IMAAR Associates provides bookkeeping services for Texas businesses — energy and oilfield service companies, general and specialty contractors, logistics and distribution operators, and Austin's growing tech and startup scene — who need clean, audit-ready books without carrying a Texas office on the payroll. Your books are handled by a dedicated bookkeeping team and reviewed by a US-licensed CPA, delivered remotely to businesses anywhere in the state at flat monthly pricing instead of a Texas hourly rate.
Texas has no state income tax, on individuals or on pass-through business income, and that's a genuine draw for business owners relocating or expanding into the state. It's also only part of the picture. Most Texas LLCs and corporations whose annual revenue crosses the state's threshold still owe an annual franchise tax report — often called the margin tax — and it's a filing that catches a lot of new-to-Texas owners off guard precisely because they assumed "no income tax" meant no state-level business tax at all. Getting the franchise tax calculation right depends on accurate total revenue and cost-of-goods or compensation figures pulled straight from your books, so it isn't something a CPA can reconstruct well from a shoebox of receipts in March.
The other piece is sales tax. Texas combines a state rate with local sales tax added by cities, counties, transit authorities, and special-purpose districts, so the effective rate a business collects and remits can differ from one jurisdiction to the next even within the same metro area. Businesses selling across more than one Texas city, or shipping to customers in different counties, need books that track taxable sales by jurisdiction from the point of sale — not sales tax reconciled as an afterthought at filing time. Between franchise tax and multi-jurisdiction sales tax, "no income tax" doesn't translate to "simple," and it's exactly where consistent monthly bookkeeping earns its keep.
Texas doesn't run on one industry — it runs on several large ones stacked on top of each other, and each shapes bookkeeping needs differently. Energy and oilfield service companies bill by well, day rate, or contract, with 1099 subcontractors and equipment costs layered into every job. Construction and specialty trade contractors need job costing that tracks labor, materials, and subcontractor spend against each project, plus retainage tracked separately from regular receivables. Logistics and distribution operators — a natural fit for a state built around interstate highways and Gulf Coast ports — need clean fuel, mileage, and per-load cost tracking alongside standard books. And Austin's tech and startup sector brings a different set of needs entirely: burn-rate visibility, R&D expense tracking, and investor-ready financials.
Job- and well-level costing, 1099 subcontractor tracking, and equipment cost allocation built into your monthly close.
Contractor job costing, retainage tracked apart from receivables, and per-load cost tracking for distribution and trucking operations.
Burn-rate visibility, expense categorization, and clean monthly financials formatted for investor updates and diligence.
Bookkeeping is delivered remotely, so it works the same no matter which Texas city your business calls home. We currently maintain dedicated pages for the following metro areas, with more Texas cities planned:
Bookkeeping for oil & gas service companies and specialty trade contractors around the Energy Corridor and beyond.
Bookkeeping for Dallas-Fort Worth area businesses across professional services, logistics, and trades.
Bookkeeping for Austin startups and small businesses, including investor-ready financials for early-stage companies.
Bookkeeping for defense contractors, healthcare practices, and family-owned businesses around JBSA and the Medical Center.
Bookkeeping for manufacturers, aviation-supply-chain businesses, and logistics companies around the Alliance corridor.
Don't see your city listed? We serve businesses statewide, including smaller Texas markets, on the same remote, flat-fee model — get in touch to get started.
Bookkeeping tailored to Texas's tax structure and industry mix is the foundation — these related pages go deeper on specific needs:
No — we don't have a physical office anywhere in Texas, and we won't claim otherwise. Bookkeeping is delivered remotely by a dedicated team and reviewed by a US-licensed CPA, the same way for every Texas business whether you're in Houston's Energy Corridor, downtown Dallas, or an Austin startup office. Not carrying local office overhead is a big part of how we keep pricing flat instead of billing a Texas hourly rate.
No income tax is real, but it's not the whole picture. Most Texas LLCs and corporations above the state's revenue threshold still owe an annual franchise (margin) tax report, and businesses collecting sales tax have to track rates that vary by city, county, and special-purpose district. Clean, current books are what make both of those filings accurate instead of a scramble at deadline time.
Yes. Bookkeeping is delivered remotely, so location within Texas doesn't change how we work — we have dedicated pages for Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Fort Worth, and we serve businesses statewide, including smaller Texas markets, on the same remote model.
Yes. We set up your books to track taxable and non-taxable sales by jurisdiction so the state, city, and any applicable special-district rates are captured correctly for filing, rather than reconciled after the fact. This matters most for businesses selling or operating across more than one Texas metro area.
