Bookkeeping & Tax Preparation in Buzzards Bay & Wareham, MA

Bookkeeping — Buzzards Bay, Wareham & Cape Cod, and nationwide

Running a business on the Cape is seasonal, busy, and unforgiving of paperwork that piles up. Skyline keeps your books current month after month, so you always know where your business stands — and tax season stops being a scramble. Everything is handled remotely with secure online tools, so you get a local bookkeeper who knows the Buzzards Bay and Wareham area without dropping off a box of receipts.

• Monthly or quarterly bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online
• Bank and credit card reconciliation, every period
• Clean financial statements delivered by the 15th of the following month
• Massachusetts sales tax and meals tax filings
• Payroll coordination and year-end 1099 support
• Catch-up work if you're behind — see QuickBooks cleanup

Because the same firm keeps your books and prepares your return, your tax season starts from numbers we already trust.

Tax preparation — individuals & businesses

Tax season is easier when your preparer knows you before April. Skyline prepares individual and business returns for clients in Wareham, Buzzards Bay, and across the South Coast — and works remotely with clients nationwide. For Wareham businesses on monthly bookkeeping, the same bookkeeper who keeps your books all year prepares the return, so the numbers tie out the first time. Your return is prepared here and e-filed through professional software; your documents move through a secure client portal, never as email attachments with your Social Security number in them.

• Individuals & families (Form 1040)
• Self-employed & gig workers (Schedule C)
• S corporations & partnerships (Forms 1120-S & 1065)
• Real estate investors — rentals, short-term rentals, cost segregation
• Multi-state returns — nearly every state (Oregon & Maryland individuals excepted)

Your fee is agreed up front and due before your return is transmitted — no surprise bill after the fact. One scope note, plainly: Skyline prepares and e-files returns. We don't represent clients before the IRS or handle audits — if that's what you need, we'll tell you up front rather than take the engagement.

QuickBooks cleanup & setup

Behind on your books? QuickBooks a mess of duplicates, uncategorized transactions, and accounts that don't match your bank statements? That's fixable — and it's where most of Skyline's new bookkeeping clients start. The cleanup isn't handed off to a junior staffer or an offshore team: the person you talk to is the person who rebuilds your file.

• Assessment first — we tell you exactly what's wrong, how far back it goes, and what it will take to fix
• One fixed-fee cleanup quote in writing before any cleanup work begins
• Rebuilt & reconciled — categorized, de-duplicated, tied to the statements
• New-company setup — chart of accounts built for your business, bank feeds connected, and a walkthrough of your own reports

We work through a QuickBooks accountant invite — never your password. Most cleanup clients move onto monthly bookkeeping so the books never slide again.

Form 5472, FBAR & international tax compliance

If you own a US business from outside the United States, or you're an American living abroad, your US filing obligations don't go away — and the penalties for missing them are steep. Skyline handles US-side international tax compliance remotely for clients worldwide, through a secure portal, on fixed fees.

• Foreign owners of US LLCs — a foreign-owned single-member LLC must file Form 5472 with a pro forma 1120 every year, even with no income; penalties start at $10,000 per year
• Late filings — delinquent years brought current with a reasonable-cause statement requesting penalty relief
• FBAR (FinCEN 114) — required when foreign accounts totaled over $10,000 at any point in the year; due April 15 with an automatic extension to October 15
• Form 8938 (FATCA) reporting for specified foreign financial assets
• US expats — Form 1040 with foreign income reporting (Forms 2555 / 1116)

Scope, plainly: Skyline handles the US side of your taxes. We don't prepare other countries' returns or represent clients before the IRS.

Estimated cost segregation studies

A cost segregation study looks at a property piece by piece and moves parts of its cost out of the standard 27.5- or 39-year depreciation schedule into much shorter 5-, 7-, and 15-year categories. Done in the right year, it can pull years of depreciation deductions into the present — improving cash flow without selling anything.

Skyline's studies are estimated cost segregation studies, prepared by John Vieira himself — not handed to an outside firm. An estimated study uses cost-estimation data and property records to break out the shorter-life components of your building: a practical, lower-cost option sized for the properties most individual investors own — single-family rentals, small multifamily, short-term rentals, and smaller commercial property.

• Free preliminary savings estimate before you commit to a study
• One fixed fee in writing for your property before work begins
• Retroactive application — properties bought in prior years can still qualify, with a catch-up deduction
• Plugs straight into your return — or a clean report to hand your own preparer

Being straight about the limits: for very large or complex properties, a full engineering-based study may be the better tool — and we'll tell you that before you pay for anything. Timing is where most of the value is, so ask when you're buying, closing, or planning renovations.