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How it works

From the late list to a filed report, by email

No visits, no software to install and nothing to pay up front. You send records, we send back finished reports, and your officer files them.

The six steps

  1. Free statement

    Email your unit's name or code. Within 2 business days you get a one-page statement built from the Comptroller's public late list: each late report, its final due date, days late and our fee estimate so far.

  2. Fixed quote

    If you want the work done, we send a one-page quote and scope with a fixed price, addressed to your board if it needs to approve the spend.

  3. You send records

    For each late year, the records listed below, in any form: scans, phone photos, spreadsheets. We ask follow-up questions by email.

  4. We prepare each report

    We fill in the annual financial report for every year from your records, check the totals against your bank statements and write filing notes in the order Comptroller Connect asks for them.

  5. Your officer files

    Your officer reviews each report, signs, enters the figures in Comptroller Connect and submits. You keep the login the whole time.

  6. Invoice, net 30

    We invoice after delivery. Pay by ACH or check within 30 days. If you choose the yearly service, we remind you ahead of your next due date.

What you send us, for each late year

  • Bank statements for every account, and the checkbook or check register.
  • The treasurer's report or ledger.
  • The budget or appropriation ordinance.
  • Payroll totals, such as the W-3, if your unit pays anyone.
  • Statements for any loans or bonds.
  • The last annual financial report you filed, if you have a copy.

These follow the documents the Comptroller's own filing instructions tell units to have ready. Gaps are normal; we list what is missing and the simplest way to get it.

What you get back

  • The annual financial report for each year, prepared for your review and filing.
  • A note of how each total ties to your bank statements.
  • Filing notes, page by page, for Comptroller Connect.
  • A list of anything your records could not settle, with what we assumed and why.
  • Your next due dates, including the last day to ask for the 60-day extension.

We do not perform audits, log in as you or give legal or accounting advice.

SAMPLEFictional unit. Example Township is not a real local government. The fee figures use the real schedule in the law.

Sample, fictional data

What the free statement looks like

Your own statement is built from your unit's lines on the Comptroller's late list. We send it as a short email you can forward to your board.

Late report statement

Example Township

Unit code 000/000/00 (fictional), Example County, Illinois. From the Comptroller's late list dated October 13, 2026.

SAMPLE
FICTIONAL

Late reports on the list

Late reports for Example Township, with days late and fee estimates
ReportFinal due dateDays lateFee estimate
Fiscal 2025 annual financial reportSept. 27, 2025381US$7,170
Fiscal 2024 annual financial reportSept. 27, 2024746no daily fee
Fiscal 2023 annual financial reportSept. 27, 20231,112no daily fee
US$7,170

Fee estimate so far, before any reduction, rising about US$20 a day while the fiscal 2025 report stays unfiled.

How we worked it out

Example Township's fiscal year ends March 31, so each report is due 180 days later, on September 27. No extension was requested. The law lets the Comptroller charge US$5 a day for days 1 to 15 past due, US$10 for days 16 to 30, US$15 for days 31 to 45 and US$20 from day 46, and to reduce those amounts. The Comptroller's fines FAQ says fees apply to fiscal 2025 reports and later. The 2023 and 2024 reports carry no daily fee, but they are still listed as late, and the Comptroller can order an audit of a unit whose reports stay unfiled and bill the unit for it.

What catching up takes

For each of the three years: bank statements, the treasurer's report, the budget or appropriation ordinance and the last report filed. Catch-up of up to three late years is a fixed US$2,000 to 4,500, quoted in writing before we start, invoiced after delivery, net 30.

Sources: the Comptroller's late list, the Comptroller's fines FAQ, 50 ILCS 310/4. Every fee figure is an estimate, before any reduction.

Your statement

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