Our state and local tax (SALT) specialists are often able to find tax savings or refund opportunities for our clients by diligently remaining aware of the most recent changes that affect our clients. SS&G provides a complete range of state and local tax services to satisfy our clients' needs for corporate income tax, payroll tax, personal property tax, and sales/use tax.
The research and development (R&D) tax credit encourages companies to invest resources into research, development, and experimentation of products. However, it can be difficult to take advantage of due to its complex calculations and limitations. Our experienced tax professionals help clients to take advantage of the R&D tax credit, having found annual R&D tax credit savings ranging from $6,000 to $280,000.
Our international tax professionals have extensive experience with cross-border transactions. SS&G provides international tax services including international tax compliance (U.S. and foreign), planning, and audit representation to minimize U.S., foreign, withholding, VAT, and GST taxes. We work with clients, in collaboration with our worldwide affiliates from The Leading Edge Alliance, assist with the local accounting and tax needs related to a client's foreign operations.
The corporate finance group works with companies to evaluate and maximize their financial strategies, organizational structures, and operations. We have assisted hundreds of companies in meeting their financial needs. The corporate finance group coordinates efforts with the client's management team, attorneys, lenders, and others. SS&G staff also spends a considerable amount of time researching special programs and grants available to companies across a wide array of industries.
Our employee benefit plan audit team has extensive experience performing audits of a variety of benefit plans, including defined contribution, defined benefit, and health and welfare benefit plans, including plans that require SEC filings. The professionals in our audit group work closely with our retirement plan design and administration department to evaluate and ensure our clients' adherence to current governmental regulations.
Our professionals have experience with a variety of merger and acquisition situations, ranging from complex, multi-corporation mergers to single-owner business acquisitions. We are well-versed in all of the financial details that these transactions entail. SS&G can assist clients with: projections and feasibility studies, buy-sell agreement consulting, integration assistance, post-acquisition transition consulting, and more.
Our team of outsourcing professionals provides accounting, human resources, technology, and payroll services to a wide range of industries. We provide outsourcing services to either complement or replace an internal accounting department. Our human resources services professionals assist with recruiting and management training. Our technology services include network planning, design, and implementation, spam and virus solutions, and data extraction and report writing. Through our payroll affiliate, Paytime Payroll Processing, we can handle all aspects of a company's payroll, from producing checks to preparing payroll tax returns.
As a professional services firm, we understand the needs of this industry and the challenges faced on a daily basis. Our team of specialists provides services that are optimized and customized for the unique structure and environment in which these businesses operate.
We work with law firms, advertising and public relations agencies, technology companies, communications and graphic design groups, architects, interior designers, and many other professional firms. Each of these businesses is unique, and the members of our professional services group have the knowledge and experience to understand and adapt to each client's specific situation.
Our professionals address the special fiscal reporting, tax, financial planning, and information systems consulting requirements of these businesses, as well as the traditional range of accounting, auditing, tax, and management consulting services.
