Tax season, handled — all year round

Yes — real estate and construction are exactly who this tax service is built for, not a generic small-business afterthought. Through our licensed CPA/EA partners, the strategies that actually move a property or building business get worked properly: cost segregation studies to accelerate depreciation, 1031 like-kind exchanges (with the 45-day identification and 180-day closing deadlines tracked, not missed), depreciation and bonus-depreciation schedules, depreciation recapture planning when a property sells, and contractor deductions for vehicles, equipment and materials. DaxHive's job is to keep per-property and per-project books clean all year so the partner can actually claim every one of them. DaxHive coordinates the engagement and maintains tax-ready books; it does not itself provide tax or legal advice.

The biggest wins for real estate investors usually come from how losses are treated, not just from deductions — and two strategies our licensed CPA/EA partners evaluate most are Real Estate Professional Status (REPS) and the short-term-rental rules. REPS: if you (or a spouse) spend more than 750 hours a year AND more than half your total working time in real property trades, and you materially participate, rental losses can become non-passive and offset active or W-2 income instead of being trapped — it hinges on defensible, contemporaneous time logs. The short-term-rental "loophole": a rental whose average guest stay is 7 days or less isn't treated as a passive rental activity, so with material participation you can deduct losses — often amplified by a cost-segregation study and bonus depreciation — against active income without needing REPS. DaxHive keeps the per-property books, hour logs and cost records that make either strategy claimable; whether you actually qualify is a determination your licensed CPA/EA partner makes. DaxHive does not itself provide tax or legal advice.

For a contractor the biggest tax lever usually isn't a deduction — it's which accounting method your jobs are taxed under, because that decides what year the income lands in. Under Section 460 of the tax code, a long-term contract (any job you don't finish in the tax year you start it) generally has to be reported on the percentage-of-completion method: you recognize income as costs are incurred, whether or not the customer has paid you yet. The exception most contractors care about is the small-construction-contract exception — if your average annual gross receipts for the prior three years are at or under the IRS threshold ($32 million for tax years beginning in 2026, re-indexed by the IRS each year) and the contract meets the duration test, you can elect a method such as completed-contract instead and defer that income until the job closes. The 2025 federal tax law (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act) widened this further for residential construction contracts: the old four-dwelling-unit cap is gone, so larger multifamily work can qualify, and the duration test stretched to three years. Alongside the method sit the deductions contractors leave on the table — equipment and vehicle write-offs under Section 179 and bonus depreciation, and 1099s issued cleanly to your subs. Here's the part owners miss: percentage of completion is computed from the costs allocated to each contract against that contract's total estimated cost, so none of it works if your books don't track costs by job. That's DaxHive's half — job-costed books and a monthly WIP schedule kept current all year, so the numbers behind the method are actually there. Which method you qualify for and elect is a determination your licensed CPA/EA partner makes; DaxHive does not itself provide tax or legal advice.

US firms commonly quote anywhere from a few hundred dollars for a simple return to $5,000+ for multi-entity businesses. DaxHive's tax service starts from $2,000/yr (billed annually) — it covers annual federal and state filing, quarterly estimates and entity and deduction strategy through licensed CPA/EA partners, with DaxHive keeping your books tax-ready all year. Or bundle everything on MATRIX at $3,000/mo.

A licensed CPA or EA from our partner network reviews, signs and files your return — always a credentialed professional, never an unlicensed preparer. DaxHive coordinates the engagement and keeps your books clean and current so the partner has accurate numbers to file from. DaxHive itself does not provide tax or legal advice.

Yes. Quarterly federal and state estimates are part of the service — calculated by the CPA/EA partner from current books, so you're not guessing from last year's numbers. Missed or underpaid estimates are one of the most common (and most avoidable) sources of IRS penalties for owners.

That's normal — it's the most common state we find them in. DaxHive runs bookkeeping catch-up and cleanup first, then keeps the books current monthly so tax season is a handoff, not a scramble. See our bookkeeping services at /bookkeeping-services.

Yes. If you like your CPA, keep them — DaxHive keeps clean, tax-ready books year-round and hands off to your CPA at filing time. The tax subscription is for owners who want the filing coordinated end-to-end through our licensed CPA/EA partner network instead.

Yes — per-entity books and per-entity filings are exactly the setup our CPA/EA partners work with. If you hold properties across multiple LLCs, we keep each entity's ledger separate and clean, and the partner files each return accordingly.