Who We Are

Black Line Group, a Think LLP company, is comprised of former Big-4 partners from the national tax practices, attorneys, CPAs, engineers, and other professionals.

We work with senior business leaders and CPA firms to deliver specialized tax services that yield significant tax savings and refunds.

Since 2004 we’ve served hundreds of small and medium size businesses as well as many Fortune 500 companies.

At our core, our clients appreciate and value us for our:

Focus
Integrity
Collaboration

R&D Tax Credit Experts

Tired of paying more than your fair share of taxes? What if you could reduce your tax liability AND reinvest the savings into your business to:

Be More Competitive?
Grow Faster?
Increase Profitability?

U.S. companies in more than 40 industries now claim billions of dollars in R&D Tax Credits every year.

What are you waiting for?

Employee Retention Credit “ERC”

The Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2021 signed by the President on December 27, 2020 and extended on March 12, 2021 with the signing of additional coronavirus relief states:

This fully refundable tax credit is available to companies with 500 or fewer FTEs
Employers that receive a PPP loan in 2020 or 2021 are now eligible for the ERC
Maximum benefit is $5,000 per employee in 2020 (100 or fewer employees)
Maximum benefit is $21,000 per employee in 2021 (500 or fewer employees)
Effective for wages paid from 3/13/2020 to 9/30/2021

Cost Segregation

Realize significant tax savings and cash flow improvements by identifying depreciable acquisition expenses and shortening depreciation lives. Common qualifying activities are: