Expert Accounting Services for Your Business

Timely and accurate financial reporting, accounting, and bookkeeping practices ensure that your business operations will run efficiently and are the foundation of any successful business.

Bagley and Macleod, a business accounting firm in St. Louis, can provide advice and wisdom in helping you grow and develop your business as well as provide the expertise that your financials are correct.

Our team has the knowledge and skills needed to help you better manage the financial health of your business and simplify your bookkeeping.  

Our tax accountants provide tax planning services designed to advise and guide small business owners, midsized companies, nonprofits, individuals, and families to realize all possible tax advantages under the IRS tax codes. We keep up with IRS rules and regulations so you can focus on your business and family. 

• Business Tax Return Preparation and Planning 
• Corporate and Partnership Tax Planning and Return Preparation 
• Filing of Tax Forms 
• Sales Tax preparation  

We offer comprehensive payroll services, including processing payroll, managing employee benefits, and filing payroll taxes. Our team will handle all of the details so you can focus on growing your business.

Maybe you don’t own a business, and you just need help with your family or personal tax preparation. We have many clients just like you. You want someone who can stay on top of the increasingly complex tax laws and take advantage of all the credits and deductions that you work hard to deserve.

Your tax needs are as individual as you are, so our approach to your tax planning and return preparation is tailored to your specific needs and goals. Whether you have an immediate financial concern or need long-term solutions, we can apply our solid understanding of the tax code to your specific situation. Here are many of the common tax issues we routinely handle for our clients.

• Financial and Estate Planning
• Federal and State (all 50) Income Tax Return Preparation, Prior Year Returns 
• Property Purchases – Are you getting your homestead deduction to save on property taxes. Are you buying a piece of property and want to understand the tax implications? 
• Property Sales – Reporting capital gain or losses from the sale of a home. Reporting Gains/losses, deferring gains/losses, installment sales,  
• Rental Income – If you own rental properties, including homes, trailers, apartments or more, we can properly handle the reporting of your income, expenses & deductions so you won’t have to worry.  
• Investment Income - Whether you are doing simple stock buys and sells, or investing in more complex investment vehicles that report your activity on a K-1, we can help you understand and guide you on managing your tax liabilities over the coming years.  

                          K-1s 

                          Dividends 

                          Calculating Basis 

                          Capital Gains 

                          Stock Sales 

                          Short Sales 

• Life Events (Getting Married)- Filing as a couple vs individual is going to have different tax implications. 
• FAFSA- Need help filling out FAFSA paperwork and reporting the proper income, student loans and scholarships. 

While the above issues are the most commonly observed forms of tax issues, we have seen hundreds of unique issues that are too obscure to list here. If you would like to know whether we can address an issue that is not listed here. Please feel free to give us a call, send us an email, or submit a question through our contact page.

Our business audit services take you beyond the numbers, giving you a critical analysis of your operations and offering added value beyond simply providing an opinion on your financial statements

• Closely held private business audits, reviews, and compilations 
• Not-for-profit organizations audit 
• Benefit Plan Limited Scope Audits
• Agreed Upon Procedures  

 We are well versed in accounting software and can assist you with training and support for your accounting software. We support the following accounting software:

• Intuit Quickbooks
• Sage
• PeachTree by Sage