Michigan bookkeeping services — clean books, same bookkeeper, every month.

Monthly bookkeeping for a Michigan business includes categorizing and reconciling every bank, credit-card, and merchant account; maintaining a clean chart of accounts; reviewing 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; tracking the 6% Corporate Income Tax apportionment and flow-through entity readiness; sub-reconciling the flat 6% sales tax with no local add-on; 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.

Ongoing monthly bookkeeping starts at $500/mo, set by transaction volume, number of accounts and entities, employee count, the number of cities you withhold for, whether you owe the 6% CIT or elect the flow-through entity tax, and your sales-tax 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.

Most Michigan businesses need bookkeeping first — clean, current, reconciled books — and an accountant or CPA second, for filing, tax strategy, and the flow-through entity 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.

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, correcting city tax withheld for the wrong city, fixing misclassified owner compensation, applying reciprocity for cross-border IL/IN/KY/MN/OH/WI staff, and tracking the 6% CIT apportionment that was never measured — then roll directly into monthly bookkeeping so they stay that way. You’re never left with a half-fixed file.

Michigan’s state income tax is a flat 4.25% and its sales tax a flat 6%, so the operational complexity is the local layer: 24 cities levy a city income tax under the City Income Tax Act, and an employer generally withholds the city tax for the city where the work is performed (Detroit is the highest at 2.4% resident / 1.2% nonresident; Grand Rapids and Saginaw are 1.5%/0.75%; Highland Park is 2%/1%; the rest are 1%/0.5% — we never quote a specific non-Detroit city rate and confirm it with the city before withholding). It’s far simpler than Ohio’s system — no school districts, no 20-day rule — but generic payroll still defaults everyone to one city. A reciprocal-state resident under reciprocity (Form MI-W4) can be exempt from Michigan state tax while the city tax still applies. On the business side, Michigan levies a real 6% Corporate Income Tax on C-corporations, with an elective flow-through entity tax at 4.25% for pass-throughs, so we keep the books CIT- and FTE-ready. We prepare the numbers; you or your CPA file with the Michigan Department of Treasury or the city.

Start with a free discovery call, or call (877) 751-5575. We review your current books and your situation — which cities you withhold for, whether reciprocity applies, whether you owe the 6% CIT or should weigh the flow-through entity election, your sales-tax footprint — 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.