J.K. Lasser’s Small Business Taxes 2025
COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SMALL BUSINESS TAX WRITE-OFFS AND STRATEGIES FROM A LEADING NAME IN TAX
If you own a small business, this comprehensive guide explains in easy-to-understand terms the essentials of business taxes to prepare you to work better with your CPA or other tax adviser or handle tax responsibilities on your own. Whether you’re a sole proprietor or have organized your business as a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company, the information is tailored for your business. Up-to-date information key to the 2024 return includes changes from the Inflation Reduction Act and SECURE Act 2.0 effective in 2024. The book also provides evergreen tax planning to make tax-savvy decisions that improve your bottom line. A free supplement available in February 2025 updates the information so you won’t miss out on any tax-saving opportunities.
J.K. Lasser’s 1001 Deductions & Tax Breaks 2025
THE COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK FOR AMERICAN TAXPAYERS LOOKING FOR EVERY LEGAL TAX DEDUCTION AND CREDIT
This edition of this popular book has been fully updated to reflect the latest law changes, rulings and court decisions impacting 2024 returns. It’s organized in a way that allows you to easily refer to the appropriate deductions and credits for your particular needs. Organized by topic—your family, your investments, your retirement savings, your charitable giving, and more—find ideas to help you save on your 2024 tax return now and plan ahead with tax breaks scheduled for 2025 and beyond. There are planning tips and pitfalls throughout, as well as alerts to upcoming changes. A free supplement available in February 2025 updates the information so you won’t miss out on any tax-saving opportunities.
500+ Big Ideas for Your Small Business
Ideas you’ll use everyday!
With only so many hours in the day, it’s impossible to stay on top of key developments and opportunities to help you run your business better and smarter. 500+ Big Ideas for Your Small Business gives you quick access to resources and tips you can use every day. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, you’ll find actionable ideas to help you with your finances, your operations, your staff, your marketing, your taxes, your technology, your environment, and your personal growth.
Home Business Magazine's – Home-Based Business Start-Up Guide
A Step-By-Step Road Map–with Checklists–to Get You Started Up, Profitable, and Successful
Whether you want to start up a part-time home-based business or jump in full throttle and work on it full time, you need a start-up guide. A road map! Home-Based Business Start-Up Guide will help you chart your course to work-from-home success. Written by industry expert Barbara Weltman, our Start-Up Guide is broken up into easily digestible chapters that cover the key areas of a new business launch. We outline 10 fundamental steps to succeed in running a home business. These include selecting a business; determining business fit; establishing your business organization; business protections; marketing and selling; setting up a productive home office; managing your business; achieving success; business growth and more.
Jim Blasingame, Host of The Small Business Advocate Show, and author of the award-winning books, “The 3rd Ingredient,” and “The Age of the Customer” says: “At a time when working from home is becoming the norm, why wouldn’t right now be a perfect time to start a home-based business? If you’re still with me, here’s the next logical question: Why wouldn’t you want to learn how to do that from someone who was home-based before it was cool? Someone who was making being home-based look good before technology made it easy.
Well, that person is my friend, Barbara Weltman, and she’s put all of her experience, wisdom and perspective in a new book, “Home-Based Business Start-up Guide.” It’s a by-the-numbers tutorial on how to launch a successful home-based business.
Let Barbara help you get your home-based business going with her book, and all of the other awesome resources she produces in support of small businesses. She’s the best.”
The Delivery Driver Tax and Business Guide, Kindle Edition
Your GPS to Get You Where You Want to Go in Your Business
Do you enjoy driving and being your own boss with flexible work options? Are you looking for a part-time (or full-time) activity that earns good money? Maybe you’ve already discovered that there are great opportunities for making money with your car. Or, you’d like to become a delivery driver driver but uncertain how to begin. This guide, “The Delivery Driver Tax and Business Guide” is your answer!
J.K. Lasser's – Guide to Self-Employment: Taxes, Strategies, and Money-Saving Tips for Schedule C filers, 2nd Edition
What every self-employed person needs to know about their taxes!
If you’re self-employed, chances are the majority of your time is spent finding new customers or clients, servicing existing ones, and handling each and every aspect of your business. Freelancers, independent contractors, gig economy participants, and other individuals working for themselves need to be aware of their responsibilities when it comes to paying their taxes. Even if you have an accountant or use tax preparation software, you may not be aware of all the deductions and credits you are entitled to. That’s where the experts at J.K. Lasser come in.
The second edition of J.K. Lasser’s Guide to Self-Employment helps you file your taxes correctly, accurately, and on time. Using clear, jargon-free language, this bestselling guide explains the legal and financial implications of self-employment and shows you how to keep as much of your hard-earned money as legally possible.
A reader says: “This book, Guide to Self Employment, is an excellent tax resource for all freelancers & self employed people, including small business owners. Barbara Weltman is a knowledgeable tax attorney & small business specialist.”
The Uber/Lyft Driver Tax & Business Guide, Kindle Edition
Created for Uber and Lyft drivers as their GPS — to help them get where they want to go in their business, safely and securely.
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Do you enjoy driving and being your own boss with flexible work options? Are you looking for a part-time (or full-time) activity that earns good money? Maybe you’ve already discovered that there are great opportunities for making money with your car, and you’re a business owner driving for Uber, Lyft, or other platform. Or, you’d like to become an Uber or Lyft driver but uncertain how to begin. This guide, “The Uber/Lyft Driver Tax & Business Guide,” is your answer!
New updated paperback edition – Smooth Failing
Presenting a recently-launched, updated, paperback edition! Barbara Weltman takes an inspired look in Smooth Failing at the hard lessons learned when things go wrong. Through extensive interviews with entrepreneurs whose ventures failed for a variety of reasons — some stunningly unexpected, some painfully inevitable — Barbara gleans valuable insights about the small mistakes that can lead to large scale catastrophe. Smooth Failing seeks to save readers from similar disaster — while empowering those who are learning from failures and adversity to bounce back stronger and wiser on the often rocky road to success.
Small Business Survival Book
12 surefire ways for your business to survive and thrive!
Owning a small business can be a fulfilling and financially rewarding experience, but to be successful, you must know what to do while the business is up and running, and, most importantly, what to do when the business runs into trouble. This book is definitely part of what you need to succeed!
The Rational Guide to Building Small Business Credit
As Vicki Raeburn of Dun & Bradstreet notes in the forward, “…the successful creation of credit by small business has a significant effect on one of the most important business drivers, namely cash flow. … [This book has] the information needed to understand and build business credit.”
The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Starting an eBay® Business 2nd Edition
eBay has opened up a world of possibilities for just about anyone who wants to make money. You don’t need an advanced business degree from Harvard or Yale. You don’t need millions of dollars in up-front capital to get started. You don’t need any special skill or talent. All you need is a desire to succeed and an understanding of the steps you must take to accomplish your goal.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Starting a Home-Based Business Third Edition
“The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business will answer questions you probably haven’t even thought about…open the door to opportunity right now by reading and frequently referring to the information in this book” — Beverly Williams President and Founder of the American Association of Home-Based Businesses
Other Books By Barbara Weltman
- J.K. Lasser’s New Tax Law Simplified 2011
- J.K. Lasser’s Guide for Tough Times
- Bottomline’s Very Shrewd Money Book
- J.K. Lasser’s Online Taxes
- J.K. Lasser’s Finance and Tax for Your Family Business
- The Big Idea Book for New Business Owners
- Your Parent’s Financial Security
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Raising Money-Smart Kids
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Money After You Retire
