Send it at 6pm.
Review it at 9am.
Indefine is the India back office US CPA firms lean on for outsourced tax preparation, bookkeeping and audit support. Qualified accountants pick up your work overnight, so returns and books are ready for your review when the office opens.
|800+ businesses served since 2020
The staffing gap is real. The deadlines do not move.
Skilled preparers are hard to hire in the US, and busy season does not wait. An India back office gives you trained capacity that costs less, works while you sleep, and treats your client data with care.
Cut cost, not quality
Access qualified accountants at India rates. Firms typically save up to 60 to 70 percent on delivery cost versus in-house preparers, without cutting corners on review.
A 9.5-hour head start
India runs about 9.5 hours ahead of US Eastern time. Hand off work at end of day and it comes back prepared by morning — real overnight turnaround in busy season.
Your data, handled with care
Signed NDAs, access on a need-to-know basis, and work done inside your systems. Client confidentiality is treated as seriously as you treat it yourself.
The back-office work that eats your firm’s hours.
Pick the pieces you want off your plate. Every engagement runs on a maker-checker basis, in your software, under your firm’s review.
Individual tax returns
Personal and family 1040 preparation — document collection, data entry, form completion and review-ready drafts.
Business tax returns
C-corp, S-corp and partnership returns prepared end to end, including multi-state and catch-up filings.
Bookkeeping and reconciliation
Clean, current books in QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho Books or Sage — transactions recorded, accounts reconciled, year-end ready.
Audit support
Working papers, lead schedules, data validation, financial statement prep and internal-control testing to GAAP and IFRS.
Payroll and sales tax
Payroll processing and reconciliation, plus sales-tax preparation and filing support across states.
A dedicated team
Need steady capacity? Get a dedicated, multi-skilled pod that learns your workflows and integrates into your process.
Your clients’ data, treated like ours.
Outsourcing only works if the data is safe. We build our engagements around disciplined access control and confidentiality — the same standards we apply to our own clients’ books.
We do not claim certifications we do not hold. Ask us for our current security posture and we will walk you through exactly how your work is handled.
- Signed NDAs on every engagement
- Access granted on a need-to-know basis, per preparer
- We work inside your systems and software, not around them
- Encrypted file transfer for document exchange
- A maker-checker review before anything comes back to you
Prove it on a paid pilot before you scale.
No long contract to find out if we are a fit. Start with a small, real batch, judge the output, then decide how much to hand over.
Scope the pilot
Pick a real, contained batch — a handful of returns or a month of books. We agree scope, software access and turnaround up front.
We staff and deliver
A dedicated preparer or pod works inside your software, with a second reviewer on every file. You get review-ready output, not raw drafts.
You review, then decide
Check the work and the supporting references. Happy with it? We scale up — from overflow help to a standing back-office team.
What CPA firms ask before they start.
What work can you take on during tax season?
Individual 1040 returns, business returns on 1120, 1120-S and 1065, bookkeeping and reconciliation, audit support such as working papers and financial statement preparation, and payroll and sales-tax work. You choose which pieces to hand over — overflow during the crunch, or a standing back-office team year round.
Which software do you work in?
We work inside your existing stack rather than forcing a migration. For bookkeeping that includes QuickBooks, Xero, Zoho Books and Sage; for tax and audit we work in the preparation software your firm already uses. Give us access the way you would a remote team member.
How does the overnight turnaround work?
India runs about 9.5 hours ahead of US Eastern time. You hand off a batch at end of your day, our team prepares it overnight, and it is back for your review the next morning. During busy season that extra shift is often the difference between meeting a deadline and missing it.
How do you protect our clients’ data?
Every engagement is covered by a signed NDA, access is granted on a need-to-know basis per preparer, and we work inside your systems with encrypted file transfer. We do not claim certifications we do not hold — ask us and we will walk you through our current security posture in detail.
Do we have to sign a long contract?
No. Start with a paid pilot — a small, real batch of work — so you can judge the quality before committing. If it works, we scale from overflow support to a dedicated pod. If it does not, you have lost nothing but a pilot.
Tell us what is stretched.
A short call, then a scoped pilot on a real batch of your work. We will map exactly what your firm can hand off and how the overnight desk would run it — no long contract.
Want the wider picture first? See tax services, audit and assurance or contact us directly.