214-997-3872
Tax · Bookkeeping · Trust Accounting

Tax preparation and accounting for individuals, businesses, and trusts.

GHL Financial Services prepares individual tax returns, supports business tax and bookkeeping needs, and maintains a specialty practice for trust tax and records.

GHL works from your records.Returns are prepared from organized records, and GHL asks for anything missing before preparation starts.
One team does the books and the return.GHL can keep a business's books, handle its payroll records, and prepare its return.
Trust returns are a specialty.GHL prepares Form 1041 returns and keeps trust books and distribution records, following the trust document.

Services

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Prepare a tax return

GHL prepares personal, corporate, partnership, and trust returns.

Bookkeeping Services

Reliable books for better business decisions — and an easier tax season.

GHL provides ongoing bookkeeping for businesses that want accurate records, useful monthly financials, and fewer surprises at filing time.

Monthly reporting

  • Profit and loss statement
  • Balance sheet
  • Reconciliation status
  • Follow-up items

Designed for ongoing business bookkeeping. This is a separate service for business clients. Personal tax preparation does not require bookkeeping.

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Trust Services

Trust records that a trustee can hand over.

Trust bookkeeping, distribution records, trustee reporting, and Form 1041 preparation. When GHL is engaged for both, the return and the annual records come from the same set of books.

Trust Bookkeeping and Trust Tax Preparation (Form 1041) are separate services. A trustee can engage GHL for either one or for both. The work and the fees are written in the Engagement Letter before work begins. GHL does not create trusts, draft trust documents, interpret their terms, or give legal advice. It can introduce the trustee to an attorney or advisor who does.

How a trust year moves

  1. Trust activity
  2. Books and categorized records
  3. Distributions and supporting documentation
  4. Form 1041 and beneficiary reporting
  5. Trustee-ready annual records

Getting started

Five steps to working together.

  1. Send an inquiry

    Tell GHL what you need, by form or by phone.

  2. Agree on scope and fees

    GHL contacts you about availability, scope and fees. Work starts only once both are agreed.

  3. Get your Secure Client Portal invite

    GHL invites you to the Secure Client Portal. Messages, requests and documents go there from then on.

  4. Sign the Engagement Letter

    The Engagement Letter, with the agreed scope and fees, is in your portal. You review and sign it there before work begins.

  5. Send your records

    Upload records to the portal, never through email or the contact form.

Sending an inquiry does not begin an engagement or any paid work.

Contact GHL

214-997-3872Mon – Fri · 9 am – 5 pm CT

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