Tax Preparation & Business Services in Manassas, VA

LMN Tax Inc has been serving Manassas residents and business owners from the Balls Ford Road office since 2015. The mix here is wide: small business owners in restaurants, auto repair, home services, and retail; individuals with W-2 income plus side income or rental property; and people dealing with IRS notices, back taxes, or unfiled years.

A point of local detail that catches business owners regularly: the City of Manassas is an independent city under Virginia law, not a town inside Prince William County. That means the City of Manassas (where our Balls Ford Road office sits) and Prince William County administer their own separate business taxes — including BPOL (Business, Professional, and Occupational License) tax, business personal property tax, and local meals and admissions taxes. A business with a Manassas city address can have very different filing obligations than one a few miles away in Bristow, Gainesville, or Woodbridge.

We see this most often with new business owners who moved from Fairfax County or Loudoun County and assumed Virginia local taxes work the same way everywhere. They do not. The state portion (income tax, sales tax) is consistent. The local portion is not. If you are unsure whether your business is registered with the right local jurisdiction, whether you owe BPOL where you are operating, or whether meals or admissions tax applies in addition to state sales tax, ask. It is the kind of quiet issue that becomes expensive only after the first notice.

What our Manassas clients actually come to us with

The recurring patterns from Manassas residents and businesses, in the order they come up most often:

1099 income with no quarterly payments. Workers who picked up freelance, rideshare, real estate referral, or consulting income without setting aside money for taxes. April arrives with a surprise balance, Form 2210 underpayment interest, and self-employment tax that was never planned for (15.3% on net SE earnings, per IRS Publication 334). The fix is a clean individual return with proper Schedule C plus a quarterly estimated tax plan going forward (Form 1040-ES; required when expected tax owed exceeds $1,000, per IRS Publication 505).

Small business owners with messy books. Restaurants on Mathis Avenue, auto shops along Centreville Road, home services contractors running route-based businesses, and retail shops mixing personal and business bank accounts. Cleanup usually means rebuilding the year, separating personal draws from business expenses, and getting the business return on a defensible basis. We handle this through small business tax preparation and ongoing bookkeeping and payroll if monthly support is needed.

IRS notices and back taxes. CP2000 income-mismatch notices, CP14 balance-due notices, and CP59 unfiled-return notices land in Manassas mailboxes regularly. Each has a response deadline and ignoring it forecloses options. We see this enough that the response process is routine: read the notice, identify the issue, prepare the response with documentation, and submit within the deadline. Contact LMN Tax with the notice in hand and we will tell you what it actually says and what the right next step is.