Your Michigan QuickBooks bookkeeper — ProAdvisor expertise, Michigan rules.

For a Michigan business, a QuickBooks ProAdvisor brings two things a general bookkeeper often can’t: verified QuickBooks expertise and fluency in Michigan’s specific rules — the city income tax withheld by work location across 24 cities (Detroit at 2.4%/1.2%), the real 6% Corporate Income Tax that Ohio doesn’t have, the flow-through entity election, the IL/IN/KY/MN/OH/WI reciprocity, and the flat 6% sales tax with no local add-on. TechBrot pairs ProAdvisor-level QuickBooks work with that Michigan context, delivered as a fixed-fee engagement.

Each month: categorize and reconcile every bank, credit-card, and merchant account; maintain a clean chart of accounts; keep the city income tax, the flat 6% sales tax, and the CIT apportionment tracked so the returns are accurate; produce a profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement; and hand your CPA clean, year-end-ready books. The work is done by your TechBrot team, with every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor

TechBrot quotes fixed monthly fees against a written scope, not hourly. Ongoing monthly bookkeeping runs from $500/mo depending on transaction volume and accounts. One-time QuickBooks cleanup starts at $1,200, and setup at $750. You get the scope and price in writing before any work begins — no metered clock, no surprise invoices. Call (877) 751-5575 to scope it.

Michigan’s city income tax is the genuine local complexity: 24 cities levy one under the City Income Tax Act, an employer generally withholds for the city where the work is performed (Detroit at 2.4% resident / 1.2% nonresident, Grand Rapids and Saginaw at 1.5%/0.75%, most others at 1%/0.5%), and Detroit’s tax is administered by the Michigan Department of Treasury. It’s far simpler than Ohio — no school districts, no 20-day rule. Separately, Michigan has reciprocity with Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, so a qualifying resident of those states working in Michigan files Form MI-W4 and is exempt from Michigan state withholding — but the city tax still applies where the work is performed, and reciprocity doesn’t cover independent contractors or non-wage income. We build the per-city tax and the per-employee reciprocity into QuickBooks Payroll so the right amounts are withheld and the filings reconcile; you or your CPA file.

In practice the title covers two sets of work. The books: recording and reconciling transactions, producing financial statements, running payroll with the city income tax in the 24 cities that levy one and reciprocity on Form MI-W4, and tracking the flat 6% sales tax. The tax work: filing returns, making elections and giving tax advice, which is a CPA’s or EA’s role. TechBrot does the first set and coordinates with your CPA for the second.

Yes — the path is a one-time cleanup or catch-up to get the file accurate and reconciled, then ongoing monthly bookkeeping to keep it that way. We scope the cleanup first, fix it to a CPA-ready standard — including the per-city income-tax withholding, the reciprocity setup, and the CIT apportionment tracking — and roll straight into a monthly cadence so the file never drifts again.

Book a free Michigan discovery call, or call (877) 751-5575. We review your QuickBooks file and your situation, identify whether you need cleanup, monthly bookkeeping, or both, and send a written fixed-fee proposal within 3 business days. If it’s a fit, your senior bookkeeper starts on your file; if it isn’t, we’ll point you in the right direction.