Your Ohio QuickBooks bookkeeper — ProAdvisor expertise, Ohio rules.

For an Ohio business, a QuickBooks ProAdvisor brings two things a general bookkeeper often can’t: verified QuickBooks expertise and fluency in Ohio’s specific rules — the municipal income tax withheld by work location across 649 cities and 199 school districts (RITA, CCA, and the 20-day rule), the Commercial Activity Tax in place of a corporate income tax, the IN/PA/MI/KY/WV reciprocity, and the county-variable sales tax. TechBrot pairs ProAdvisor-level QuickBooks work with that Ohio 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 municipal income tax, the county sales tax, and the CAT gross receipts 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.

No. TechBrot is a bookkeeping and advisory firm. We deliver bookkeeping, QuickBooks work, payroll, and advisory, and we coordinate with your CPA or EA — who files your Ohio and federal returns, the Commercial Activity Tax, the municipal and school-district income-tax filings, the sales-tax return, and the IT 4738 PTE return, and represents you before the Ohio Department of Taxation. You may need both: TechBrot runs the books, your CPA files.

Ohio layers local payroll tax on top of the state tax: 649 municipalities and 199 school districts levy income taxes, an employer generally withholds the municipal tax for the city where the work is performed (about 1% to 3%, major cities around 2.5%), the 20-day occasional-entrant rule governs when withholding begins, and RITA, CCA, and self-administered cities read it differently. Separately, Ohio has reciprocity with Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky, and West Virginia, so a qualifying resident of those states working in Ohio files Form IT 4 and is exempt from Ohio state withholding — but the municipal tax still applies where the work is performed. We build the per-city municipal tax, the school-district layer, 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 municipal income tax withheld by work location under the 20-day rule and reciprocity on Form IT 4, and tracking the 5.75% state sales tax plus the county rate. 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 municipal withholding, the school-district setup, and the CAT gross-receipts tracking — and roll straight into a monthly cadence so the file never drifts again.

Book a free Ohio 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.