No offshore hands. No unlicensed hands. Never.
Tax preparation, planning, bookkeeping, and advisory for contractors, trades, real estate owners, and small businesses across Texas. Virtual or in-office. Every return is prepared and reviewed by a licensed CPA or Enrolled Agent and signed by the firm’s principal CPA.
- Licensed CPA & IRS Enrolled Agents
- In business since 2009 · CPA firm since 2017
- Secured, generator-backed office
- Virtual or in-office
- The CPA stays in the loop
CPA-Led · Confidential by Design · Governed AI
Kevin Hemingway, CPA, MBA, EA, principal. He signs every return, and the firm works in English and Spanish. About the firm →
Ready to go? Send the documents.
You do not need a meeting or an account. Guest access on the file exchange takes last year’s return, your books, a notice, or whatever you have. We read it, tell you what the engagement looks like and where the pricing starts, and set up your portal login. It is the path we prefer.
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- Prepared by a licensed CPA or Enrolled Agent, signed by the principal CPA
- Encrypted in transit, never by email
- Secured campus, multi-factor and identity verification
- Written consent before any technology touches your return information
Not sure what to send? A few questions, one printable list, nothing transmitted.
One firm instead of three.
Compliance keeps you legal; planning keeps you profitable. Nothing falls between your bookkeeper, your payroll company, and your tax preparer, because here they are the same firm.
Bookkeeping & Accounting
Monthly closes reconciled to the bank. Clean-ups and catch-ups. Statements formatted the way a lender reads them. Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors, and we work in Xero, Wave, Manager, and Beancount too.
Bookkeeping →Financial Statements
Prepared, compiled, or reviewed under SSARS for banks, sureties, and owners. Compilation and review reports signed by the firm’s principal CPA. No audits.
Financial Statements →Tax Preparation
Individual, S-corp, partnership, and corporate returns, including multi-state filings and apportionment. If the IRS asks about it later, the same firm answers.
Tax Preparation →IRS Representation
Our CPA and Enrolled Agents deal with the IRS for you: notices, exams, and resolution. Second opinions on a prior return are welcome.
IRS Representation →Business Analysis & Forecasting
Job costing and margin by job, crew, or property. WIP-to-cash tracking, cash flow forecasts, and an owner dashboard every month.
Analysis & Forecasting →QuickBooks Migration
Moving off QuickBooks to Xero, Wave, Manager, or Beancount. Your history comes with you, and the books still tie.
QuickBooks Migration →Tax Planning
Entity structure, §179 and bonus depreciation timing, and quarterly estimates that match your actual year. The work happens before December 31, while it can still change the outcome.
Tax Planning →Entity Selection & S-Corp Analysis
An LLC is a state-law choice. How it is taxed is a federal election. We model the default against the S-corp election with your real profit, payroll, and equipment plans, and the decision gets made on dollars.
Entity & S-Corp Analysis →Business Valuation
Buying, selling, or buying out a partner. The number that decides it, built from books that tie, with the math shown.
Business Valuation →Planning, entity, or valuation decision ahead, or a bank or surety asking for statements? Start a Consult Intake
Every trade has its own tax problems. We know yours.
Since 2009 the work has stayed with owner-run businesses: the licensed trades, the builders and landlords beside them, and the fleets that run between. Each has its own tax treatment. Start with the work you do.
Trades & Construction →
Construction, HVAC, plumbing and electrical, trucking, and mobile repair. Job and crew profitability, equipment timing, and licensed-trade payroll. Our founding clientele.
Real Estate →
Landlords and rental property, long-term and short-term. Cost segregation, the passive-loss rules, and per-property books. Builders: see the construction page.
Go straight to yours: construction · HVAC · plumbing & electrical · trucking · mobile repair · rental property · agents & brokers
Checked to the source. Signed by the principal.
A licensed CPA or EA checks the figures against your source documents. If a reconciliation doesn’t tie to the penny, the work stops there. Every tax return is reviewed and signed by the principal CPA before it goes out. In Kevin’s words: “If my signature’s on it, it’s my return.”
Your banker asked for statements? Compiled and reviewed, signed by the principal CPA. For lenders →
Who sees your numbers, and who never does.
Your return information goes only to vendors who signed a written agreement with us first.
Qualified Vendors Only
Client data moves only through technology vendors we have vetted and qualified in writing, with documented security terms. Any change at a vendor triggers re-qualification.
Consent First
Where federal law requires your written consent before technology touches your return information, we get it first. In plain language, before the work begins.
Hardened Infrastructure
Our office sits inside The Westland Bunker, a secured campus with gated, staffed entry. A bank of six diesel generators and redundant internet keep us online through outages. All web traffic in and out of the office passes through a dedicated inline filter, and the portal adds Smart Lockout, multi-factor authentication, and knowledge-based authentication.
Licensed Eyes on Everything
No offshore processing pools. No unlicensed preparers. Documents move through our encrypted client portal, never as email attachments.
"We do not hand off your work to unlicensed preparers — and we do not hand it to unsupervised machines." — FIRM GOVERNANCE POLICY
Here is our complete client list. Every name is included. The full framework, from §7216 to the AICPA rules to firm practice, is written down in our confidentiality standard.
Montgomery County and well beyond.
Montgomery · Conroe · Magnolia · Willis · The Woodlands · Spring · Lake Conroe · Tomball · Huntsville · and virtual clients nationwide
What contractors and trades owners ask us.
Do I have to pay to become a client?
No. For most tax returns and bookkeeping clean-ups, the first step is sending your documents. No meeting and no account required. Owners with an entity, employees, equipment, or books that are behind usually get more out of fifteen minutes first. That intro is with Kevin Hemingway, CPA. We discuss your needs and whether the firm is a fit, and you leave with a clear scope and next steps. Neither is required to become a client, and there is no paid meeting to book first.
Should my contracting or trades business be an S-corp?
Often, yes. Once net profit clears a threshold, an S-corp election can reduce self-employment tax. The answer depends on your profit, payroll, state filings, and equipment plans. We run the analysis on your actual numbers before recommending an election. A poorly timed S-corp can cost more in payroll compliance than it saves in tax.
What is the difference between tax preparation and tax planning?
Tax preparation reports what already happened. It is filed after the year ends and works with the facts as they are. Tax planning happens during the year, while you can still change the outcome: timing equipment purchases, adjusting entity structure, setting owner pay, and managing estimated payments.
How is my information protected when you use AI?
Your data moves only through technology vendors we have vetted and qualified in writing. Where federal law requires your written consent before technology touches your return information, we get it first. Every draft is reviewed by a licensed CPA or Enrolled Agent before anything is filed or delivered. AI handles the arithmetic. It never replaces licensed review.
Do you only work with clients near Montgomery, Texas?
No. The practice has run virtual-first since 2009, with a secure portal for documents and electronic signature for anything that needs one. Most of our contractor and trades clients are spread across Texas and beyond. Multi-state filings, fleet apportionment included, are routine here.
My QuickBooks is a mess. Can you fix it?
Yes. Clean-ups and catch-ups are core work here, on QuickBooks Desktop and Online. We reconcile the books to your bank statements, fix miscoded transactions, and hand back financials formatted the way a lender or bonding company reads them. Then we keep them closed monthly so the mess does not come back.
Bring us the shoebox. Leave with a plan.
New here or already a client, there are two ways in. Virtual or in-office, your choice.
Fifteen Minutes with the Principal
Fifteen minutes with Kevin Hemingway, CPA, by video, by phone, or in person at the Montgomery office. We size up what you need, whether the firm is a fit, and what an engagement would cover. You leave with a clear scope and next steps. This consultation is for engagement evaluation and does not include tax advice, tax planning, or detailed analysis of specific tax situations.
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