Orlando · Orange County
Accountants in Orlando, Florida
Monthly bookkeeping, payroll and tax filing for Orlando small businesses — from a team based here, who know what a Central Florida season does to your cash flow.
The local picture
Small business accounting built for the Orlando economy
Orlando's business economy runs on a rhythm most of the country does not have. Visitor volume drives revenue for a huge share of local businesses, and it does not arrive evenly — which means the businesses here live and die on cash flow timing rather than annual profit.
That shapes what good accounting looks like locally. A restaurant in Dr. Phillips or a tour operator near International Drive does not need a year-end tax return as their main financial touchpoint; they need to know in July what February is going to look like. We build the reporting rhythm around that.
We work with businesses across Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties — Downtown Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Nona, Dr. Phillips, Kissimmee, Altamonte Springs, Windermere and Baldwin Park.
Who we work with
What Orlando businesses actually struggle with
Every industry has one accounting problem that costs it more than all the others combined. These are the ones we see most here.
Hospitality and short-term rentals
Transient rental tax is separate from ordinary sales tax and is administered differently depending on the county — Orange County collects its own tourist development tax. Owners routinely discover they have been filing one and not the other.
Restaurants and food service
Tipped wages, tip credits and the reporting obligations that come with a large tipped workforce make payroll here materially more complex than a standard hourly operation.
Construction and trades
Job costing that never gets done properly, subcontractor 1099 tracking, and workers' comp classification codes that quietly drift out of date as the crew's work changes.
Healthcare practices
Insurance receivables that age badly, and a payroll structure with mixed W-2 and contractor clinicians that invites classification problems.
Tourism services
Severe seasonality with fixed year-round overhead — the businesses that fail here usually do so in a slow month with a profitable year on paper.
Tax facts
What's different about Orange County
Local tax rules are not trivia. Getting the wrong surtax rate on a year of invoices is a margin problem you cannot go back and collect.
Orange County sales surtax
Florida's state sales tax rate is 6%, and Orange County adds a discretionary sales surtax on top. Which county's surtax applies depends on where the sale is sourced — a genuine complication for businesses delivering or serving across the Orange, Seminole and Osceola county lines.
No state personal income tax
Florida levies no personal income tax, which materially changes the entity-structure calculation compared with most states — profits taken through a pass-through entity avoid a layer of state tax that an owner in Georgia or New York would pay.
Tourist development tax
If you rent accommodation for short stays, Orange County's tourist development tax is an additional obligation on top of state sales tax, with its own registration and filing. It is one of the most commonly missed filings in this market.
General information, current as of publication — not tax advice for your specific situation. Rules and rates change. Talk to us about your circumstances.
Servicios
What we do for Orlando businesses
Questions
Orlando FAQs
Yes — Orlando is our home office and the market we know best. Most of our clients work with us entirely online because it is faster, but if you would rather sit down in person, we can.
Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties broadly — Downtown Orlando, Winter Park, Lake Nona, Dr. Phillips, Kissimmee, Altamonte Springs, Windermere, Baldwin Park and the surrounding communities.
Every engagement is scoped and priced in writing before you commit. The number depends on transaction volume, employee count and how many entities and states are involved. A single-member LLC with clean books and no payroll sits at the bottom of the range; a multi-entity operation with twenty employees sits well above it. The consultation is free and you get a written number before anything starts.
Yes. If you operate short-term rentals or accommodation, this is a separate registration and filing from your state sales tax, and it is the obligation we most often find has been missed entirely by owners who assumed sales tax covered it.
Yes. Tipped payroll carries reporting obligations that standard hourly payroll does not, and large food and beverage establishments have additional annual reporting on tips. It is one of the more common places we find historical exposure when we take on an Orlando restaurant.
No. We load your historical transactions month by month and reconcile back to a clean starting point before beginning the monthly rhythm. Catch-up work is quoted separately so you can see what the cleanup costs versus the ongoing service.
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