Built for the way your business works.
Construction, restaurants, nonresidents with a US company and athletes. Each segment has its own forms, deadlines and traps. CKO knows all of them, because it has served all of them for years.
Segments
Four different businesses. Four different kinds of accounting.
What changes in each one, and what CKO does about it.
The segment CKO serves most
Construction
Subcontractors, a 1099 for every contractor, mandatory workers' comp and sales tax that changes with the contract. In construction, profit is lost in the details, and the details are accounting.
- 1099-NEC for each subcontractor, with a W-9 collected before the first payment
- Workers' compensation: mandatory in Florida construction from the first employee, with officer exemptions where they apply
- Sales tax on materials and improvement contracts, handled correctly
- Job costing in the bookkeeping, so you know which project made money
- Contractor licensing and city and county registration
- Quarterly estimated tax and the S-Corp election when profit grows
Tight cash, short deadlines
Restaurants
Payroll with tips, sales tax on food and drinks, municipal licenses and the tight cash flow of the first seasons. The restaurant that survives its first year is the one that knows the real cost of every dish.
- Weekly or biweekly payroll with tips reported and withheld correctly
- Sales tax on food, drinks and service at the county rate
- DBPR license, municipal permit and resale certificate
- Cost of goods and margin by category, every month
- 1099 for drivers and contractors, W-2 for staff
- Cash planning for the slow season
Living abroad
Nonresidents with a US company
A company or income in the United States while living abroad: 1040-NR, Form 5472, ITIN and remote formation done right. The most common mistake is forming the LLC and discovering the obligations two years later, with penalties.
- Remote LLC or Corp formation, with an EIN and no Social Security number
- Form 5472 with a pro forma 1120, mandatory for foreign-owned LLCs, with a 25,000 dollar penalty for omission
- 1040-NR for rental, business or service income in the US
- ITIN through an IRS Acceptance Agent, without a trip just for that
- Orlando vacation rentals and property: withholding, FIRPTA on sale and the annual return
- Registered agent, business address and bank account guidance
Short career, long-term wealth
Athletes and professionals
Contracts, income in more than one state and planning for those with a short career and assets to protect. Every game outside Florida can create tax in another state, and every sponsorship has its own treatment.
- Income in more than one state, reported where it is owed
- 1040 or 1040-NR depending on visa and tax residency
- Contracts, sponsorships and image rights, with the right structure for each
- An LLC for image and service activity, when it makes sense
- FBAR and assets abroad, reported without risk
- Planning for life after the career, with CKO Insurance and CKO Core
What if my business is not listed?
We have probably served one like it.
Salons and barbershops, transport and logistics, cleaning, real estate brokers, e-commerce, clinics, churches and independent professionals. More than three thousand clients since 2019, in almost every kind of business a newcomer opens in Florida.
If your company earns revenue in the United States, CKO knows what it has to file.
Tell us about my businessSalons and barbershopsTransport and logisticsCleaning and servicesReal estate and brokersE-commerceClinics and healthcareChurches and organizationsFreelancers and consultantsTourism and vacation rentals
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