One CPA for Lake County small business.
Monthly bookkeeping, tax preparation, and year-round planning for small businesses across the county, the Golden Triangle, Leesburg and the western lake towns, and the corridor down US 441. Based in Mount Dora. This is my home county, not a territory on a franchise map. Florida-licensed CPA.
Lake County at a glance
From the Green Swamp to the Ocala National Forest. My home market.
Lake County stretches from the Green Swamp in the south to the Ocala National Forest in the north, with more than 400,000 residents, its county seat in Tavares, and some of the fastest small-business growth in Central Florida. The economy runs on building trades and home services, lakefront tourism and marinas across the Harris Chain of Lakes, nurseries and grove operations, downtown retail and restaurants in Mount Dora, Eustis, and Leesburg, and a growing professional-services layer in the north. I’m based in Mount Dora, right in the middle of it.
400,000+
Residents
1887
County founded
Tavares
County seat
~40 min
Max drive from my office
Accounting services
For the contractor in Leesburg, the marina on the Harris Chain, and the S-Corp in Mount Dora.
Whether you run a trades crew, a lakefront business, a downtown storefront, or a household planning its retirement income, here’s what I do.
Monthly bookkeeping
CPA-managed, start to finish.
Secure portal, bank integrations, and clean books kept by a CPA, not a bookkeeping mill. Month-to-month, no long-term contract. Job-cost detail for contractors, seasonal tracking for tourism.
Tax preparation
Same CPA, books and return.
Individual and business returns, S-Corp, LLC, sole proprietor, partnership, Schedule F for agricultural operations, prepared and signed by the same CPA who kept the books.
Retirement planning
Built for Lake County households.
The county’s large 55+ population means RMDs, Roth conversion timing, Social Security taxation, and IRMAA-aware Medicare planning, handled alongside or after your business years, by the same CPA.
The short answer
I’m a one-person CPA firm based in Mount Dora, and Lake County is my home market. I keep the books and prepare the return myself, and every client gets a secure portal with real-time dashboards and automatic bank sync. Every engagement is custom-built for the business and scoped on a discovery call. One CPA on both the books and the return, never more than about 40 minutes away.
Why local matters
Four things a Lake County business has to get right.
The Golden Triangle
Mount Dora, Eustis, and Tavares. My backyard.
My office is in Mount Dora, and the Golden Triangle is where I meet clients in person most often: downtown retail and restaurants, festival-season vendors, and the lakefront businesses working the Harris Chain. Seasonal cash-flow planning around festival calendars is a monthly-close habit here, not an afterthought.
Leesburg & the 441 Corridor
The west side and the growth corridor.
Leesburg and the western lake towns anchor the other half of my county work, with the corridor down US 441 adding some of the fastest small-business growth in Central Florida. Building trades and home services, downtown shops, and the professional-services layer growing alongside The Villages spillover in the north. I keep books for all of it.
Sales Tax, County Edition
The 7% line on every Lake County receipt.
Florida's 6% state sales tax plus Lake County's 1% discretionary surtax applies to most taxable sales, and short-term stays carry the county tourist development tax on top. Getting the DR-15s filed correctly and on schedule is part of the monthly close, not a scramble when the notice arrives.
One CPA, Books to Return
My home county, not a franchise territory.
Lake County is where I live and work, not a territory on a franchise map. The model is one person: CPA-managed bookkeeping and a tax return prepared by the same CPA who kept the books, scoped to each business. Nowhere in the county is more than about 40 minutes from my desk.
Rooted in Lake County
A county built around its lakes.
Swamp to Forest
Lake County runs from the Green Swamp in the south to the Ocala National Forest in the north, more than 400,000 residents and some of the fastest small-business growth in Central Florida in between.
Founded 1887
The county was founded in 1887 with its seat in Tavares, where the courthouse, county records, and business filings live. Entity formations, permits, and real-estate closings all run through the middle of my service area.
Harris Chain of Lakes
Lake Harris, Lake Eustis, Lake Dora, and the chain that links them anchor the county’s marinas, lakefront hospitality, and tourism economy, seasonal businesses with seasonal books.
What makes me different
Most Lake County firms still run on paper. I built something different.
Most accounting offices in the area still operate on paper forms, phone calls, and once-a-year check-ins. I built a modern platform from scratch, and I use it with every client.
Secure client portal
Upload, view, track, from anywhere.
Documents, reports, and real-time financials accessible from any device. No email attachments, no fax machines, no lost paperwork.
Bank integrations
Transactions sync automatically.
Plaid-powered connections pull transactions nightly, so your books stay current without a shoebox of receipts or a manual data-entry pass at year-end.
Real-time dashboards
See your numbers whenever you want.
P&L, cash flow, and expense breakdowns available any day of the month, not just when I send a PDF. Curious in the middle of July? Log in.
Free financial tools
Calculators for the questions you ask yourself.
S-Corp savings, quarterly estimated tax, 1099 vs W-2 comparison, all free, no signup required. Run the numbers before you call me.
No other CPA firm serving Lake County combines this caliber of CPA work with this level of modern client tooling.
Services & pricing
Custom engagements, priced on a call.
Book a discovery call and I’ll walk you through what the engagement would look like, or explore the core services below.
Every engagement
Custom-built
scoped on your discovery call
Bookkeeping in Lake County
Looking for a Lake County bookkeeper? You already are.
Most Lake County small businesses end up paying twice, once for a bookkeeper, then again for a CPA at tax time to clean up the bookkeeper's work. I'm a Florida CPA who also does your monthly bookkeeping, so it's one person on both sides.
Books run on Forty Two Six, my in-house bookkeeping platform, no QuickBooks subscription. Custom engagement, scoped on your discovery call. See the full bookkeeping service →
“Found Tim on Google, he returned my intro email within an hour and my taxes were filed later that same day.”
Najay R, Google Review
Questions I hear across Lake County
Frequently asked questions.
How much does a small business CPA cost in Lake County?
I scope every engagement to the business it serves. What a trades crew in Leesburg needs is not what a marina on the Harris Chain needs, and the engagement should reflect the actual work. Book a discovery call at timcpa.com/contact and I'll walk you through what the engagement would look like.
Which Lake County cities do you serve?
All of them, with dedicated pages for Mount Dora (home base), Eustis, Tavares, and Leesburg. Umatilla, Fruitland Park, Lady Lake, Howey-in-the-Hills, Astatula, Grand Island, Sorrento, and the rest of the county are equally in range, the portal covers the distance, and I'm never more than about 40 minutes away.
What kinds of Lake County businesses do you work with?
Building trades and home services, marinas and lakefront hospitality on the Harris Chain, grove and nursery operations, downtown retail and restaurants, medical and professional practices, and S-Corp owner-operators. The common thread: owner-run businesses that want one CPA on both the books and the return.
Is there a sales tax specific to Lake County?
Florida's 6% state sales tax plus Lake County's 1% discretionary surtax applies to most taxable sales (7% combined), and short-term lodging carries the county tourist development tax on top. Filing frequency and exemptions depend on your mix, keeping the DR-15s right is part of the monthly close.
Can you take over from my current bookkeeper or CPA mid-year?
Yes, mid-year transitions are routine. I pick up the books where they stand, run a cleanup pass if needed (scoped up front), and the monthly close takes over from there. Your prior records stay intact and portable.
Do you only work with businesses, or households too?
Both. Lake County's demographics mean plenty of households need retirement-income planning, RMDs, Roth conversion timing, Social Security taxation, IRMAA, alongside or after their business years. Same CPA, same portal.
Ready for a Lake County CPA who picks up the phone?
Book a discovery call and we’ll figure out what your business needs. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll say so, and point you somewhere better.
Tim
More reading
Curious what accounting help actually costs here? Read my local guide: How Much Does a CPA Cost in Lake County, FL? with the local ranges for bookkeeping, tax preparation, and advisory.
Want the city-level detail? See my pages for Mount Dora, Eustis, Tavares, Leesburg, Groveland, and Apopka.
Timothy LeGendre CPA LLC | Florida CPA License #AC62625 (firm #AD72267) | Mount Dora, FL | (407) 417-1064 | Contact