Payroll Companies & Payroll Services in Rigby, ID

Jamie T Jackson, CPA is a solo certified public accounting practice in Rigby, Idaho, a short drive from Rexburg. The firm works mainly with small business owners and individuals in eastern Idaho. Payroll is one of several accounting functions it handles, alongside tax work, bookkeeping and advisory engagements. A single principal runs the practice, so clients work directly with the CPA rather than being passed between staff members.

Payroll services

The payroll offering is aimed at owners who would rather not spend hours each month calculating wages, withholding and government filings themselves. The firm presents outsourcing as a way to free that time for sales, customer service and growth. Its site describes the service in three main areas:

• Preparing and submitting payroll tax returns on the employer's behalf
• Producing detailed payroll reports for the owner's records
• Keeping the business in line with federal and state payroll rules

Payroll can be combined with financial statements, general ledger upkeep and tax preparation. This lets a business rely on one accountant who sees the full picture of its books and its employer obligations.

Related accounting and tax work

Beyond payroll, the practice prepares individual returns with electronic filing, including returns for self-employed people, and offers gift and estate tax planning. Business clients include partnerships, LLCs, C corporations and S corporations, and the firm also provides accounting for non-profit organizations. Bookkeeping work covers monthly closings, bank and credit card reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable, and journal entries. The CPA is a platinum-level member of the QuickBooks ProAdvisor program and can help companies set up and use QuickBooks.

Advisory engagements include cash flow analysis, budgets, financial projections and operations reviews. The firm also takes on outsourced CFO or controller tasks such as profitability analysis, strategic planning, support with mergers and acquisitions, and staff training. New clients can request a complimentary look back at up to three prior years of returns to find mistakes or overlooked deductions.

The firm's tax resolution services are relevant to employers with payroll tax trouble. The CPA may represent clients before the IRS and state agencies and assists with notices, audits, payment plans, liens, levies and wage garnishments.

Background and credentials

Jamie T. Jackson earned a Master of Accountancy with a tax emphasis from Brigham Young University in 1989. Jackson started out as a senior tax consultant at Ernst & Young in Phoenix.

From 1994 to 2015, Jackson held corporate tax and payroll leadership roles, serving as assistant vice president and tax director for United Health Group's Las Vegas operations and Sierra Health Services. After settling in Rigby with family in 2015, Jackson opened the current practice.

Jackson holds active CPA licenses in Idaho and Nevada and an inactive Arizona license, with more than three decades in tax and accounting. That corporate payroll background is unusual for a small-town firm.

It gives local employers access to an accountant who has overseen payroll and tax at a large organization, combined with the direct, one-on-one service of a small office.