If you’re having to drive for work during the pandemic, let QuickBooks Online make sure you’re recording all of your deductible mileage. Many states are starting to open for business again. If yours is one of them and this is affecting you, we hope you’re taking steps to stay healthy. We also hope that you’ve […]
Getting a Handle on Payment Issues
Most small business owners love what they do. But that’s not to say things can’t get a little difficult, especially when customers don’t pay their bills on time. Even one or two slow-pay or no-pay customers can be enough to throw your company’s finances off. Understanding what might be going on with your customers and […]
Tax Witching Hour
As many of you who trade securities know, a stock witching hour is the last hour of trading on the third Friday of each month as options and futures expire. There are triple and quadruple witching hours depending on the number of securities and markets expiring. Due to the coronavirus, we potentially have a sextuplet […]
Growing Pains: Structural Considerations for Growing Your Business
Ask any small-business owner what he sees as the major challenges to growing his business, and chances are he’ll say: winning more sales. Ask any medium- or large-business owner what her major challenges have been, however, and she’ll probably say: structural growing pains — putting into place the necessary processes and structure to accommodate a […]
Can I Still Claim my Child?
The ‘Dependent Question’ and the Complicated Answer At what point do you have to stop listing your child as a dependent on your tax return? The answer is not an easy one. Below is an introduction to the IRS rules on claiming a dependent, and how they affect your situation. You want to continue to […]
Understanding Sales Tax in the Post-Wayfair World
If your business operates in two or more taxing jurisdictions, the Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair applies to you. In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided South Dakota v. Wayfair. Since then, businesses that operate in two or more of the nation’s 10,000-plus tax jurisdictions have been struggling to understand what they need […]