Miami · Miami-Dade County
Accountants in Miami, Florida
Bookkeeping, payroll and tax filing for Miami businesses — and U.S. company formation for the founders arriving here from across Latin America and beyond.
The local picture
Miami is where our two kinds of client meet
Miami is not simply another Florida market. It is the point where domestic small business and international business formation overlap — and it is the reason a firm that does both has something specific to offer here.
A Brickell consultancy, a Doral import operation and a founder in Bogotá forming a U.S. LLC to take American customers are three different clients with one thing in common: cross-border money movement, and the compliance obligations that follow it. Most local bookkeepers do not handle the second half of that. Most international formation services do not handle the first.
We work across Miami-Dade — Brickell, Doral, Coral Gables, Wynwood, Kendall, Miami Beach, Hialeah and Aventura — and with founders around the world who never set foot in the city.
Who we work with
What Miami 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.
International trade and import/export
Foreign currency transactions, customs and duty treatment, and related-party transactions with an overseas parent that trigger their own reporting requirements.
Real estate and property management
Foreign ownership of U.S. property carries withholding obligations on sale that catch owners out badly, and rental income has its own election-dependent treatment.
Hospitality and nightlife
Cash-intensive operations with tipped staff — the combination that draws the most scrutiny and where documentation discipline matters most.
Professional services and consulting
Clients in multiple countries, payment platforms that report inconsistently, and the question of which income is genuinely U.S.-sourced.
E-commerce and logistics
Marketplace facilitator rules mean some sales tax is collected for you and some is not, and the split is rarely understood until a notice arrives.
Tax facts
What's different about Miami-Dade 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.
Miami-Dade County sales surtax
Miami-Dade adds its own discretionary sales surtax to Florida's 6% state rate. As elsewhere, the applicable surtax follows where the sale is sourced — which matters here because so many Miami businesses sell well beyond the county.
Foreign-owned entities have extra filings
A U.S. LLC owned by a non-resident is treated very differently from one owned by a U.S. person. A foreign-owned company generally has federal information reporting due each year — even when it owes no tax — a filing a great many owners never learn about until it is late.
Withholding on U.S. property
Sales of U.S. real property by foreign persons are subject to a withholding regime that takes a percentage of the gross sale price at closing, not of the gain. Planning for it before the transaction is a very different experience from discovering it at the closing table.
General information, current as of publication — not tax advice for your specific situation. Rules and rates change. Talk to us about your circumstances.
Services
What we do for Miami businesses
Questions
Miami FAQs
Sí — podemos atenderle en español. Please ask when you book and we will make sure a Spanish-speaking team member handles your consultation. A meaningful part of our client base is Spanish-speaking, both in Miami and across Latin America.
Yes — we have offices in Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville, available by appointment. Most of the relationship still runs online, which suits Miami particularly well: a large share of our Miami work is with founders who are not in the United States at all, and everything is designed to work wherever you are.
Start with the state question, which is less obvious than it looks — Florida is often the right answer if you have real operations or customers here, but not automatically. Then the entity type, then the EIN, then banking. A Social Security Number is not required to form the company, and the IRS's Instructions for Form SS-4 cover the case where the responsible party does not have — and is not eligible to obtain — an SSN or ITIN. Our guide for non-residents walks the whole path.
Almost certainly more than you have been told. A foreign-owned single-member LLC generally has federal information reporting due each year, even where the LLC owes no tax and even where it had almost no activity. Transactions with the foreign parent — including money you put in — can be reportable. We map out exactly what applies to you.
Miami-Dade County broadly: Brickell, Doral, Coral Gables, Wynwood, Kendall, Miami Beach, Hialeah, Aventura and the surrounding areas.
Partly the marketplace and partly you, and the split is where people get caught. Marketplace facilitator rules mean platforms like Amazon collect and remit for sales made through them, but sales through your own store are yours to handle — and having marketplace sales does not necessarily remove your own registration and filing obligations.
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