Bookkeeping & Payroll Services in Maryville, TN

Maryville, Alcoa, and all of Blount County, from the airport to the foot of the Smokies.

P&L Business Services provides bookkeeping, payroll, and tax preparation for businesses in Maryville, Alcoa, and across Blount County. We have been doing this work for 35 years, 28 of them in Tennessee.

Most of what we do happens digitally, so where you are matters less than it used to. What matters more is knowing how Tennessee’s local filings work where you are, and in Blount County that depends on which side of a city line your business sits.

We bill hourly. You pay for the work you actually need, not a package built around someone else’s business.

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What We Handle

Bookkeeping

Bank, loan, and credit card reconciliation
Financial statements
Accounts payable and receivable

Payroll

Payroll tax filing
Quarterly returns, including 941s, 940s, and SUTA
W-2s and 1099s
Sales tax filing

Tax

Tax preparation
Tennessee business tax filing
Tangible personal property returns
Registered agent services

What We Know About Blount County

Blount County business looks simple from the outside. The filings are where it gets local.

Maryville and Alcoa are two different cities.

They share a border, a main road, and plenty of customers, but not a city business tax. A business on one side of the line owes city business tax to a different city than its neighbor across the street, and a business outside both owes the county’s alone. We sort that out first.

A lot of Blount County business is seasonal.

The road into the Smokies runs through here, and the businesses that serve those visitors run on a calendar: busy months, slow months, and a payroll that changes with them. We bill hourly, so a slow month costs less.

You get a person, not a ticket.

When you call about a Blount County return, you reach someone who already knows your business. There is no queue and no case number.

Remote whenever you want it.

Documents come to us through our secure client portal or email. Meeting in person is an option you can use when you need it, not an obligation.

Who We Work With

We work with businesses across Maryville, Alcoa, and Blount County, from owner-operators doing the books on Sunday night to established companies with a full payroll.

That includes trades and contractors, title companies, salons, dental practices, physical therapy clinics, cleaning companies, artists and content creators, and chambers of commerce. See who we serve.

If you are not sure whether you are the right fit, call and ask. It is a short conversation either way.

Serving Maryville and the Surrounding Area

Our Blount County clients are spread from Maryville and Alcoa out to Friendsville, Louisville, Rockford, Townsend, and Walland, and across the wider region to Knoxville, Oak Ridge, and Clinton.

Common Questions from Maryville Business Owners

Do you have an office in Maryville?

No. Our office is in Oak Ridge, and it moves to downtown Clinton in December 2026. Most of our Blount County clients work with us digitally, and we meet in person when it helps.

My business is in Alcoa, not Maryville. Does that matter?

For city business tax, yes. Alcoa and Maryville are separate cities, and each one collects its own. Tell us your address and we will confirm which filings apply before anything is due.

Which Tennessee filings do you handle?

Annual city and county business tax returns, monthly sales tax filings, tangible personal property returns, annual franchise and excise tax returns, and quarterly payroll tax returns. We also serve as registered agent, which keeps your LLC from being administratively dissolved because a notice went to an old address or the circular file.

Do I need a CPA or a bookkeeper?

For most businesses, a bookkeeper handles the ongoing work — recording transactions, reconciling accounts, running payroll, filing sales and business tax returns, and producing financial statements. A CPA is typically brought in for audits, complex tax strategy, or certified financial statements. We handle bookkeeping, payroll, and tax preparation, and we will tell you plainly if something needs a CPA. We work directly with several CPAs and will refer you to them.

How do you charge?

We bill hourly. We do not sell packages, because most businesses do not need the same amount of work every month and we would rather not charge you for hours you did not use.