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Clean, accurate, tax ready books for Boston small businesses, delivered remotely by a certified ProAdvisor, with automation that ends manual data entry.
Overview
Boston is one of Massachusetts's key business hubs, with technology, education, and healthcare shaping much of the local economy. We keep Boston businesses current and accurate, reconcile every account, and deliver clear monthly reports, so your numbers are always something you can act on.
Sample month for a Boston business
A snapshot of the kind of clean, reconciled month we deliver.
Main industries
We handle the bookkeeping quirks specific to technology businesses, from how revenue and costs flow to the reports that matter.
We handle the bookkeeping quirks specific to healthcare businesses, from how revenue and costs flow to the reports that matter.
We handle the bookkeeping quirks specific to startups businesses, from how revenue and costs flow to the reports that matter.
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Upload or paste a bank statement and instantly get auto-categorized transactions and a live profit and loss. Automation you can see, private in your browser.
Open the P&L tool →Free toolPaste your open invoices and see who owes you and how overdue it is, with a ready to work chase list. Private, in your browser.
Open the receivables tool →Local tax & compliance
Massachusetts taxes personal income, so owners of pass-through businesses (sole proprietors, LLCs, and S corporations) need clean, reconciled year-end books for their state return.
Massachusetts's statewide base sales tax rate is 6.25%. Local taxes are often added on top, so the rate you charge depends on where your sales happen. We track sales tax collected separately from revenue so filing is simple.
Massachusetts has a single statewide sales tax rate and taxes high earners with an additional surtax.
Most Massachusetts business filings go to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. We keep your books organized so these returns are a simple handoff to you or your CPA.
General information as of 2026, not tax advice. Rates and rules change, so confirm current requirements with the Massachusetts Department of Revenue or your tax advisor.
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Local business guide
Every city adds its own licenses, local taxes and deadlines on top of federal and state rules. These are the ones Boston business owners ask us about most, and the ones we build into your monthly bookkeeping calendar so nothing is missed.
Massachusetts statewide rate on tangible personal property and telecommunications services, with no local general sales tax. (source) Keep your POS, invoicing and accounting software on the current rate. Out-of-date rates are one of the most common errors we fix during bookkeeping cleanup.
Boston’s economy is built around life sciences and biotech, healthcare, technology and ai and finance and insurance. (source) We support local companies in these sectors and the service businesses around them, from contractors and agencies to professional firms and online sellers. Related services: technology and SaaS bookkeeping, professional services bookkeeping.
Because we work 100% remotely, businesses across the Boston area get the same service, including Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Newton, Quincy, Waltham, Medford, Watertown, Dedham, Needham, Back Bay and Seaport District. There are no office visits: we work in your QuickBooks Online or Xero file with secure, read-only bank access and one dedicated bookkeeper.
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Book Free ConsultationCall +1 (832) 240-0830FAQ
Yes, we serve small businesses in Boston and across Massachusetts entirely remotely, with secure access and one direct contact.
No. Everything is handled remotely through your accounting software, so location inside Boston or Massachusetts is never a barrier.
A wide range, with strength in technology, healthcare, and startups businesses common in the Boston area.
We aim to respond within 24 hours, often much faster during business hours.
Yes, if it owns personal property. Boston requires State Tax Form 2 (Form of List) by March 1 each year, filed electronically, with only narrow exemptions.
Every four years. The fee is $65, plus $35 for owners who do not live in Massachusetts, and you file with the City Clerk.
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