🔦 Now accepting 3 new clients for Q3 2026 — Tri-Cities small businesses only

📍 Serving the Tri-Cities, WA — Pasco · Kennewick · Richland

Your Books Should Work for You—Not Keep You Up at Night.

You started your Tri-Cities business to serve customers, not to wrestle with spreadsheets at 11 PM. We handle your bookkeeping, payroll, and taxes — every receipt categorized, every quarter filed, every employee paid on time — so you can get back to running your business in Pasco, Kennewick, or Richland.

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✓ CPA-Led by Willson Franklin
✓ QuickBooks ProAdvisor Certified
✓ Based in the Tri-Cities
✓ 90-Day "Books Done Right" Guarantee

Does This Sound Familiar?

Most Accountants Disappear After Tax Season.
We Don't Think That's Good Enough.

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"I don't know where I stand."

Your bank balance says one thing, your books say another. You're making decisions in the dark because your numbers are weeks — sometimes months — behind reality. Every quarter is a guessing game.

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"Payroll is a recurring nightmare."

Every two weeks: Did I calculate the withholding correctly? Did the L&I report file? Are the PTO banks right? One mistake and an employee's check is wrong — or worse, the state comes calling.

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"My accountant ghosted me."

Radio silence for 11 months, then a frantic scramble in April. You're stuffing receipts into a folder and hoping nothing falls through the cracks. You're paying for stress relief and getting the opposite.

"You shouldn't have to be a CPA to know if your business is healthy."

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The Tri-Cities Small Business Tax Deadline Calendar

Every WA State filing deadline, DOR due date, and payroll tax deadline for 2026 — pre-loaded into a one-page checklist. Print it, pin it, never miss a deadline again.

  • ✓ WA State DOR monthly/quarterly due dates
  • ✓ Federal payroll tax filing deadlines
  • ✓ L&I quarterly report dates
  • ✓ Personal & business tax deadlines
  • ✓ Bonus: "What to prepare before each deadline" mini-guide
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No signup wall. No spam. If it's useful and you want help implementing it, that's when we talk.

📅 2026 Tax Deadline Calendar
Jan 31 — W-2s & 1099s due
Jan 31 — Q4 L&I report
Feb 28 — 1096 transmittal
Apr 15 — Personal tax deadline
Apr 30 — Q1 DOR + L&I
Jun 15 — Q2 estimated tax
Jul 31 — Q2 DOR + L&I
Sep 15 — Q3 estimated tax
Oct 31 — Q3 DOR + L&I
+ 6 more deadlines inside →

Meet Steadfast Accounting

We're Not Just Your Accountant.
We're the Partner Who Picks Up the Phone.

Willson Franklin, CPA founded Steadfast Accounting after years of watching Tri-Cities business owners get ghosted by their accountants, surprised by their tax bills, and left to figure out payroll on their own.

We do things differently: you get a real human who knows your name, returns your calls, and proactively flags problems before they become expensive. No call centers. No handing you off to an intern. No radio silence for 11 months. We're the accounting firm that acts like a partner, not a vendor you hear from once a year.

Steadfast We show up — consistently, reliably, with integrity. The same values your business was built on.
Innovative We leverage automation and AI tools so your books are faster, cheaper, and more accurate than the old way.
Excellence We sweat the details — the $43 discrepancy, the misclassified transaction, the deduction you almost missed.
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"Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain."

— 1 Corinthians 15:58

CPA Licensed · State of Washington
Tri-Cities Born, based, and invested locally
Same-Day Callback guarantee for all clients

How It Works

From Overwhelmed to On Track in Three Steps

1

Free 30-Min Consultation

We sit down together — coffee on us — and audit where you are right now. You leave with a clear list of what's broken, what's costing you money, and what to fix first. No sales pitch. No obligation.

2

Your Custom Game Plan

Within 48 hours, you get a written plan: which services you need, what it costs, and a timeline. Written in plain English — no accounting jargon. You approve it before anything starts.

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Your Numbers Are Handled

Books reconciled monthly. Payroll processed on time, every time. DOR reports filed before they're due. Tax-ready financials all year. You stop worrying about numbers. Period.

Free Interactive Tools

Run the Numbers Yourself — No Strings Attached

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LLC vs S-Corp Tax Calculator

Should your LLC elect S-Corp status? Enter your profit and see the exact tax difference — self-employment savings vs payroll costs. Includes a recommended reasonable salary and full side-by-side breakdown.

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Contractor vs Employee Classifier

Worker misclassification is one of the most expensive mistakes a WA business can make. Answer 12 questions about your working relationship and get an instant IRS + L&I risk score.

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WA Paystub & Payroll Tax Calculator

Enter a salary and see every line item — Social Security, Medicare, L&I, PFML, WA Cares, federal withholding — broken down for both the employee and employer side.

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True Cost to Hire Calculator

Thinking about hiring? This shows the real first-year cost — salary plus every employer tax, benefit, PTO cost, equipment, and training hour. Most employers underestimate by 20-30%.

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These tools are genuinely free — no email required, no signup. If the math reveals you'd rather have someone handle this for you, that's when we talk.

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Our Risk Reversal

The 90-Day "Books Done Right" Guarantee

Work with us for 90 days. If your books aren't clean, your payroll isn't flawless, and you don't feel genuinely more in control of your finances — we'll work for free until they are. No contracts to escape. No fine print. No hassle.

We can offer this because in years of doing this, we've never had to. But you shouldn't have to be the one taking the risk.

What We Do

Full-Service Accounting for Tri-Cities Businesses

Bookkeeping, payroll, and tax services for small businesses across Pasco, Kennewick, Richland, and West Richland, WA.

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Bookkeeping

Monthly books so clean you could hand them to a banker — because someday you might need to.

  • Monthly bank & credit card reconciliations
  • Transaction classing & categorization
  • WA State DOR reports — filed on time, every time
  • Monthly P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow statements
  • Catch-up bookkeeping (we've seen worse, we can fix it)
  • Year-end financial package ready for your tax preparer
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Payroll

Your team gets paid accurately, on time, with every tax handled — zero spreadsheets required from you.

  • Payroll processing with direct deposit
  • All payroll tax payments & quarterly filings
  • PTO accrual tracking & reporting
  • Time tracking system setup & integration
  • Commission & bonus calculations
  • Workers' comp & L&I audit support
  • New hire reporting & W-2/1099 filing
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Tax

Personal and business tax prep that finds every legal deduction — and plans ahead so next year is even better.

  • Personal income tax (Form 1040)
  • Business returns (1120S, 1065, 1120)
  • Proactive tax planning — not just April scrambling
  • Deduction & credit optimization
  • Estimated tax strategy for self-employed
  • Year-round availability (yes, even in July)

Not sure what you need? Start with a free consultation — we'll tell you straight what's worth paying for and what isn't.

Not sure what you need?

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A Real Transformation

What It Looks Like When the Numbers Finally Click

Before

Stressed, Behind, and Guessing

  • 😰 Books 4+ months behind at any given time
  • 📭 DOR reports filed late — penalties adding up
  • 🧮 Payroll calculated manually in Excel — errors every cycle
  • 📂 Tax prep meant 3 days of scrambling and a shoebox of receipts
  • 🤷 "I have no idea if I'm making or losing money month to month"
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After 90 Days With Steadfast

In Control and Confident

  • ✅ Books reconciled within 5 days of month-end — every month
  • ✅ DOR reports filed automatically — zero penalties since
  • ✅ Payroll runs on autopilot — employees paid accurately, every cycle
  • ✅ Tax return filed in February — refund in the bank by March
  • ✅ "I open my P&L and actually understand it. I can plan ahead now."

This is a composite based on real Tri-Cities clients. Your transformation will look different — but the pattern is the same: chaos → clarity → confidence.

Don't Just Take Our Word For It

What Tri-Cities Business Owners Say

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Steadfast took our books from four months behind to fully caught up in three weeks. For the first time, I can open QuickBooks and actually know what I'm looking at. Willson caught a duplicate charge from our vendor that saved us $840 — that alone paid for the service.
SKNN Aesthetics Medical Spa · Tri-Cities, WA
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Payroll used to eat half my Friday, every Friday. Now I literally don't think about it. Taxes filed, PTO tracked, L&I handled. The first month I didn't have to touch a spreadsheet felt like getting a day of my life back.
Inland Apex Leadership Co. Professional Services · Pasco, WA
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My last accountant returned maybe one in three calls. Willson picks up the phone. When I had a question about a 1099 in November — not even tax season — he answered it same-day. That's never happened to me with an accountant before.
Sidekick Recruiting LLC Recruiting · Kennewick, WA

Want to talk to a current client before you decide? We'll connect you. Just ask. Request an intro →

Ready to get your numbers in order?

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Who We Work With

Built for the Businesses That Build the Tri-Cities

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Construction & Contractors

DOR franchise fees, worker classification, L&I audits, progress billing, job costing — we know construction accounting inside and out.

  • DOR exemptions
  • L&I management
  • Job costing
  • 1099s for subs
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Medical & Aesthetics

Medical spas, clinics, and wellness businesses have unique revenue cycles, equipment financing, and compliance needs. We handle the numbers so you can focus on patients.

  • Equipment depreciation
  • Payroll for clinicians
  • Sales tax on services
  • QBI optimization
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Professional Services

Consultants, attorneys, recruiters, and service-based businesses need clean books, accurate quarterly estimates, and smart entity structures.

  • S-Corp elections
  • Quarterly estimates
  • Home office deductions
  • Cash flow planning
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Non-Profits

Separate rules, separate reporting, separate headaches. We understand fund accounting, grant tracking, and Form 990 preparation.

  • Form 990
  • Fund accounting
  • Grant tracking
  • Board reporting
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Retail & E-Commerce

Inventory tracking, sales tax across channels, merchant fees, and seasonal cash flow. We keep your margins visible so you know what's actually profitable.

  • Inventory valuation
  • Multi-channel sales tax
  • COGS tracking
  • Margin analysis
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Agriculture & Trades

Farms, orchards, and trade businesses have specific WA tax treatments, seasonal payroll, and equipment depreciation needs.

  • Schedule F
  • Seasonal payroll
  • Equipment depreciation
  • Fuel tax credits

Don't see your industry? Reach out anyway — if we're not the right fit, we'll refer you to someone who is.

The Cost of Waiting

What Happens When the Numbers Slide?

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Penalties You Can't Deduct

A late DOR filing costs 9% interest + 39% penalty on the tax owed. A missed 1099? $260 per form. These aren't tax-deductible — they come straight out of your pocket.

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Cash Flow Blindsides

Without current books, you can't see that slow month coming. The quarterly tax surprise. The invoice that never got sent. Clean books are an early warning system.

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The Hidden Time Tax

The average small business owner spends 80-120 hours per year on accounting tasks. That's 2-3 full work weeks you're not selling, serving customers, or being with your family.

The DIY Path

  • Dreading tax season every year
  • Guessing at cash flow month to month
  • Reconciling at 11 PM after the kids are asleep
  • Wondering if payroll taxes are right
  • Penalty letters from WA State DOR
  • No idea what you'll owe until April

With Steadfast

  • Tax-ready 365 days a year
  • P&L in your inbox by the 5th of every month
  • Books done — you never touch QuickBooks
  • Payroll on autopilot — zero spreadsheets
  • DOR filed before the deadline, every time
  • You know your tax bill before it arrives

Questions, Answered

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on what you need — but we'll tell you the price before any work starts, not after. Bookkeeping starts around $200-400/month for a small business. Payroll varies by employee count and pay frequency. Tax returns depend on entity type and complexity.

The free consultation includes a written quote with exact pricing. No hidden fees, no surprise invoices. If you're paying more than that with your current accountant, we'll show you exactly what you'd save by switching.

We're based in the Tri-Cities (Pasco/Kennewick/Richland) and that's where most of our clients are. We do work with businesses across WA State since the tax landscape is the same. For out-of-state clients, we'll talk — but we may refer you to someone local to you if it's a better fit.

Yes — and you're not the first one in this situation. We do catch-up bookkeeping as a specialty. Whether you're 3 months or 3 years behind, we'll get your books cleaned up, filed, and current. Then we make sure they stay that way.

This is actually one of our most common engagements. Bring us whatever you have — a shoebox, a broken QuickBooks file, or a half-finished spreadsheet. We've seen worse.

QuickBooks Online is our primary platform — we're ProAdvisor certified. For payroll, we use QuickBooks Payroll or Gusto depending on your needs. For tax prep, we use professional-grade software (Drake/Lacerte).

If you're already on different software, we can usually work with it or help you migrate. We do not force you onto a platform that doesn't fit your business.

Yes. Same-day callback guarantee for all clients — leave a message or send a text, and you'll hear back the same business day. No call centers, no being passed off to an assistant who doesn't know your situation.

If your current accountant takes 3+ days to respond (or doesn't respond at all), that's exactly the problem we built Steadfast to solve.

Maybe — it depends on your profit level, salary needs, and long-term plans. The general rule of thumb: once your business profit exceeds $50,000-60,000/year, S-Corp election often saves enough in self-employment tax to justify the added payroll cost.

Don't guess, though — use our calculator to see the exact numbers, then bring the results to a consultation and we'll validate them with your real situation.

Work with us for 90 days. If your books aren't clean, your payroll isn't flawless, and you don't feel genuinely more in control of your finances — we'll work for free until they are. No contracts to escape. No fine print.

We can offer this because in years of doing this, we've never had to. But you shouldn't have to be the one taking the risk.

It's easier than you think. Here's the process:

1. Free consultation — we review where you are and what's needed.
2. You give notice to your current accountant (we'll help you with the language).
3. They send us your prior-year returns and records.
4. We take it from there — books, payroll, filings, everything.

Most transitions take 1-2 weeks. We've done it many times and know how to make it smooth.

Absolutely. We handle back taxes, unfiled returns, and IRS/State correspondence. The sooner you address it, the less it costs in penalties and interest. Ignoring a tax problem has never made it smaller.

Everything you tell us is confidential. We're not here to judge — we're here to fix it.

⚡ 3 spots open for Q3 2026 — we cap new client onboarding at 3 per quarter to ensure every client gets our full attention. Fill closes when spots are gone.

Let's Get Your Numbers in Order.

Book a free 30-minute consultation. We'll audit where you are now, show you exactly what's costing you time and money, and give you a written action plan — yours to keep whether we work together or not.

Email Us to Get Started → Call (509) 792-4562
Email willson@yoursteadfastaccountant.com
Location Tri-Cities, WA
Hours Mon–Fri, 9 AM – 5 PM PT
Response Same-day callback guarantee