Get The Best Tax Resources Here

Written by Maria Marsala


Where can a business owner obtain tax information? When you don't know what questions to ask, it's very helpful to take some classes, and read a few articles prior to visiting with a CPA. Enjoy these resources:

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) The IRS hasrepparttar best free classes around! Call your local office to find out whenrepparttar 106513 home business or sole proprietorship classes are held. The home business class is a half-day class;repparttar 106514 sole proprietorship class is a full day. The difference between these two classes --repparttar 106515 extra half day -- is spent dealing with employee tax information. Take a class every year. Expenses are deductible and I bet you will learn quite a few things each year.

Web site at http://www.ustreas.gov/, or call toll free (800) 829-3676. Ask for Business Kit Publication 454 and STEP Publication 1057 (Small Business Tax Education Program). Tell them what type of organization you are considering, how many employees you will have, etc., so they can send you other free helpful publications. They'll even send you a very nice Tax Calendar. Just ask for it!

Local Authorities Let's look at some local taxing authorities. In some states,repparttar 106516 Department of Taxation provides monthly classes for new business owners. They cover state-specific topics such as business income tax, occupancy tax and sales tax.

While we're onrepparttar 106517 local level, don't forget to contact your county, city or town revenue offices, too. Yes, everyone gets inrepparttar 106518 act of collecting some sort of tax! It could be yearly, quarterly, or monthly. Atrepparttar 106519 very least, call each entity to see what they need from you and what materials or classes they provide. Don't want to call? The end result is fines and penalties later on -- usually many times more than you would have paid inrepparttar 106520 first place.

Web Sites Althoughrepparttar 106521 IRS isrepparttar 106522 premier source for tax information, below are other suggested web sites to visit. Peachtree and Intuit (Quicken, QuickBooks) offer bookkeeping, accounting and tax software.

Sandy Botkin, CPA and attorney, is one ofrepparttar 106523 most well known national lecturers inrepparttar 106524 field of tax reduction and audit proofing techniques for small business.http://www.taxreductioninstitute.com/index2.htm

Lessons From the Olympics for Your Business

Written by Pauliina Roe


Are you all caught up inrepparttar Olympics forrepparttar 106512 last week and a half? If so, you aren't alone. Did you know there are lessons to be learned for your own business, when you watchrepparttar 106513 events?

Businesses are doing great with an association torepparttar 106514 Olympics - and you can userepparttar 106515 same tactics asrepparttar 106516 businesses and asrepparttar 106517 athletes - to boost your sales.

Business branding has come a long way -repparttar 106518 Olympics have allowed a good avenue for companies to showcase their products. For some,repparttar 106519 insertion of coupons and samples into "goody bags" given to people and repparttar 106520 audience, people in lines, etc., will go a long way in getting new business. There are others that have come up with cutting edge outfits and items geared just forrepparttar 106521 Olympics, or comparable to items used by repparttar 106522 athletes. This has pushed their business forward. The networks coveringrepparttar 106523 Games even put a plug in for many of these new items. Now people nationally are looking for ways to buy them. If you can offerrepparttar 106524 same items from your site, make it a point!

As forrepparttar 106525 athletes, they have a lot to teach you in your business, as well. The qualities they have been showing arerepparttar 106526 same ones you can use to succeed with. Here are some:

=> They train well - they absorb their sport and allrepparttar 106527 technical aspects of it. They use everything wisely and torepparttar 106528 fullest. They KNOW what they are using, and what they are talking about. They can convince anyone ofrepparttar 106529 worth of their equipment and training methods. Can you do and sayrepparttar 106530 same about what you are doing in your business?

=> They don't give up. They FOCUS and keep pushing forward. They get up when they fall, and continue on. They don't lose sigh of their goals. What about you?

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