Payroll Companies & Payroll Services in Stillwater, MN

Integrated Tax Services is a tax and accounting firm licensed in Minnesota. Its two main specialties are tax preparation and payroll. The Stillwater office is the closest one to Woodbury. The firm also has offices in Fairmont, Lakeville and New Prague, so it covers the Twin Cities metro and southern Minnesota.

Clients include business owners, executives, self-employed professionals and individual taxpayers. The firm presents itself as a practical, affordable choice for small and mid-sized companies that want payroll handled together with their other tax and bookkeeping work.

Payroll and business services

Payroll is part of the firm's Business Services offering, which is meant to take routine financial paperwork off the owner's desk. For buyers comparing payroll providers, the key point is that payroll, accounting and tax work all happen at one firm. That can make year-end reporting easier and means fewer handoffs between vendors. Business services include:

• Payroll services for small businesses
• Small business accounting and bookkeeping
• QuickBooks setup and support
• Cash flow management
• Help with bank financing
• New business formation

The firm also helps employers with payroll tax problems. Businesses that fall behind on depositing withheld taxes or filing payroll returns can face heavy penalties and aggressive IRS collection. The firm advises these employers not to deal with the agency on their own and offers to represent them.

It also handles related collection issues such as liens, levies, wage garnishments, seizures, IRS payment plans and offers in compromise. A company changing providers after a payroll compliance problem may find it useful to get both ongoing processing and cleanup help from the same firm.

Tax and advisory work

Beyond payroll, the firm prepares tax returns and stresses planning ahead to lower clients' taxes legally, not just meeting filing deadlines. It also handles IRS audit representation, unfiled returns, back taxes, innocent spouse relief and requests for clients' IRS files. New clients can ask for a free first consultation. Current clients send documents through a secure online portal and can pay invoices online. Offices are open on weekdays and close for lunch at midday.

Team and credentials

The firm is led by owners and partners Steve Smith and Matthew Sengsouvanna. Smith has more than 37 years in tax and accounting. He held senior controller roles at a large multinational company and ran his own firm, Valley Accounting and Tax, for over a dozen years. Sengsouvanna is an Enrolled Agent who focuses on tax strategy and also holds the FIC designation. Other team members include:

• Jeff Sauer, a CPA practicing since 1979, with expertise in Employee Stock Ownership Plans
• Ed McNamara, a Minnesota CPA and Enrolled Agent with a master's degree in tax law from Villanova University
• Dan Selner, a former practice owner with more than two decades in the field
• Jennie Klinkner, who heads the accounting advisory department
• Tucker Schumann, a senior tax professional and military veteran

The firm has grown partly by taking over established local practices, including Selner's firm and the Fairmont practice of the late Ron Arens, CPA. Sauer's clients come from real estate, service businesses, wholesale and light manufacturing, and include individuals, partnerships, S and C corporations, trusts and estates.

For Woodbury-area employers who want a payroll provider that also offers hands-on tax planning, accounting and IRS representation, Integrated Tax Services is a locally staffed alternative to national payroll platforms, with CPAs and Enrolled Agents on its team.