Food truck accounting — built for mobile, multi-jurisdiction operators.
Multi-city sales tax, event vs catering revenue separation, commissary fees, and the truck depreciation math that interacts with Section 179.
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Food trucks are the most jurisdictionally complex small business there is. You serve in Castle Rock on Tuesday, Denver on Wednesday, Aurora on Thursday — and each has its own sales tax rate and licensing rules. Add catering events, festival permits, and a commissary lease, and the accounting needs to handle every layer.
We work with single-truck operators and multi-truck commissary-based operations.
What we handle
- Multi-jurisdiction sales tax — license per home-rule city you serve, file each correctly.
- Event vs regular service revenue separated for margin analysis.
- Commissary fees tracked properly as direct cost.
- Truck and equipment depreciation — Section 179, bonus depreciation.
- Catering deposits as deferred revenue until event date.
A food truck operator was serving Denver, Aurora, and Boulder weekly without a sales-tax license in any of them — assuming SUTS covered everything. Voluntary disclosure cost $2,200 in back tax plus minor penalties. Operating without licenses for another year would have been 4x worse.
If you serve home-rule cities (Denver, Aurora, Boulder, etc.), you need licenses there.
If you do catering events, deferred revenue accounting on deposits is required.
If you run multiple trucks, per-truck P&L tells you which is profitable.
Multi-city tax handled, event revenue clean, catering deposits accounted right.
From $400/month.
Frequently asked questions
How do you handle home-rule cities?
License each city where you serve, file each city's return on its schedule. We map your service footprint quarterly.
Truck depreciation?
Most fully built-out trucks above 6,000 lbs qualify for Section 179 plus bonus, expensed in year 1 to limits.
Catering deposits?
Booked as a liability when collected, recognized as revenue at event date.
Software?
Square or Clover for POS. Toast if you scale. Sync to QuickBooks Online.