporate Income Tax, the individual income tax, the city income-tax filings, the sales-tax return, or the FTE (Form 5772) return, 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 city income-tax filings, the sales-tax return & the flow-through entity (Form 5772) return coordinated with your CPA/EA, the Michigan Dept of Treasury, and the city
Independence
Independent Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor firm · Not affiliated with Intuit Inc. · Not a registered agent
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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.
Michigan bookkeeping services questions.
What do Michigan bookkeeping services actually include?
How much do bookkeeping services cost in Michigan?
Do I need a bookkeeper or an accountant for my Michigan business?
Can you clean up my books before starting monthly service?
How do you handle the Michigan city income tax and the CIT in the books?
Will the same person handle my books every month?
How do we start Michigan bookkeeping services?
Ready for Michigan 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 Michigan returns, the Corporate Income Tax, the individual income tax, the city income-tax filings, or the sales-tax return; coordinates with your CPA.