Entrepreneurs
A Reformed Hoarder’s Guide to Records Storage
Effective record-keeping is one thing. Holding on to piles of paper is another thing altogether.
By J.D. Roth
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Business Accounting
Why You Might Want to Consider Putting Your Children on Payroll
Accountant Mark Kohler explains how putting your kids to work for your business can result in a sizable, and legal, tax write-off.
Building a Business
Last-Minute Ways to Save on Your Taxes
Consider these ideas for tax breaks on your 2011 taxes.
By Gwen Moran
Building a Business
For Help at Tax Time, a Matchmaker for Accountants
How a former Travelocity VP can help match your startup with the perfect accountant
Building a Business
Five Tips For Avoiding a Tax Audit
Before you file your taxes, watch out for these common red flags that could draw unwanted attention by the IRS.
By J.D. Roth
Building a Business
Four Online Apps That Can Be Handy Come Tax Time
Frustrated or tired of using your current accounting tool? You might want to give one of these a try.
Building a Business
A Quick Guide for ‘Solopreneurs’ at Tax Time
The tax-filing process for a one-person business can be intimidating the first time around. These tips will alert you to some of the nuances.
Business Accounting
How the Republican Presidential Candidates Stack Up on Small-Business Taxes
The Presidential candidates will likely add to their reform agendas in the weeks ahead. But here's a look at the candidates' existing small-business tax plans.
By Diana Ransom
Business Accounting
Obama Takes Aim at Corporate Taxes
The President hopes to revise the U.S. business tax code. Though the goal is to the level the playing field, there would be winners and losers.
By Diana Ransom
Building a Business
A Proposal to Expand Health-Care Tax Credits for Small Businesses
The Obama administration's 2013 budget includes a proposal to make health-care tax credits available to another 140,000 small businesses.
Building a Business
The Payroll-Tax Cut Deal Gives Obama’s Budget Hope
They called the President's budget 'dead on arrival' but new efforts to compromise in Congress may bode well for certain small-business-focused provisions.
By Diana Ransom
Building a Business
Startup America Gets a Do-Over
The President issued a new call on Congress to pass an ambitious legislative agenda to help small businesses, but some wonder whether it's just hot air.
By Diana Ransom
Building a Business
Online Sellers Brace for a New Tax Filing Requirement
Some small businesses may need to declare added income on their 2011 returns. Here's what you need to know if do business on eBay or Etsy.
By Carol Tice
Building a Business
Tips to Help You Plan Your Business Taxes in 2012
From estate planning to health care, here's how to prepare for next year's tax time.
By Carol Tice
Building a Business
Six Year-End Tax-Saving Tips
Consider these last-minute tax-saving strategies for small businesses -- before it's too late.
Building a Business
Temporary Payroll Tax Extension Passes in Time for the Holidays
The two-month temporary extension of the payroll tax cut was finally signed into law, keeping an average of $40 per paycheck in the pocket of working Americans.
Building a Business
Millionaire’s Tax Could Stall Small-Business Jobs Engine (Opinion)
Policymakers fail to see how a surcharge tax on the wealthy could hurt the employment and economic growth that small businesses generate.
By Scott Shane
Building a Business
Will Repealing the 3% Withholding Tax Help Businesses Hire?
Eliminating a planned tax on government contractors is viewed as good news by business groups. But will it spur the hoped-for hiring?
By Carol Tice
Business Accounting
How to Scam-Proof Your Business
When a prospective tax scheme or business strategy sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Here are four of the most common cons that target business owners.
Business Accounting
Jobs Bill Breakup: What Will Entrepreneurs Push For?
The Senate spiked President Barack Obama's American Jobs Act. Now the question is: What may be salvaged from the bill that could still help small business?
By Carol Tice
Business Accounting
What the Jobs Act Would Hold For Small Businesses
Between cutting payroll taxes and speeding up payments to federal contractors, the President's latest plan to boost jobs, if passed, would also give a lift to small businesses.
By Diana Ransom
Building a Business
What a Payroll Tax Holiday Could Mean for Employers
President Obama is expected to propose offering to trim the amount of payroll taxes employers pay. Here are five things business owners can expect if it passes.
By Diana Ransom
Business Accounting
Looking to Pay Less in Taxes? Consider a Health Savings Account
How you can transform spending on health care into a tax-savings strategy.
Building a Business
The Startup Act: A Nonstarter?
The new proposed bill may not go anywhere, but it could at the very least ignite a national conversation about how to spark entrepreneurship.
By Diana Ransom
Business Accounting
How to Survive a Tax Audit
These five tips can help you minimize the stress of IRS scrutiny should your return raise a red flag.
Building a Business
Small Businesses Unite Against Withholding Tax
The 3 percent withholding tax due to take effect at year-end has unleashed a groundswell of opposition among business owners and advocates. Here's what they're fighting about.
By Carol Tice
Business Accounting
How to Make Sure Your Business Isn’t Paying Too Much in Sales Tax
Consider taking these three steps to avoid overpaying the tax man. Plus, the best and the worst tax states for business owners.
By Gwen Moran