Recovered in credits the group had no idea it qualified for. The owner's part of the process: a few documents.

A fine-dining restaurant group with tipped staff across several rooms. Payroll was running correctly and the returns were filed on time — but Form 8846 had never been filed, so the FICA Tip Credit had never been claimed. Nobody in the business knew the credit existed, which is the ordinary case rather than the exception.

1. 1Reviewed payroll and reported tips across the current year and the three prior years
2. 2Established which tips sat above federal minimum wage and therefore qualified under §45B
3. 3Filed 8846 for the current year and amended returns for the back years
4. 4Documented every claim to the standard our compliance record depends on

More than $45,000 recovered, at no upfront cost to the owner — our fee came out of what was actually recovered. The group now files the credit every year as a matter of course, so the recovery repeats rather than being a one-off.