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Bookkeeping services for Los Angeles businesses.

Staxiom runs the accounting back office for Los Angeles small businesses and startups. We're based in Brea, next door in Orange County. Your books are done every month and ready at tax time, starting at $200/month.

What's included

Books done every month

Every transaction categorized and every account reconciled, on a monthly schedule.

Reports you can read

A profit and loss, balance sheet and cash view each month, not a year-end scramble.

Ready at tax time

Clean books your tax preparer can use as they are. Already have a CPA? We work alongside them.

Who we work with in Los Angeles

Small businesses and shops. Restaurants, food makers, retail and online shops. Sales from Square, Shopify or markets matched to deposits, and sales tax tracked so the return is easy.

Creators and production work. Creators, studios and production companies. Project income, brand deals and contractor payments kept in the right buckets, with 1099s ready in January.

Startups. Software and consumer startups across LA. Books an investor can read, and R&D spending tracked so the credit is easy to claim.

Service businesses. Agencies, consultants, contractors and real estate teams. Clean books, owner pay sorted out, and quarterly numbers before estimated taxes are due.

What your bookkeeper does each month

  1. Connect your bank, card, payroll and sales accounts to your accounting software, so nothing is typed by hand.
  2. Categorize every transaction, and ask you about the few we can't place on our own.
  3. Reconcile each bank and card account to its statement, so the balances in the books are real.
  4. Match payouts from Square, Shopify, Stripe or your marketplace to the sales behind them, including fees and refunds.
  5. Close the month and send your profit and loss and balance sheet, with a short note on anything that changed.

Behind on your books? Most new clients are. We start with a catch-up: we rebuild the missing months first, then move you onto the monthly schedule. The catch-up cost calculator gives a rough read on what a backlog will take.

What LA books have to support

The monthly work is the same everywhere: categorize, reconcile, close the month. What changes in Los Angeles is the list of filings that depend on those books.

  • LA city business tax. Businesses operating in the City of Los Angeles need a Business Tax Registration Certificate. Small businesses with about $100,000 or less in worldwide gross receipts can qualify for an exemption, but only if they're registered and file the yearly renewal on time, by the end of February. That renewal asks for your gross receipts, which come straight from your books.
  • Sales tax. If you sell taxable goods, you need a California seller's permit, and your sales tax return is only as good as the sales numbers behind it.
  • Statement of information. Corporations and LLCs file a statement of information with the California Secretary of State on a schedule.
  • The $800 minimum tax. California LLCs owe $800 a year, and corporations owe the $800 minimum franchise tax after their first year, even in a year with no profit.

See how this looks for Orange County and San Diego, or read the full guide to bookkeeping services.

Los Angeles bookkeeping FAQ

How much does bookkeeping cost for a Los Angeles business?

The same as anywhere else Staxiom works: bookkeeping-only starts at $200/month on the entry tier and scales with revenue and transaction complexity, not by location. See the full pricing breakdown on the bookkeeping services page.

Do you have an office in Los Angeles?

No. We're based in Brea, in Orange County, and work with Los Angeles businesses remotely, the same as every Staxiom client. The monthly work doesn't need an in-person visit, so the service is the same anywhere in LA.

Do LA businesses have different bookkeeping needs?

The core discipline, categorization, reconciliation, monthly close, is identical everywhere. What differs is what shows up in the books: media and entertainment-adjacent startups common in LA often have project-based or milestone revenue recognition questions that a generic bookkeeper unfamiliar with the industry can miss, which is part of why the same team handling bookkeeping and tax strategy together catches more than a bookkeeper working in isolation.

See if we're a fit for your books.

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