Block 01What we want you to take away
That distance isn't the interesting part. Whether the tenth still happens is the interesting part, and that depends on who sits in the chair rather than on how far away they are.
Franchise tax, sales tax and the federal return keep their dates whether or not your town has a finance office. So do you.
Block 02Who would be sitting in the chair
Steven Palmieri, from a desk in Dallas, Texas. Ring the footer number and you get him rather than a queue. The byline date on this page is 29 September 2026.
Block 03Help that does not always end in a hire
Sometimes the honest answer is that one afternoon a month from a bookkeeper is all this company needs, and you'll hear that. When a signed report on statements is the real requirement, the state board's public lookup is the right first stop and it costs nothing.
Block 04The chair is not a license
Closing a month and preparing a return is ordinary work, and the person in this chair holds no CPA license. Signed audits, reviews, compilations and assurance reports stay with a firm that holds one, and that gets named before anybody discusses a start date.
Payday can be set up from this chair and is run by you on a provider you own. Nobody here stands in for you in an examination. The rest of it is written out on the disclosures page.
Source. The holding-out and reports rules at Texas Occupations Code sections 901.451, 901.453 and 901.456, read 29 September 2026 for a chair that starts inside this month.
Block 05Tell us what you need the chair for
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.