Payroll Companies & Payroll Services in Manistee, MI

Michigan Tax CPA, PLLC is a certified public accounting firm in Manistee, Michigan. Its clients include individuals, families, small businesses, trusts and estates in Manistee, Ludington, Cadillac, Traverse City and other parts of the state. Some pages describe it as a Harvey & Thompson CPA company. Payroll is one part of a wider practice that also covers tax work, bookkeeping, business advisory services and help with IRS notices.

How Payroll Works With This Firm

Buyers should know that the firm does not process payroll itself. A separate payroll partner runs the actual payroll. The CPA team handles setup, checks the results, and ties payroll into each client's books and tax filings. This suits employers who want an accountant reviewing their payroll rather than dealing with a payroll company on their own. Payroll support listed on the website includes:

• Setting up payroll systems and coordinating new-employee onboarding
• Checking payroll reports for accuracy and compliance
• Recording payroll entries in the client's books
• Classifying workers correctly as employees or contractors, and handling 1099 filings
• Advice on Michigan payroll tax compliance and reporting
• Using payroll data in business tax planning and year-end reporting

Cleanup and Tax Problem Support

The firm also takes on businesses whose payroll records already have problems. It offers payroll reconciliation and cleanup within its bookkeeping work. It also reconstructs sales tax and withholding records. Through its tax relief practice, it helps employers with payroll tax problems, back taxes, IRS liens and levies, wage garnishments, payment plans and offers in compromise.

Related Accounting and Advisory Services

Payroll clients can use other services from the same firm. These include catch-up and monthly bookkeeping, bank and credit card reconciliation, and QuickBooks setup, conversion, training and cleanup. The firm also offers outsourced controller work, fractional CFO services and cash flow forecasting. For business taxes, it prepares returns for S corporations, partnerships, LLCs and C corporations.

Other services include business valuation, succession and exit planning, buy-side and sell-side transaction advisory, and forensic accounting. Its pages mention working with manufacturers, contractors, healthcare practices, professional service firms, nonprofits, rental property owners and seasonal tourism businesses.

Team and Service Area

The firm's team includes certified public accountants John Harvey, Michael Thompson, Dan Laskey and Betsy Beaudrie, plus Phil Bradley as CFO and other staff. According to the firm, John Harvey focuses on tax planning, business advisory work, resolving IRS issues and accounting systems. The firm has one office in Manistee.

Its pages describe service areas across Northern Michigan, West Michigan, the Upper Peninsula and the Grand Rapids area, and say clients can work with it remotely. Clients get a secure client portal and file-sharing tools. Employers in the Lansing area may find it useful if they want CPA oversight of payroll run by a separate provider.