New York City · All Five Boroughs · NYC Metro
New York City bookkeeping — the 8.875% sales tax, the 4% UBT, and the Commercial Rent Tax.
QuickBooks ProAdvisor bookkeeping for New York City businesses — across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. NYC’s 8.875% sales tax, the 4% Unincorporated Business Tax, and the Commercial Rent Tax built into how your books are kept. A senior bookkeeper on your file, and every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor before it reaches you, with the books kept CPA-ready for your CPA to file.
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.
Bookkeeping & advisory · All five NYC boroughs · Fixed-fee · written scope within 3 business days
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.
Intuit QuickBooks Certification Level 2 and QuickBooks Workforce Certification, held by TechBrot’s senior reviewer (verification on request) · TechBrot, Inc. · Delaware corporation · est. 2023
New York City bookkeeping from TechBrot serves all five boroughs remotely, in your own QuickBooks file, for $500–$2,500+/mo. What sets the city apart is the tax layer each close tracks: the 8.875% combined sales tax, the 4% Unincorporated Business Tax and, for Manhattan tenants south of 96th Street, the Commercial Rent Tax.
Why New York City books are different.
No U.S. city stacks taxes on a small business the way New York City does — and that, not the software, is what makes NYC bookkeeping its own discipline.
A Manhattan consulting partnership can face federal tax, New York State tax, NYC personal income tax, and the 4% Unincorporated Business Tax on the same dollar — a layering no other city imposes. A SoHo retailer collects 8.875% sales tax while watching whether their lease crosses the $250,000 Commercial Rent Tax threshold. A Brooklyn restaurant reconciles high-volume POS deposits against that same sales-tax rate. A Queens contractor juggles job costing across boroughs. The bookkeeping has to hold all of it.
That’s why generic, software-only bookkeeping struggles here. When your books don’t track the UBT base correctly, you find out via a notice months later. When sales tax isn’t reconciled, the quarterly return drifts. When a lease crosses a CRT threshold and no one’s watching, it’s a surprise liability. Your senior bookkeeper stays on your file and knows these are the things that matter in this city — and builds them into the monthly close, not the year-end scramble, with every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor before it reaches you.
The result: books that reflect how a New York City business actually runs, reconciled every month, and handed to your CPA CPA-ready — so filing the UBT, the sales tax, and the income returns is fast and accurate.
New York City areas we serve.
New York City’s tax stack, at a glance.
Combined sales tax — the highest rate in New York State (4% state + 4.5% city + 0.375% MTA/MCTD), the same across all five boroughs. Tracked and reconciled in QuickBooks for an accurate quarterly return.
Unincorporated Business Tax on sole proprietors, partnerships & LLCs doing business in NYC — applies once gross income tops $95,000; a credit can fully offset it when UBT owed is $3,400 or less (partial up to $5,400). Filed on NYC-202/204 by your CPA.
Effective Commercial Rent Tax (6% on 65% of base rent) for Manhattan tenants south of 96th St paying $250K+ rent. Small-business credit may exempt under $5M income / $500K rent. Does not apply outside Manhattan.
Industry-specific bookkeeping for NYC businesses.
- Restaurants — POS deposits reconciled against the 8.875% rate, tipped-employee payroll, food vs. alcohol sales tax
- Real Estate — investors, brokerages, and property managers — multi-entity ledgers, trust accounting, CRT awareness
- Law Firms — IOLTA trust accounting in a separate QuickBooks ledger; partnership books structured for the UBT
- Healthcare — medical, dental, and specialty practices — payer reconciliation and multi-provider payroll
- Nonprofits — CHAR500-ready workpapers, functional expense allocation, and grant revenue recognition
- Construction — contractors and trades — job costing across boroughs, WIP schedules, retainage, prevailing-wage payroll
Complete bookkeeping, NYC-aware.
Monthly bookkeeping
Cleanup & catch-up
QuickBooks management
UBT & sales-tax-ready books
Automation handles the data entry. We handle the judgment.
In a city that taxes the same dollar four ways, the value isn’t in categorizing a transaction — it’s in knowing your UBT base is climbing, your lease is nearing the CRT threshold, or your margins are thinning. That judgment is what your senior bookkeeper brings, working in your own QuickBooks file with every close reviewed against TechBrot’s written close standard, and what fractional-CFO advisory extends once the books are clean.
Checked against the NYC Department of Finance and the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.
New York City bookkeeping questions.
Do you have a bookkeeper for my New York City business?
What NYC-specific taxes affect my bookkeeping?
How much does a NYC bookkeeper cost?
Which boroughs do you serve?
Do I owe NYC Unincorporated Business Tax (UBT)?
Can you clean up a messy NYC QuickBooks file?
Do you work with NYC restaurants, agencies, and professional services?
How do we get started in NYC?
New York services, delivered remotely.
Each engagement below is written for New York’s own rules and delivered inside your own QuickBooks file. The New York page has the full picture.
- Bookkeeping services
- Monthly bookkeeping
- Cleanup & catch-up bookkeeping
- QuickBooks cleanup
- QuickBooks setup
- QuickBooks accountant
- New York pricing
Other New York city pages: Albany · Bronx · Brooklyn · Buffalo · Manhattan · Queens · Rochester · Staten Island · Syracuse · Yonkers · all New York cities.
Searching for a QuickBooks ProAdvisor near me in New York City? TechBrot works remotely, inside your own QuickBooks file, so distance does not change the work.
By industry: Saas · Not sure where your file stands? Start with the free QuickBooks file review · moving off Desktop? QuickBooks Desktop to Online migration · state-by-state tax quirks.
Do I need a bookkeeper based in my state?
No. QuickBooks Online work happens in your own file, so it does not depend on where the bookkeeper sits. TechBrot works remotely and has no local office. What matters is that the books follow your state’s sales-tax, payroll and entity rules, and your CPA or EA files the returns.
NYC businesses start here
Ready for a NYC bookkeeper who knows the city’s tax stack?
What happens after you call.
1. We talk for up to 30 minutes. You tell us where the books stand; we ask the questions that decide the scope. No charge.
2. We look at the file if we need to. You add us as an accountant user in your own QuickBooks file, and you can remove us at any time. If the file cannot be priced without working inside it, we say so and propose the paid diagnostic, whose fee is credited in full against the cleanup.
3. You get a fixed fee in writing. What we will fix, what you will receive and one fixed fee. Nothing starts until you accept it.
We reply within one business day. Written fixed-fee scope within 3 business days of your call. No hourly billing.