Business Tax
Business Tax Services in Raleigh, NC
Entity returns, multi-state filing, and proactive planning — fixed fee, quoted upfront, from the same CPA who manages your books.
One CPA, Start to Finish
The CPA who knows your books prepares your return
Most small businesses split bookkeeping and tax prep across two people who don't talk to each other. Your bookkeeper closes the books, hands them to a tax preparer in March, and you spend an hour re-explaining what happened in your business over the last twelve months. That handoff is where mistakes and missed deductions live.
At Protea, it's one CPA on both sides. The same person who reconciles your accounts and reviews your monthly close prepares your return, because they already know your entity structure, your prior-year positions, and the decisions you made along the way. No re-explaining, no handoff, no surprises in April.
What We Handle
Every return and every question that actually moves the number
S-Corp Tax Preparation
1120-S filing, reasonable compensation analysis, and the owner 1040 that goes with it.
Learn moreC-Corp Tax Preparation
Form 1120 filing and double-taxation planning for the businesses where a C-Corp is the right call.
Learn morePartnership Tax Preparation
Form 1065 filing, partner K-1s, and basis tracking for partnerships and multi-member LLCs.
Learn moreIndividual Tax Preparation
Coordinated returns for owners, plus complex individual returns for anyone else — equity comp, rental property, multiple K-1s.
Learn moreTrust & Estate Tax Preparation
Form 1041 preparation and beneficiary K-1s for trusts and estates.
Learn moreMulti-State Tax
Nexus review, registration, and apportionment for businesses operating across state lines.
Learn moreSales & Use Tax
Registration, return filing, and remittance once you know where you owe.
Learn morePTE Election & SALT Cap Strategy
North Carolina's workaround to the federal SALT deduction cap, modeled against your numbers.
Learn moreTax Planning
Structure and timing decisions made before year-end — not after.
Learn moreForm 990 & Nonprofit Returns
990, 990-EZ, and 990-PF preparation for exempt organizations.
Learn moreWho This Is For
Built for businesses with something to get right
Owner-operated businesses
You're the one making the decisions. You need a CPA who talks to you directly, not a rotating staff.
Multi-entity structures
Multiple LLCs, a holding company, related-party transactions — returns that have to be coordinated, not filed in isolation.
S-Corps
An election only pays off if the mechanics — salary, distributions, basis — are handled correctly every year.
Businesses with multi-state exposure
Employees, inventory, or sales in more than one state means more than one state's rules apply to you.
Nonprofits
501(c)(3)s and other exempt organizations with a 990 to file and a board that expects it done right.
How We Price It
Fixed fee, quoted upfront
Every tax engagement is quoted as a fixed fee before we start — never hourly. You know the number going in, and it doesn't move because a question took longer than expected. Monthly CFO and controller clients get a bundle discount on tax work, since their books are already clean when tax time comes.
What We Don't Do
Being direct about the boundaries
We don't guarantee a specific refund or a specific dollar amount of savings.Anyone who does is telling you what you want to hear, not what's true — tax outcomes depend on your actual facts, not a sales pitch.
We don't perform audits, reviews, or compilations.Protea is not an attest firm. If your lender or investor needs attested financial statements, we'll help you find a firm that provides them.
We don't generate instant tax quotes online.Entity type, states, and complexity move the number too much for an automated calculator to get right. You'll get a real, fixed-fee quote from a CPA — not a guess from a form.
Business Tax Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
What business owners actually ask before hiring us for tax work.
Get a fixed-fee tax quote
Answer a few questions about your business. You'll have a tailored, fixed-fee quote from Andrew within one business day.