A small business accountant built around Texas tax rules.
Monthly bookkeeping, QuickBooks, payroll coordination, and 8.25% sales tax for Texas small businesses — your TechBrot team on your file, fixed-fee, all 254 counties.
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.
Texas rule: for 2026 and 2027 reports, an entity with annualized total revenue at or below $2,650,000 owes no franchise tax and files only its Public Information or Ownership Information Report; QuickBooks tracks total revenue so the threshold is visible before May 15. Source: Texas Comptroller, franchise tax.
Texas small business accounting from TechBrot, a bookkeeping and advisory firm, keeps your QuickBooks file reconciled every month for $500–$2,500+/mo. With no state income tax, the books carry what Texas does tax: franchise tax figures (no tax due at or below $2,650,000 in revenue for 2026 and 2027 reports), sales tax at up to 8.25%, and payroll.
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.
Three Texas facts every small business’s books must reflect.
No state income tax doesn’t mean no obligations — these three shape your chart of accounts, sales tax, and fixed assets.
No income tax — the margin tax instead
Texas has no state personal or corporate income tax, but small businesses still face the Texas Franchise (“margin”) tax through the Comptroller, with no tax due below a revenue threshold. We track the position; your CPA confirms what’s due.Sales tax — 6.25% state + local
Texas sales & use tax is 6.25% state plus up to 2% local (8.25% in most metros), via the Texas Comptroller. We configure it in QuickBooks so the return ties.Business personal property rendition
Texas funds local government with property tax, and business owners must report a rendition of their personal property — equipment, furniture, inventory — to the county appraisal district each year; from January 1, 2026 each taxing unit exempts the first $125,000 of appraised value of income-producing personal property at each location (Tax Code §11.145). We keep fixed-asset records ready; valuation stays with your CPA.The whole back office, one dedicated team.
Scoped to your business and delivered in your own QuickBooks file by your TechBrot team, with every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor.
Monthly bookkeeping & close
QuickBooks setup & cleanup
Sales tax, configured right
Franchise (margin) tax tracked
Payroll coordination
Advisory, when ready
What we do — and what we don’t.
What TechBrot does
- Keep your QuickBooks Online or Desktop file reconciled and current every month
- Build and maintain a Texas-correct chart of accounts
- Configure 8.25% sales tax by location and reconcile it
- Track the franchise (margin) tax position for your CPA
- Keep fixed-asset records ready for the business personal property rendition
- Coordinate Texas payroll and prepare CPA-ready monthly statements
What your CPA does
- File the Texas franchise (margin) tax or sales-tax returns
- File the business personal property rendition or handle valuation/protest
- Represent you before the Texas Comptroller
- Provide legal or tax advice
- Step 1
Free file review
A QuickBooks ProAdvisor reviews your QuickBooks file and your Texas situation at no cost. - Step 2
Written fixed-fee scope
Within 3 business days you get a written scope and fixed fee. No hourly billing. - Step 3
Cleanup to CPA-ready
If the file needs it, we bring it to a CPA-ready standard — sales tax corrected, accounts reconciled. - Step 4
Monthly cadence
Your senior bookkeeper keeps the file clean every month and hands CPA-ready statements to your CPA.
Automation handles the data entry. We handle the judgment.
Most Texas small businesses don’t need a full-time accountant — they need clean books, the margin tax and sales tax tracked correctly, and a named expert who knows their file. That’s exactly the gap a fixed-fee QuickBooks ProAdvisor fills.
Start with accurate books, then extend — when you’re ready — into fractional-CFO advisory, in coordination with your CPA.
Around Texas.
Texas QuickBooks ProAdvisor & bookkeeping
The state page: services, industries, cities and the Texas tax terms in one place.Small-business accountant, nationally
The national engagement this page is the Texas version of — same scope, same written fixed fee.Not sure where your file stands? Start with the free QuickBooks file review · how Texas compares: state-by-state tax quirks.
Texas small business accountant questions.
What does a Texas small business accountant do?
Keeps your books in your own QuickBooks file to a Texas standard — categorization and reconciliation, a clean chart of accounts, 8.25% sales tax configured and reconciled, the franchise (margin) tax position tracked, business personal property ready to render, payroll coordination, and CPA-ready statements every month.
What Texas taxes does a small business owe?
Texas has no state income tax, but small businesses face the franchise (margin) tax through the Comptroller (no tax due below a revenue threshold), 8.25% sales tax in most metros, and an annual business personal property rendition for property tax.
Do you work in my existing QuickBooks file?
Yes — your file, your data, in QuickBooks Online or hosted Desktop, with a senior bookkeeper assigned to your file, and every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor before it reaches you. If you need a new file set up or a migration, we handle that too.
Do you serve my city or county?
All 254 Texas counties — Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Fort Worth, El Paso and everywhere between — delivered remotely on QuickBooks. Your location changes the sales-tax rate, never the service or the ProAdvisor.
How much does it cost?
Fixed-fee against a written scope, never hourly. Monthly bookkeeping runs $500–$2,500+/mo by volume and accounts; one-time bookkeeping cleanup runs $1,200–$15,000+. Exact fee in writing within 3 business days of a free discovery call and the file information needed to quote.
Are you a CPA firm?
No — we’re a bookkeeping and advisory firm. TechBrot handles QuickBooks and bookkeeping; your Texas CPA handles filing and representation. You can use both; with your authorization, we coordinate records with your CPA.
Checked against the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.