- Las Vegas, NV Tax Specialist & CPA Advisory Firm
CPA FOR DENTISTS IN LAS VEGAS
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With over a decade of experience in the financial sector, Managing Partner Matt Bontrager has seen firsthand how even the savviest investors and business owners miss out on significant tax-saving opportunities simply because they lack the right financial guidance. He founded TrueBooks to provide that guidance and help you turn your tax liabilities into investment opportunities and has helped his clients cut their tax bills with top-tier service and innovative ideas.
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Collections may come from insurance reimbursements, patient payments, membership plans, financing providers, and other sources, while payroll and clinical overhead can consume a large portion of revenue.
Dentists operating through an LLC, professional entity, or S corporation need to coordinate wages, distributions, retirement contributions, and business profit carefully.
Imaging systems, operatories, supplies, lab bills, merchant fees, continuing education, software, and staff compensation should all be categorized accurately.
We connect your dental practice income with taxes, retirement planning, real estate, investments, practice debt, expansion, and eventual ownership transition.
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SPECIALIZED TAX STRATEGY
Dental practice owners deal with collections, payroll, equipment, associate compensation, retirement plans, owner distributions, practice debt, and large recurring overhead.
Practice profit, owner wages, equipment purchases, retirement contributions, and entity structure can all materially affect the dentist’s tax position.
Planning before equipment purchases, hiring an associate, adding a partner, or selling a practice is far more useful than reacting afterward.
Collections, payroll, lab fees, supplies, equipment, debt, merchant processing, owner distributions, and retirement contributions need clean records.
Tax guidance should align with practice growth, personal income, real estate, investments, retirement goals, and eventual practice succession.
HOW WE HELP
We help dentists evaluate practice profit, owner compensation, deductions, equipment purchases, retirement contributions, and other decisions before year-end.
We review whether the practice’s current LLC, professional entity, partnership, or S corporation tax structure still fits its revenue, ownership, and growth plans.
For dentist owners taking wages and distributions, we help coordinate reasonable compensation, payroll, retirement contributions, and practice cash flow.
We help plan around purchases such as CBCT systems, digital scanners, X-ray equipment, chairs, sterilization equipment, computers, and office buildouts.
We help practices account for owner payroll, hygienists, dental assistants, front-office staff, associate dentists, bonuses, and related payroll costs.
We help practice owners evaluate 401(k), profit-sharing, SEP, SIMPLE, cash balance, and other retirement strategies based on income and staffing.
We help organize collections, insurance deposits, patient payments, payroll, lab fees, supplies, merchant fees, equipment, rent, software, and practice debt.
We help dentists plan around hiring associates, expanding operatories, opening another location, purchasing equipment, or acquiring another practice.
We help evaluate tax considerations around practice purchases, partner buy-ins, ownership changes, goodwill, equipment allocation, and eventual practice sales.
Tax planning connects directly with accurate business and personal tax filing rather than sitting as separate advice.
STRATEGY CONSIDERATIONS
A profitable dental practice may need to coordinate owner wages, distributions, payroll taxes, retirement contributions, and reasonable compensation.
Large purchases such as imaging equipment, scanners, treatment chairs, and office improvements should be planned around cash flow and expected taxable income.
High-income dentists may have opportunities to use 401(k), profit-sharing, or advanced retirement plans to build wealth while managing taxable income.
Associate production pay, hygiene payroll, bonuses, benefits, and owner compensation can materially affect practice profitability and tax planning.
Adding partners, acquiring another office, purchasing real estate, or selling to another dentist or DSO can create significant tax consequences.
RELATED SERVICES
Proactive tax planning before year-end, equipment purchases, ownership changes, and other major practice decisions.
Accurate federal and state tax filing for dental practice owners and their businesses.
Clean financial reporting for collections, payroll, practice expenses, equipment, and other business activity.
Payroll support for dentist owners, associates, hygienists, assistants, and administrative staff.
Tax planning, accounting, and advisory support for healthcare practices and medical business owners.
Comprehensive tax strategy for entrepreneurs, professional practices, and growing business owners.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A CPA for dentists can help with tax planning, bookkeeping, payroll, entity structure, owner compensation, equipment purchases, retirement planning, practice acquisitions, and tax preparation.
For a practice owner, that means looking beyond the tax return and coordinating decisions involving the practice throughout the year.
Dental practices often combine high owner income with large payroll costs, expensive clinical equipment, laboratory expenses, supplies, financing, and significant fixed overhead.
That creates planning issues that are very different from those of a simple professional services business.
S corporation taxation may make sense for some profitable dental practices, but the decision depends on practice income, ownership, reasonable compensation, payroll costs, retirement planning, and administrative requirements.
The structure should be evaluated using the practice’s actual financial numbers.
Common dental practice expenses may include:
Accurate categorization makes both tax planning and profitability analysis more useful.
Dental practices frequently make large purchases involving CBCT systems, digital scanners, X-ray equipment, treatment chairs, sterilization equipment, computers, and office improvements.
The timing and tax treatment of those purchases should be evaluated alongside practice profit, financing, cash flow, and expected future income.
Depending on the practice, dentists may evaluate options such as a 401(k), profit-sharing plan, SEP IRA, SIMPLE IRA, cash balance plan, or defined benefit plan.
Employee count, staff compensation, owner income, age, and desired contribution levels can all affect which option makes sense.
Yes.
Dental practice transactions can involve goodwill, patient records, equipment, working capital, real estate, financing, and different allocations of the purchase price.
Reviewing the tax impact before the transaction is finalized can help the buyer or seller understand the potential after-tax outcome.
Ideally, throughout the year and especially before major practice decisions.
That includes buying equipment, hiring an associate, changing entity structure, adding a partner, opening another office, buying a practice, purchasing real estate, or preparing to sell the practice.
