Wheaton, Illinois · DuPage County
Net Cash Pro serves Wheaton, Illinois businesses and professionals from its office at 722 Huntington Dr in neighboring Carol Stream, roughly ten minutes from the DuPage County Courthouse. The firm is led by Zahoor Hasson, EA, PMP, RMP, and has been advising DuPage County small businesses since 2006.
Wheaton is the DuPage County seat, and its business mix reflects that. A large share of the city's small businesses are professional practices: solo and small-firm attorneys, consultants, financial advisers, therapists, and the independent contractors who orbit the courthouse and the county offices. These are high-margin, low-inventory businesses, which means the tax questions are almost entirely about entity structure, reasonable compensation, and retirement contributions rather than cost of goods sold.
Our Carol Stream office is roughly a ten-minute drive from downtown Wheaton. Net Cash Pro meets Wheaton clients in person by appointment and also works remotely with clients who would rather send documents securely and meet by phone or video.
Trust accounting kept separate from operating books, cash-basis timing on contingency and retainer income, and the S-Corp reasonable-salary analysis that determines your actual self-employment tax bill.
1099 income across multiple clients, home-office and mileage substantiation that survives an audit, quarterly estimates that do not leave you with a surprise in April, and solo 401(k) or SEP planning.
Therapists, chiropractors and healthcare practices running their own books. Insurance reimbursement timing, equipment depreciation, and clean financials when a lender asks.
These are the questions Wheaton owners bring to Net Cash Pro most often. They are Illinois-specific, which is exactly where generic national tax software and out-of-state preparers tend to get things wrong.
For a profitable professional practice, the single largest lever is how income splits between W-2 salary and S-Corp distribution. Set the salary too low and the IRS can reclassify it with penalties; set it too high and you overpay self-employment tax. This is a defensible-number exercise backed by comparable data, not a rule of thumb, and it deserves an annual review as profit changes.
Illinois charges an entity-level Personal Property Replacement Tax of 1.5% on S-Corp and partnership income, on top of the 4.95% flat individual rate. For a professional practice deciding whether to elect S-Corp status, that 1.5% is a real cost that has to be weighed against the self-employment tax saved. It is frequently omitted from generic online S-Corp calculators.
Illinois permits a pass-through entity to elect to pay state income tax at the entity level, converting what would be a capped personal state-and-local-tax deduction into a fully deductible business expense. For Wheaton professionals with meaningful practice income and DuPage property tax bills, this election is often worth running the numbers on.
Once the obvious deductions are taken, a solo 401(k), SEP-IRA or defined benefit plan is usually the largest remaining lever for a profitable one-owner practice. The right plan depends on your age, profit level and whether you have employees, and the deadlines to establish one are unforgiving.
Net Cash Pro does not bill hourly. Wheaton clients get a fixed price before any work starts, so a question in September does not turn into an invoice.
Controller / CFO advisory starts at $1,995/month and includes everything in bookkeeping plus a monthly financial Scoreboard and Action Plan. See full pricing →
Judge it on four objective things rather than on advertising. First, credentials: an Enrolled Agent or CPA has unlimited rights to represent you before the IRS, while an unenrolled preparer does not. Second, a valid PTIN, which you can verify in the IRS directory. Third, year-round availability, because planning done in the fall is what lowers a bill, not data entry in April. Fourth, a fixed quote in writing before work starts. Net Cash Pro is led by an Enrolled Agent, works twelve months a year, and publishes flat fees on its pricing page.
For tax work specifically, the practical difference is smaller than most people assume. An Enrolled Agent is licensed federally by the U.S. Treasury and specialises exclusively in taxation, with unlimited rights to represent taxpayers before the IRS in audits, collections and appeals. A CPA is licensed by the state and has a broader accounting scope that includes audit and attestation work. If you need a financial statement audit or a formal attestation, you need a CPA. If you need tax preparation, tax planning and IRS representation, an EA is fully qualified.
Not necessarily, but you do want one who knows Illinois and DuPage County. Net Cash Pro is about ten minutes from downtown Wheaton in Carol Stream and meets clients in person by appointment, while also working remotely with clients who prefer to send documents securely and meet by phone or video. What matters more than the street address is whether the preparer handles Illinois entity-level taxes, the PTE election and DuPage property tax correctly.
A business return is a flat $850 for an S-Corp, C-Corp, partnership or LLC taxed as a corporation, or $550 for a sole proprietor or single-member LLC. A personal return is $225. Monthly bookkeeping starts at $495 and Controller/CFO advisory, which adds a monthly financial Scoreboard and Action Plan, starts at $1,995. Net Cash Pro does not bill hourly, so a long phone call in September does not generate an invoice.
The first 30-minute consultation is free. Bring last year's return and we will tell you plainly whether there is money being left on the table.