Books that are current, reconciled and ready. Monthly reconciliation, ledger management and audit-ready records for Sint Maarten businesses, kept by a certified bookkeeper rather than assembled at the deadline.
Not a year-end scramble. A maintained record that is correct on the last day of every month.
Bank, card and cash accounts reconciled every month, so the books match reality rather than approximating it.
A maintained general ledger with a chart of accounts structured for your business rather than a generic template.
Invoices in and out tracked and aged, so you know who owes you and what is falling due.
Records kept in the form the monthly TOT filing actually needs, rather than reassembled at the deadline.
A profit and loss and a balance sheet each month, in a format you can read without an accounting background.
Documentation retained and organised so that a review, a bank request or a due diligence exercise does not become a scramble.
Where CaribTax also runs your payroll, the wage journal posts straight into the ledger without re-keying.
Books closed and packaged for the annual return, whether that return is filed by CaribTax or by someone else.
Once when they are reconstructed, and again when the reconstruction turns out to be wrong.
Turnover tax is monthly and the annual return is fixed. Records assembled under deadline pressure are where errors, and the penalties that follow them, originate.
Books that are six months behind describe a business you no longer run. Monthly figures let you act on the current year rather than explain the last one.
Banks, lenders, buyers and licensing bodies all ask for financial records, usually at short notice. Being able to produce them quickly is worth more than it appears until the day it is needed.
Bookkeeping cost is driven by transaction volume and the state of the current records, so a published flat rate would be misleading for most businesses.
We look at your transaction levels, accounts and how current the existing records are. This takes a call and a look at recent statements.
A monthly figure for the ongoing service. Where the books need catching up first, that is quoted separately as a one-off so it is never blended into the monthly number.
The monthly figure holds unless your volume changes materially, in which case we tell you before it changes rather than after.
No. Bookkeeping is the continuous record of what the business did. The return is the annual declaration built from that record. Good books make the return straightforward and cheap; poor books make it expensive and slow.
If you are registered for turnover tax, employ anyone, or hold a business bank account, you have records that need maintaining. The volume determines the effort, not whether the obligation exists.
Yes, and catch-up work is a common way engagements start. We assess how far behind the records are and quote the catch-up separately from the ongoing monthly service, so you can see both numbers.
Bank statements, purchase invoices, sales records and anything unusual. Most clients settle into a simple monthly routine, and we chase what is missing rather than waiting for it.
Yes. We are frequently engaged to maintain the books while an existing accountant handles the annual return, and we deliver the year-end package in the form they want it.
We work with what you already have where that is practical, and recommend a change only where the current setup is actively creating work. Migrating a ledger is disruptive and should have a reason.
By volume and complexity, quoted in writing after a short review of your transaction levels and current state. Where books need catching up first, that is quoted as a separate one-off so it is not blended into the monthly figure.
A short call to look at your volume and the current state of your records, followed by a written quote. If your existing arrangement is working, we will say so.
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