Stop juggling a valuation firm, a tax CPA, and a fund admin for basic annual compliance. HarvardTax delivers ASC 820 portfolio valuations, Form 1065, and every K‑1 — in one engagement, from one team.
Here's what every emerging fund manager deals with every year.
You hire a firm for ASC 820 portfolio valuations. They deliver a PDF report 6–8 weeks later.
You hand the valuation report to your CPA. They re-key it into tax software, prepare the 1065, and generate K‑1s.
You chase both vendors, answer the same questions twice, reconcile discrepancies, and pray the K‑1s go out on time.
The dirty secret: Your K‑1 allocations depend on your valuations. When two separate vendors produce them independently, errors happen at the handoff. Your LPs get wrong K‑1s. You get angry emails. Nobody takes responsibility.
We do the portfolio valuations and the tax return. The numbers tie because the same team produced them. No handoffs. No reconciliation. No finger-pointing.
From fund docs to K‑1 distribution in four steps.
Upload your LPA, subscription agreements, cap table, and financial statements. Connect QuickBooks if you have it — or just send us what you've got. Our AI parses the operating agreement to extract allocation rules, partner details, and fund terms automatically.
Our valuation team — with 1,000+ valuations and Big Four pedigree — values each portfolio company using ASC 820-compliant methodologies. Latest round, OPM backsolve, DCF, market comps — whatever fits. Audit-ready documentation included.
Here's the magic: your portfolio valuations feed directly into the 1065 — unrealized gains/losses, capital account adjustments, Schedule L, M‑1, M‑2. No re-keying, no handoff, no reconciliation gaps. A licensed CPA reviews everything and e-files.
Each LP gets their individual K‑1 with properly allocated income, gains, losses, and deductions — all consistent with the valuations. Distribute via our portal, email, or download the full package.
We're not a generic accounting firm that also does valuations. We're valuation specialists who built a tax engine.
Our founder didn't just enter the valuation industry — he helped build it
Founded Greener Equity, which merged with Economics Partners and was acquired by Ryan — now a global leader in tax and valuation services.
Led Greener Equity to become Carta's exclusive 409A valuation partner, building the foundation for their in-house valuation practice.
Co-founded Preferred Returns with Jeron Paul, which became Scalar — one of the most recognized 409A valuation firms in the startup ecosystem.
Deutsche Bank M&A, Lehman Brothers FIG, Bain & Company. Our team has executed billions in transactions at the world's top institutions. Your fund gets institutional-quality valuations.
Our AI reads operating agreements, maps QuickBooks accounts to 1065 lines, and computes K‑1 allocations automatically. The CPA reviews — not re-enters — the work.
The #1 source of K‑1 errors in funds is the handoff between valuation and tax. We eliminate it entirely. Same team, same data, same engagement.
No junior analysts, no handoffs. You work directly with partners from kickoff to K‑1 delivery. Questions answered in hours, not days.
Running your first or second fund? You need audit-ready valuations and on-time K‑1s without the $30K price tag of Big Four firms.
Deal-by-deal SPVs with 20–100 investors each. You need K‑1s that tie to actual portfolio performance, not guesswork. We handle it all.
Series LLCs with multiple investment vehicles. We handle inter-series allocations, varying investor compositions, and multiple closings.
No hourly billing. No scope creep. Know your cost before you start.
1 investment, up to 25 investors
Multi-investment, up to 50 LPs
Multiple vehicles, 50+ investors
Industry data shows fund managers spend $8K–$15K on tax prep alone, plus $5K–$15K on valuations. HarvardTax bundles both from $4,999 — with better accuracy because the numbers actually tie together.
HarvardTax also prepares 1065 partnership returns for straightforward LLCs and partnerships.
Use our platform for your own clients, or join our partner network and receive prepped returns.
Connect your client's QuickBooks, review the AI-generated mappings, export a Drake-ready trial balance, and file. Prep time drops from 10 hours to 10 minutes.
We send you AI-prepped partnership returns. You review in Drake, file, and earn a professional fee. Steady deal flow without marketing.
Every return is AI-prepped and CPA-reviewed. Every valuation is senior-led and audit-ready. If our work results in an IRS penalty or audit finding, we cover the penalty and re-do the work at no cost.
Stop coordinating vendors. Get fund compliance from one team that does valuations and tax.
Or email dar@harvardtax.com — we respond within 24 hours.
Most fund admins don't do valuations at all — they refer out to third-party firms. Those firms produce a standalone report that then has to be manually integrated into your tax return. We do both, so the valuations flow directly into K‑1 allocations with zero manual handoff.
Yes. Our team has delivered 1,000+ valuations with a 100% audit success rate. We provide full documentation including methodology selection, comparable analysis, discount rates, and fair value hierarchy classification — ready for Big Four review.
We complement your fund admin, not replace them. Your admin handles capital calls, distributions, and LP communications. We handle the annual compliance that most admins don't — portfolio valuations and the tax return. Many fund admins refer these services out anyway.
Absolutely. We prepare standalone 1065 returns and K‑1s for LLCs, partnerships, and funds starting at $499. The bundle pricing is for funds that need both valuations and tax — but you can buy either service independently.
Partnership returns are due March 15 (or September 15 with extension). We can file Form 7004 extensions and work with your timeline. For new engagements starting close to the deadline, we'll file the extension first and then complete the return with the care it deserves.
No. HarvardTax handles annual compliance (valuations + tax). Your fund admin handles ongoing operations — capital calls, distributions, LP onboarding, NAV reporting. We work alongside your admin, not instead of them. If you don't have an admin, we can recommend one.