Ledger
A 1099 / self-employed tax + bookkeeping engine, built inside the practice that uses it. Dog food, eaten.
The problem
The 1099 worker with a shoebox of receipts and a quarterly tax payment that feels like punishment. The S-corp election decision nobody walked her through. The multi-state issue she did not know she had. The IRS letter that arrived in February and lived on the kitchen counter through April. Generic bookkeeping software does not know she is self-employed. Generic tax software does not know what a 1099 worker actually owes.
The harness
Built inside the law practice that uses it — ledger.tcblaw.org, the route the practice puts most retail-tax clients on. The LL.M. in tax lives in the rules. The funnel feeds from lemmekillyourtaxes.com, the paid Lovable build that brings the 1099 worker in the door. The engine carries the year's books, the quarterly estimates, the S-corp analysis, the IRS correspondence trail. Dog food, eaten.
The result
The shoebox becomes a ledger. The quarterly payment is not a surprise anymore. The customer who used to dread April writes back in February.
Full case study in progress. Email taylor@tcblaw.org for the long version.
lemmekillyourtaxes.com.