Payroll Services for Small Businesses in West Chester, OH

Launch Accounting runs payroll for small businesses across West Chester and the northern Cincinnati suburbs. We've run on the same model since the mid-1980s: a local team of CPAs and EAs, led by owner Steve Schneider, CPA, that handles payroll and files it correctly in every Ohio city your crews work. However you pay your people, you never miss a payroll, the filings are always right, and you pay a flat monthly fee that never changes.

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In Ohio, Payroll Is Where The Filings Pile Up

Running payroll is more than cutting checks. Every pay period comes with tax withholding, deposits, and filings, and in Ohio that's where it gets complicated fast.

Ohio has hundreds of municipalities with their own income tax, and when your crews work across city lines, you owe withholding and filings in each one. Get it wrong and the penalties add up quietly until a notice shows up.

  • Federal and state payroll taxes withheld, deposited, and filed on time
  • Ohio municipal withholding handled for every city your teams work in
  • Quarterly and year-end filings done right, not left to you
  • W-2s and 1099s issued at year end
  • New hire reporting handled
  • No missed deadlines, no surprise penalties

This is the part national providers get wrong most, because they don't know Ohio's local rules. We do, because we've worked in them for decades.

What Our Payroll Service Includes

  • Payroll run on your schedule, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, or monthly
  • Direct deposit for your employees
  • Federal, state, and Ohio municipal payroll tax filings
  • Quarterly and year-end payroll returns
  • W-2 and 1099 preparation and filing
  • New hire reporting
  • Coordination with your bookkeeping so payroll flows straight into the books
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How Launch Payroll Works

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Discovery

We start with a conversation to understand how you pay your people and where your crews work, and bring you a proposal.

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Onboarding

We get your payroll set up and running inside the first 30 days, with every city and filing accounted for.

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Year-Round Service

Payroll runs on schedule, the filings happen on time, and we're reachable whenever a question comes up.

Who We Run Payroll For

We run payroll for owner-operated businesses across Southwest Ohio, especially the ones with real payroll and crews on the move: contractors and the trades whose work crosses city lines, home, field, and shop-based service businesses, and owner-operated practices and small firms with staff. If you're not sure you're a fit, see the industries we serve or get in touch.

Payroll Works Best Inside The Whole Picture

Payroll doesn't sit on its own. It feeds your books, your tax filings, and your owner compensation planning. When your payroll runs with the same team that keeps your bookkeeping and handles your tax, the numbers flow straight through instead of getting re-keyed between providers. That's why most clients run payroll as part of our full-service accounting, where one West Chester team owns the whole thing.

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Why West Chester Businesses Work With Launch

We've served thousands of Southwest Ohio businesses since the mid-1980s, and our client relationships average about seven years. We're a member of the Professional Association of Small Business Accountants and QuickBooks ProAdvisor certified, and owner Steve Schneider, CPA, has been featured as a small-business accounting expert in Cincy Magazine. We know Ohio's municipal payroll rules cold, the local details out-of-state and national providers get wrong.

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