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Idea Of The Day®

Archive

Tips, tricks, tactics and insider knowledge to keep you ahead of the game.

If you haven’t been keeping up with the Idea of the Day®, here’s the place where you can access all the ideas. Barbara knows that one single idea in the right time and place can transform a business.

If searching for a specific Idea of the Day® not found in the archives, please contact info@barbaraweltman.com with your request.


  • S Corporation Shareholder’s Income Is Ordinary

  • Working to Reduce Tax Identity Theft

  • Getting Help with Applying for COVID-19 Loans

  • Which COVID-19 loans are for you?

  • Problem with Federal Regulations

  • Get Your Tax Refund Now

  • Small Businesses Are Family

  • Reduce or Eliminate Employer Contributions to 401(k)s?

  • Workers Comp and Coronavirus

  • Webinar Today on Survival Tips for Small Businesses During COVID-19

  • Which Fulfillment Company Is Right for You?

  • National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day 2020

  • Change in Estimated Tax Due Date

  • ICHRAs Gaining Traction

  • Accepting Payment in Cryptocurrency

  • Tax Credit for Hiring Military Spouses?

  • DIY Business Agreements

  • What's the Best Business Credit Card?

  • IRS Collection of Employer Shared Responsibility Payment

  • Employer Tax Credit for Work-based Learning Participant

  • Prepare Now for Upcoming Sales Tax Holidays

  • WEBINAR ON HEALTH REIMBURSEMENT ARRANGEMENTS

  • Are Your Employees Stressed Out?

  • St. Patrick's Day 2020

  • Filing Deadline for Certain Business Income Tax Returns

  • Local Assistance for Your Business

  • Using Pros to Do Payroll

  • QSEHRAs Are Working

  • Opportunity Zones Resource Center

  • Veterans Day Poster Contest

  • Consider Filing Amended Tax Returns Due to Extenders

  • Small Business Start-up Savings Bill

  • International Women's Day 2020

  • Daylight Savings 2020

  • Internet Statistics for 2020

  • Store Important Info for Your Family

  • Is Your Business Growth in Space?

  • Do You Have to Register in Another State for Sales Tax Collection?

  • Deadline for Furnishing 1095s

  • Today Is the Start of Women’s History Month 2020

  • Leap Year and Your Payroll

  • Get Paid by Sending a Text Message?

  • Do You Outsource?

  • Don't Overlook the QBI Deduction

  • Money Smart Online Course

  • The State of Green Business

  • Patents in U.S. and Mexico

  • What's the Business Purpose of Your Driving?

  • 'Boomerang' Employees

  • Law Partner Can't Deduct Expenses for Separate Start-up Business

  • Learn about e-Verify

  • Where to Find Employees?

  • President's Day 2020 (Federal Holiday)

  • Outlook for Equipment Leasing in 2020

  • National Entrepreneurship Week

  • Valentine's Day 2020

  • Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act

  • Remembering President Lincoln’s Birthday Today

  • National Inventors’ Day

  • Ban on Prior Salary Inquiries

  • Totally Cashless?

  • How does your website look in another language?

  • Do you have an accessible work environment?

  • What Does it Cost to Start a Business?

  • Small Business's Share of Federal Procurement

  • IRS FAQs on Virtual Currency

  • FedEx’s 8th Annual Small Business Grant Contest

  • Super Bowl LIV

  • Black History Month and Entrepreneurship

  • Important Tax Filing Deadline

  • Most Popular Solopreneur Job in Your State

  • Felons for Your Unfilled Jobs?

  • National Plan for Vacation Day

  • Go Global?

  • New Postage Rates Effective Today

  • Are You Ready for Mobile Only?

  • Self-employed Salesperson Penalized for Claiming Travel Expenses

  • Coworking Space Trends for 2020

  • Tax Policies of Presidential Candidates

  • Tweet Chat Today on Mentoring

  • Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.  2020 (federal holiday)

  • Are You Subject to Predictive Scheduling Rules?

  • Expenses Before the Business Functions Are Start-up Costs

  • What Is Employee Time Theft Costing You?

  • How Is the IRS Doing?

  • Final Installment of 2019 Estimated Tax

  • Indoor Plant for Reducing Office Workers’ Stress

  • IRS-set Standard Mileage Rate

  • S Shareholder's Indebtedness to Another Entity Didn't Create Basis

  • No QBI Deduction on Substitute Return

  • Can you bar employees from using company email for personal messages?

  • Seniors Can Make IRA Contributions this Year

  • ICHRA Instead of a Group Health Plan?

  • Prepare for Winter Weather

  • FedEx Rates Increase Today

  • Tax Withholding from Retirement and Annuity Distributions

  • Tax Withholding Assistant for Employers

  • Retail Designs to Convince Customers to Buy More

  • Backup Withholding on Non-employee Compensation

  • New Year’s Day 2020 (federal holiday)

  • End of 2019

  • Remember to Change the Date for 2020

  • Corporate Tax Rates Around the World

  • Failure to Keep Records Lets the IRS Reconstruct Business Income

  • Employment Posters for 2020

  • Boxing Day

  • Christmas Day 2019 (Federal Holiday)

  • Last Minute Gifts for Children

  • Free Legal Document Templates

  • Women in the Independent Workforce

  • RMD Reminder

  • Revised W-4 Available

  • What Happens when Employee Transit Passes Malfunction?

  • Reminder: W-2s and 1099s for Independent Contractors Due January 31

  • Free Trip Cancellation Coverage

  • Corporate Estimated Taxes Due

  • IRS Advises You to Use Strong Passwords for ID Protection

  • Reporting tax basis for partners

  • Extension for Furnishing Form 1095-C

  • Saving Main Documentary

  • Co-Mingling Personal and Business Expenses Can Be Costly Taxwise

  • Protect Your Business from Cyber Crime

  • New FAQs on Rental Property for QBI Deduction

  • Taxpayer First Act Information

  • Popularity of Pension Plans

  • Do You Accept Bitcoin as Payment?

  • Remind Employees about Using Up FSAs

  • National Write a Business Plan Month

  • Giving Tuesday 2019

  • Cyber Monday 2019

  • Expanded QBI Deduction?

  • Small Business Saturday 2019

  • Black Friday 2019

  • Thanksgiving 2019

  • No deduction for another company’s finder’s fee

  • How does business travel affect your health?

  • Changes for the QBI deduction

  • Legal Challenge to California’s ABC Test

  • Retirement Plan Contribution Limits for 2020

  • Corporation’s Payment of Personal Expenses Is a Constructive Dividend

  • Tax Credit for Hiring Your First Employee

  • Out-of-state Business with California Customers Beware

  • Veteran-owned Businesses and the Global Supply Program

  • Global Entrepreneurship Week

  • Health Care Costs Preventing Retirement Savings

  • Electronic Disclosure Safe Harbor for Retirement Plan Docs

  • Incentive for Community Banks to Make Small Business Loans

  • Do you have to offer commuter benefits?

  • Corporate Tax Revenues Up

  • Tax-free Treatment for Certain Recoveries

  • Veterans Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Lose your business license for misclassifying workers?

  • 2019 State Business Tax Climate Index

  • Input in Federal Rulemaking

  • PTIN Renewal Season Is On

  • Withholding Taxes from Disability Benefits

  • Election Day

  • National Veterans Small Business Week

  • Retirement Plan Selector Tool

  • Daylight Savings Time Ends

  • National Entrepreneurship Month

  • Millions of Americans Celebrate Halloween

  • One Month to Small Business Saturday

  • Are You an 'Emotional Vampire'?

  • Enrolled Agent Fees Set to Rise

  • Job Growth among Small Businesses

  • Tax Relief for Drought-stricken Farmers to Replace Livestock

  • Tax Credit for Paid Family and Medical Leave

  • Truncated SSNs on W-2s

  • Using K-1 Data for Improving Tax Compliance

  • SBA Tool for Finding Capital

  • Are You Training Employees for Cybersecurity?

  • Family Business Week

  • Tax Gap Estimates

  • Per Diem Travel Rates

  • DOL Overtime Rule

  • National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day

  • Tax Deadline: Due Date of 2018 Returns on Extension

  • Columbus Day

  • Social Security 2100 Act Proposed

  • NY Human Rights Amendments Effective Today

  • Small Business and Cyberattacks

  • Online Advertising Great for Small Business

  • Payment Method Changes for Small Business

  • Reasonable ADA Accommodations Up to the Employer

  • IRS Whistleblower's Anonymity

  • Check Smoke Alarms

  • Using AI When Interviewing Job Applicants

  • Flu Season Underway

  • Notice for QSEHRAs

  • National Cyber Security Awareness Month

  • National Disability Employment Awareness Month

  • SIMPLE Plans: Deadline Tomorrow

  • Small Businesses Have Difficulty Finding Workers

  • Small Business Quiz

  • Data Breaches at Small Businesses

  • Nominations for SBA Awards

  • Inbound Marketing Is In

  • Webinar on Small Business Healthcare Options for 2020

  • Make Getting Referrals Easier

  • American Business Women’s Day

  • Deduction for Personal Advances?

  • Responding to Negative Reviews

  • Tax Withholding Estimator Webinar

  • SBA Tweetchat Today

  • Small Businesses and Quick Deliveries

  • Tax Deadlines

  • National Hispanic Heritage Month

  • Tax Withholding Estimator for the Self-employed?

  • FMLA Covers Certain School Meetings

  • Webinar Today on HRAs

  • 9/11: Tomorrow Together

  • SBDCs Can Help Your Business

  • Maintaining Good Customer Service

  • IRS Interest Rates to Know

  • Car Expenses without Good Records Are Not Deductible

  • Background Checks on Current Employees

  • E-book for Ride-Sharing Drivers

  • Remote Worker Grant Programs

  • Highway Truckers' Use Tax Return Due Today

  • Labor Day / Labour Day

  • National Preparedness

  • New IRS SB/SE Commissioner

  • Proposed Changes to NLRB Union Rules

  • IRS Recommends Data Theft Recovery Plan

  • Regulatory Change for Endangered Species Rule Helps Small Business

  • SBA Twitter Chat Today

  • Can Your Business Absorb the Sales Tax?

  • Consumer Credit Report Protection for Contractors?

  • Definition of Sexual Harassment

  • Deducting Interest Payments Requires Paperwork

  • Webinar on Social Media

  • Small Business Optimism Remains High

  • Phishing Scams Proliferate

  • Background Checks

  • Association Retirement Plans

  • Acting Administrator of the SBA

  • Auto-portability of Retirement Plan Benefits

  • Deducting Project Development Costs

  • Bill Would Expand Incentives for Hiring the Disabled

  • Left Handers Day

  • Misclassifying Worker can Trigger Damages to that Worker

  • Career Control Is the #1 Reason for Self-employment

  • Expansion of the Research Tax Credit?

  • Business Deduction for Self-employed Health Insurance?

  • Employee Scheduling Apps

  • Tag Your Electronic Items?

  • Healthcare Coverage an Important Employee Benefit

  • Future-proof Your Business Expert Showcase Series

  • Hiring Plans for Small Businesses since January

  • Tax Security Checklist

  • Unexpected Costs of Starting a Business

  • Defined Benefit Plan Contribution Calculator

  • Qualified Plans: File Annual Return Today

  • Power of Small Retailers

  • Boomers Are the Majority of Franchisees

  • Can you ask a job applicant about salary history?

  • Gainful Employment Rule Dead

  • CalSavers Retirement Savings Program Now Open

  • Best and Worst States to Start a Business in 2019

  • Keeping Workers Safe During Storm Recovery

  • The Pledge to America's Workers

  • Using the E-Verify Logo

  • Main Street Tax Certainty Act

  • 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing

  • Social Media Definitions

  • Grants for R&D

  • Small Businesses Well Respected

  • Bad Economy No Excuse for Paying Payroll Taxes Late

  • Amazon Prime Day

  • Use Solar to Charge Your Phone

  • Entrepreneur Loses Out on Tax Deductions

  • OSHA Consultation Program

  • E-Verify Webinars

  • Voice Search to Find Local Businesses

  • Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs)

  • Trademarks for Immoral Titles

  • Apps for all Flight Information

  • Tax credit for apprenticeship programs?

  • Outsourcing in 2019

  • Independence Day (federal holiday)

  • Online Application Process for Women-Owned Business Certification

  • Prepare for Sales Tax Holiday

  • Canada Day

  • State Law Changes Effective July 1, 2019

  • Catch up on SBA Webinars from Nat’l Small Business Week

  • IRS Transcript Faxing Service Ended

  • No Union Solicitation on Company Property Open to the Public

  • How to Sleep on a Plane

  • Obesity Is Not an ADA Impairment

  • Create Audio Ad Campaigns

  • Expansion of the Work Opportunity Credit?

  • Liability for HIPAA Violations

  • Take Your Dog to Work Day 2019

  • What customer experience do consumers want?

  • Stockbrokers’ Standard of Conduct

  • Discrimination claims require exhaustion of EEOC action

  • Second Installment of Estimated Taxes

  • Father’s Day

  • State-level individual health mandates

  • Self-employment tax on book royalties

  • Webinar on Financial Statements

  • Increased Fees for Enrolled Agents

  • IRS Videos on Some Tax Rules

  • Expansion of QBI Deduction?

  • The Tax Gap Now

  • MaKerspace Training, Collaboration, and Hiring Pilot Competition

  • Chance to Win Cash for Your Business

  • 75th Anniversary of D-Day

  • SBE Business Policy Index 2019

  • Uber Drivers Are Independent Contractors

  • Worldwide Trademark Searches

  • Use Visual Content on Your Website

  • Hurricane Season Begins: Are You Prepared?

  • Extension for Submitting the EEO-1 Report

  • Parenting and Owning a Business

  • State Anti-Discrimination Laws

  • Short-term Home Rentals

  • Memorial Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Retirement Parity for Student Loans Act

  • Bill to Encourage Small Business Loans

  • Sales Tax-free Weekends

  • Small Business Website Attacks

  • Amazon Demographics Data Available

  • Would proposed Corporate Transparency Act help or hurt small businesses?

  • Self-employment in 2019

  • Entrepreneur’s Guide

  • Tell the IRS if You Relocate

  • Can you get someone’s tax information?

  • SCOTUS Backs Employee Arbitration Agreement

  • Filing Deadline for Certain Fiscal Year Partnerships and S Corporations

  • Trends in Small Business Advertising

  • New rules for getting an EIN

  • Mother's Day 2019

  • Encrypting Your Email

  • Trends in Small Business Health Insurance

  • Digital Spring Cleaning SMB Checklist

  • Investments in Opportunity Zones

  • National Small Business Week Virtual Conference

  • Are You Increasing Employee Benefits?

  • National Small Business Week Begins Today

  • Do You Need a Meeting?

  • Consequences for not Maintaining Corporate Status with a State

  • Hackathon 2019

  • National Inventors Month

  • Watch for Social Security No-Match Letters

  • Small Businesses Asking for More Credit

  • National Small Business Week Begins One Week from Today

  • Course on Buying a Business

  • State’s Corporate Incentives Are Not Income

  • Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

  • Is a website secure?

  • Proposed Rule on Joint Employer Status

  • Earth Day 2019

  • Easter

  • Small Business Borrowing Is Up

  • Tax identity theft is down

  • Small Businesses Are Creating Jobs

  • Boomers Big Into Entrepreneurship

  • Tax Freedom Day is Today

  • Tax Deadline

  • Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Business Owners

  • SECURE Act Proposed

  • AI for Customer Service?

  • New Sales Tax Tool for Remote Sellers

  • Cyber Security Facts for Business Owners

  • Delivery Truck Alternatives

  • How much do consumers know about new tax rules?

  • Online Selling Is a Big Deal

  • Tax-related Phone Scams and Robocalls

  • Ban on Gender Identity Discrimination in Credit Transactions

  • Track Your Email

  • NEW GIG Act

  • Time Wasters for Business Owners

  • IRS Interest Rates for 2019 Q2

  • Small Business Borrowing Increases

  • State of Small Business Advertising in 2019

  • National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day

  • Understanding Digital Disruption

  • Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act

  • Thinking of getting a degree in business?

  • Small Business’s Share of GDP Declined

  • E-filing for Report on Cash Transactions

  • Virtual Private Networks

  • Calculate Your Risk?

  • Banner Year for IRS Whistleblower Payouts

  • IRS looking harder at gig economy?

  • Can you terminate an employee for marijuana use?

  • How many jobs does one new job create?

  • St. Patrick’s Day

  • Going Cashless?

  • Filing Deadline for Certain Business Income Tax Returns

  • DOL’s New Proposed Overtime Rule

  • Your Business Credit Score

  • Startup Competitions

  • Employers can help with student loan debt?

  • SMB Alert: Beware of Tax Scams

  • Daylight Savings

  • International Women's Day

  • Natural Disaster Tax Relief Act

  • IRS Guide to Business Tax Changes

  • State of Female Entrepreneurship

  • Deadline for Furnishing 1095s

  • 2019 FedEx Small Business Grant Contest

  • Social Media Marketing Course

  • Today Is the Start of Women’s History Month

  • Definition of Independent Contractor

  • Take AARP’s Employer Pledge

  • New Tax Credit for Employers of Reservists?

  • Inc. 5000

  • Increase the Social Security Tax Rate?

  • OSHA Final Rule Doesn’t Help Small Business

  • State of Small Business Now

  • Getting Sales Taxes Right

  • Tax Credit for Hiring Vets in Energy Sustainable Technologies

  • Employers can require civility from employees?

  • Presidents’ Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Union Membership Continues to Decline

  • National Entrepreneurship Week

  • Understand how people interact on social media

  • Valentine’s Day

  • Small Businesses Donate More than Big Businesses

  • Remembering President Lincoln’s Birthday Today

  • Proposed Legislation Impacting Small Business

  • Independent trucker can’t be forced into arbitration?

  • Why More Small Employers Aren’t Using QSEHRAs

  • Presenteeism Is Costlier than Absenteeism

  • Funding Options for Latinx Entrepreneurs

  • Who should monitor retirement savings?

  • Expanded HSAs?

  • How to Research a Potential Franchise Purchase

  • Super Bowl LIII

  • Robots and Workplace Safety

  • Black History Month and Entrepreneurship

  • Important Tax Filing Deadline

  • Small Business Expo

  • Electing Out of Business Interest Expense Limitation

  • Data Privacy Day

  • New Postage Rates Effective Today

  • Tax Credit for GM Electric Vehicles Reduced

  • How do people find jobs?

  • Mandatory Apprenticeship Programs?

  • Starting a Business on a Shoestring

  • Virtual Phones

  • Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Federal Holiday)

  • IT Help

  • OSHA Inspections by Air

  • Tips to Improve Employee Morale

  • Lemonade Day

  • Permissible Incentives Under Wellness Plans

  • Final Installment of 2018 Estimated Tax

  • Safe Harbor for Businesses Receiving Certain State or Local Tax Credits

  • Expensing of Certain Building Improvements?

  • Must You Accommodate a Worker’s Anxiety about Commuting?

  • EEOC’s New Office for Data

  • Learning Opportunities Today

  • Personal Liability for Owners of Corporations and LLCs?

  • Erroneous Research Credit Claims

  • Minimum wage for independent contractors?

  • Business Travelers’ Flight Delays

  • Company Penalized for Fraudulent 1099

  • HSAs without Fees?

  • Flexible Work Arrangements?

  • Business Driving in 2019

  • New Year’s Day (federal holiday)

  • End of 2018

  • Get Your 1095 Filing Dates Straight

  • Standard Mileage Rate for Business Driving in 2019

  • Employment Posters for 2019

  • Farm Bill Becomes Law

  • Boxing Day

  • Christmas Day (federal holiday)

  • Returns Policy

  • Trying to understand blockchain?

  • Making Health Care More Affordable

  • How Savvy Are You about E-Verify?

  • What do employees value most in their jobs?

  • RMD Reminder

  • Information Overload

  • Corporate Estimated Taxes Due

  • New Accounting Rules

  • Best Business Documentaries of 2018

  • Profile of Millennial Women

  • What the USMCA Means to Small Businesses

  • Paying Taxes In Bitcoin?

  • IRS on Instagram

  • Working Remotely

  • Tech Startup Cities

  • Small Business Saturday 2018 Was a Success

  • Leave-based Donation Programs

  • Cyber Security Statistics

  • New Rollover Facilitator

  • QSEHRA Guide

  • Q4 Is the Most Profitable Time of the Year

  • Payday Loan Alternative for Employees

  • National Write a Business Plan Month

  • Inspiration from Winston Churchill

  • IRS Priority Guidance List 2018-2019

  • Teens Thinking about Entrepreneurship

  • Giving Tuesday

  • Cyber Monday

  • E-Verify and Small Business

  • Small Business Saturday

  • Black Friday

  • Thanksgiving

  • Duties and Taxes Calculator

  • National Entrepreneurship Month

  • Are You at Risk for a Cyberattack?

  • New POS System

  • How Do You Communicate with Your Online Customers?

  • New Form for Paid Family and Medical Leave Credit

  • SBA Tweet Chat Today on Holiday Marketing

  • Help with Being DOL Compliant

  • New Law to Combat Opioid Crisis

  • Global Entrepreneurship Week

  • Veterans Day (Federal Holiday Tomorrow)

  • Hobby Loss Rule Doesn’t Apply to C Corporations

  • 2018 International Competitiveness Index

  • 2019 Social Security Wage Base

  • 2018 Small Business Success Virtual Conference Tomorrow

  • Election Day

  • IRS is Hiring

  • Daylight Savings Time Ends

  • QuickBooks Online Advanced

  • Bill to Bar Duplicative Online Taxes

  • Open Enrollment on the Marketplace Begins Today

  • Halloween Spending to Reach All-Time High

  • Working Past Age 65

  • File Sharing Options

  • Health Coverage by Small Employers

  • Business Wireless Satisfaction

  • Business Credit Cards

  • Computational Contracts

  • One Month to Small Business Saturday

  • Information Overload Day

  • New Font to Boost Memory

  • Fixing Retirement Plan Problems

  • Principles of Influence in Online Marketing

  • Introduction to Human Resources

  • Beware of Greenwashing

  • National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day

  • Replacement Period for Livestock Sold Due to Drought

  • Tax Deadline: Due Date of 2017 Returns on Extension

  • Additional IRS Guidance on the Credit for Paid Family and Medical Leave

  • Reimbursing moving expenses

  • American Innovation Act of 2018

  • The Cost of Busyness for Small Business Owners

  • 2019 Schedule for Small Business Expo

  • Improve Your Business with Gamification?

  • Columbus Day

  • Check Smoke Alarms

  • Bill to Protect Small Businesses from Sales Tax Problems

  • Significant Online Sales for Small Businesses

  • Toptal Scholarship for Women

  • Flu Season Underway

  • National Cyber Security Awareness Month

  • National Disability Employment Awareness Month

  • SIMPLE Plans: Deadline Tomorrow

  • Securing Your Computer

  • Networking App

  • Small Business Optimism Highest in 35 Years

  • Small Business Exporting Expected to Continue to Grow

  • Federal Tax Changes Affecting Businesses

  • Contract Management

  • Do High Tax States Impact NFL Players’ Performance?

  • Excess business losses for noncorporate taxpayers

  • Main Street Employee Ownership Act

  • Paying for Travel with Bitcoin

  • Crafting Company Values

  • Employers Can Incentivize Student Loan Repayments

  • Tax Deadlines

  • National Hispanic Heritage Month

  • National Day of Action on Preparedness

  • Prevalence of Online Marketing

  • Small Business Owners Don’t Use Good Cybersecurity Practices

  • Main Street Employee Ownership Act

  • 9/11: A National Day of Service

  • Are You Okay with Job Applicant Ghosting?

  • Using Social Media to Grow Your Business

  • Transfer of S Corporation Stock in a Divorce

  • Apprenticeship.gov

  • Best Small Cities to Start a Small Business

  • Majority of Owners Oppose Repeal of Net Neutrality

  • Business Deductions Lost to Poor Recordkeeping

  • Labor Day/Labour Day

  • Women-owned Business Growth Is Impressive

  • National Preparedness Month

  • Filing Deadline for Truckers and Owners of Heavy Highway Vehicles

  • SBA Awards Nominations

  • Off the Clock Is on the Clock?

  • SBA Tweet Chat Today

  • State Privacy Laws

  • More Time to Challenge Wrongful IRS Levy

  • Record-high Small Business Loan Approval

  • DOL Rule on AHPs

  • Cost of Inventory Shrink: $48.9 Billion

  • IRS Guidance on Small Business Accounting Method

  • Union Persuader Rule Rescinded

  • Business Income Deduction Reporting

  • Open to All

  • Funding for Veteran Startups

  • Using To-do Lists for Your Business

  • Boost Your Local Search Results

  • National Online Banks?

  • Small Business Loan Comparisons

  • Left Hander’s Day

  • Turn Your Temps into Permanent Employees?

  • How Customers Want to Pay

  • Do you use your CPA’s advisory services?

  • Bankruptcy Won’t Absolve Owner of Payroll Taxes

  • Nonemployer Businesses Are More Likely to Fold than Hire Employees

  • Eco-friendly Tips to Save You Money

  • Small Business Owners and the American Dream

  • Legal Protection for Employees Who Use Pot?

  • Legal Requirements for Small Businesses

  • Create a Data Security Plan

  • Proposal to Allow Small Business Access to Multiemployer Plans

  • Gig Economy’s Impact on Your Workforce

  • Qualified Plans: File Annual Return Today

  • Bill to Expand SIMPLE Plans

  • Yelp Can't Be Ordered to Take Down Negative Review in this Case

  • No Home Office Deduction for Storing Records

  • New Laws to Increase Access to Capital

  • Is Your Website Secure?

  • State Tax Amnesty Programs

  • Sell to the U.S. Government?

  • Yelp for Your Business?

  • Credit or Deduction for FICA on Tips: Who Decides?

  • Are you doing strategic planning?

  • Trade Show Booth Makeover

  • Best and Worst States to Start a Business

  • FTC Targeting Small Business Scammers

  • SBA’s Lender Connection

  • Amazon Prime Day

  • Tax Compliance by Non-employer Businesses

  • Opportunity Zone Designations

  • Proposed Tax Credit for Veteran Entrepreneurs

  • Pay Attention to Your Benefits Menu

  • Business Owners Use their Wealth for Social and Civil Commitment

  • Webinar Today on Cybersecurity Insurance

  • Independent Contractor Quiz

  • Revenue Growth for Online Sales this Year

  • Marijuana Business Can’t be Parsed

  • Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by Congressional District

  • S Corporation Shareholder Can’t Unilaterally Nullify a Corporate Tax Election

  • Independence Day (federal holiday)

  • Do you use an SEO agency or consultant?

  • Prepare for Sales Tax Holiday

  • Canada Day

  • State Tax Changes Effective July 1, 2018

  • Paid Sick Leave

  • Contingent workers on the decline?

  • S Corporation Owner’s Basis in Guaranteed Loan

  • Returns Tsunami for Retail

  • Excise Taxes

  • W-4 Revised for 2019

  • Monitor changing OSHA rules

  • Take Your Pet to Work Day

  • Worker Optimism Is Up

  • Are You Prepared for Opioid Overdoses in the Workplace?

  • Employee Compensation on the Rise

  • Partnership statistics

  • Father’s Day

  • New Guide to Building a better business credit score

  • Second installment of estimated taxes

  • Small business owners have a high use of personal credit cards

  • Expenses before a business begins operations

  • How to prepare government proposals?

  • Webinar Today on Combating Ransomware

  • IRS’ 5-year Strategic Plan

  • No Bad Debt Deduction without Proof of Worthlessness

  • Boomer Entrepreneurs

  • Grants for Grads

  • Communications Planning for Hurricane Season

  • More Boomers Working or Looking for Work

  • What’s KODAKOne and KODAKCoin?

  • No NOL Without Producing Old Tax Returns

  • Proposal to Expand Health FSAs

  • Hurricane Season Begins: Are You Prepared?

  • Data Protection Measures

  • Pro Se Assistance Program for Getting a Patent

  • Take Your Business Global

  • Memorial Day (Federal Holiday)

  • 2019 HSA Contribution Limits Announced

  • Email “Snooze” from Microsoft

  • GDPR Effective Today

  • Hiring Your Child

  • Importance of Friendships to Remote Workers

  • Small Business Investments in Social Media

  • State of Women Entrepreneurship

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  • National Small Business Week Virtual Conference

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  • Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

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  • International Mentoring Day

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  • I Am A Mentor Day

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  • End to Tax Deductions for Sexual Harassers

  • Employment Posters for 2018

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  • Boxing Day

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  • SBA Webinar Today on Cyber Security

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  • National Write a Business Plan Month

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  • Giving Tuesday

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  • Small Business Saturday

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  • Technology Doesn’t Replace Business Travel

  • National Entrepreneurship Day

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  • Nominations for National Small Business Week Awards

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  • Global Entrepreneurship Week November 13

  • Expansion of Deduction for Start-up Expenses

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  • Tomorrow: SBA’s Small Business Success Virtual Conference

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  • Most Trusted Brands in Small Business

  • Daylight Savings Ends

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  • Regulations Impacting Family-owned Businesses Pulled

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  • National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day

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  • Hiring and Health Care Are Top Issues for Small Businesses

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  • SBA Webinar Today on Making Ethical Business Decisions

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  • Nominate Your Favorite Small Town

  • Columbus Day

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  • Minority-owned Businesses Make up 40% of all Businesses

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  • Flu Season Underway

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  • Tightening Job Market

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  • Contest: Indie Awards

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  • Leave-based Donations for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Victims

  • Parcel Shipping on the Rise

  • SBA Loan Deferment for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Victims

  • Number of High-Income Filers on the Rise

  • Bill to Modify Worker Classification

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  • NOL Carrybacks/Carryovers by State

  • Lawyers Say What Small Business Owners Should Know

  • 9/11: A Day of Service and Remembrance

  • Revised IRS Website

  • Help for Women-owned Businesses

  • Firing an Employee for Political Speech?

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  • Sales Tax Amnesty Program

  • SBA Loan Deferment for Hurricane Harvey Victims

  • Labor Day - Labour Day

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  • IRS Scrutiny of Payments to Family Members

  • National Preparedness Month

  • IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center

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  • Verizon’s Business Unlimited

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  • Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S. Today

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  • New Mentorship Program for Farmers

  • Webinar on the 1% Edge

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  • Webinar Tomorrow on Adding Revenue Streams for Your Service Business

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  • Left Hander’s Day

  • Staples’ National Breakroom Makeover Contest

  • Support Small Business R&D Act

  • Small Businesses and Cyber Breaches

  • IRS Making Progress Against Tax ID Theft

  • SBA Webinar on Avoiding Payment Fraud

  • USPS’s New Package Verification System

  • Email Notifications about EFTPS Payments

  • Death Taxes in Your State

  • Certified Professional Employer Organizations

  • Customization of Benefits Desired

  • U.S. Chamber’s Events for Small Businesses

  • Electronic Submissions to OSHA

  • Qualified Plans: File Annual Return Today

  • Tax Credit for Building a Commercial Production Facility

  • Sideline Activity a Hobby?

  • State Regulation of Unenrolled Return Preparers

  • Use Video for Affordable Marketing

  • Webinar about Franchising

  • Tax Measure Aimed at Gig Economy

  • Present Law and Background on Taxation of Small Business

  • Refunds of PTIN Fees?

  • Status of 'Startup Visas'

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  • To SHOP or not to SHOP

  • IRS Warns Against Phishing

  • Find SBA Events Near You

  • New HUBZone Maps

  • Business Travelers: Know Your Rights

  • Help with Employment Taxes

  • Sales and Gasoline Tax Changes Mid-Year

  • INVEST Act Would Make Favorable Tax Changes

  • Screening Job Candidates through Social Media

  • Best Location for a New Business?

  • Statute of Limitations for Taxes

  • Are your employees using up their PTO?

  • Stats for Small Businesses

  • PEOs and Your Payroll Liability

  • Tax Credit for Veteran Start-ups

  • Paying FICA on Deferred Compensation

  • Independence Day (federal holiday)

  • Learn about Savings Plans for Small Businesses

  • Does your logo measure up?

  • Canada Day

  • End of First Half of 2017

  • Savings Account for Starting a Business?

  • Small Business Tax Index 2017

  • I-9 Audits

  • Early Warning System for Missed Employment Tax Deposits

  • IRS Guide for Plan Sponsors

  • Apprenticeship Credit

  • Prepare for Sales Tax Holiday

  • One Quarter of all Taxpayers Are in Business

  • Incentive for Investing in High Tech

  • Form 1099-Ks Help IRS Find Undisclosed Income

  • Main Street Revival Act Proposed

  • Father’s Day

  • Will Your Estate Be Taxed When You Die?

  • New Credit Card for Freelancers

  • Second Installment of Estimated Taxes

  • Preferred Method of Communication

  • Small Business Owners Look Back

  • Small Businesses Targeted More Frequently by Hackers

  • Mobile Searches Exceed other Venues

  • New IRS Correspondence Exam Digital Pilot Program

  • Entrepreneur DIY Marketing Month

  • Small Business Success Virtual Conference

  • What’s your benefits package?

  • Strong Business Credit Conditions for Small Businesses

  • Ransomware protection

  • Tax Breaks for Gigabit Opportunity Zones

  • Video Series to Help You Export

  • Finding SBA Loans

  • Hurricane Season Begins: Are You Prepared?

  • QuickBooks Update

  • Is Your Business on Facebook?

  • Memorial Day (federal holiday)

  • How Are Microbusinesses Doing?

  • P2P Payments

  • Contest for Women Business Owners

  • Bill to Expand the Work Opportunity Credit

  • TurboTax Defense?

  • What Does 'Placed in Service' Mean?

  • Truckers Properly Treated as Independent Contractors

  • Selfie to Block Identity Theft?

  • Comp Time to Be Allowed?

  • SMBs Confident about the Global Economy

  • Union Walk Around Rule Rescinded

  • Startups On the Rise

  • Paying Personal Expenses from a Business Bank Account?

  • Guidance on Sec. 179 Expensing

  • Mother’s Day

  • Best Small Business Apps

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  • Charging Customers More for Using Plastic?

  • Small Business and Tax Complexity

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  • Hiring Difficulties

  • Small Business Payment Toolkit

  • OSHA’s New Slip and Fall Rule

  • Sexual Orientation Bias Barred in the Workplace

  • Small Business, Big Trade

  • National Small Business Week Starts Today

  • Tax Fairness for Small Businesses

  • Online Reviews

  • Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

  • National Administrative Professionals Day

  •  Guidance on Research Credit as Offset to Payroll Taxes

  • Webinar on April 25 on Reaching More Customers

  • Today is Tax Freedom Day

  • Earth Day 2017

  • State Income Tax Amnesty

  • Corporation Doesn’t Get Economic Hardship Relief

  • Business on the Ropes: Who to Pay?

  • Tax Deadline

  • National Small Business Weeks Starts Soon

  • Easter Sunday Spending Expected to Be Up Considerably

  • Cost Segregation Calculator

  • Good Friday

  • Employee Consent for FICA Refunds to Employers

  • IRS Fast Track Settlement Program

  • Digital Signatures

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  • Robotics For Your company?

  • Small Business Owners Barred from Cafeteria Plans

  • Dream Digital Contest

  • Understanding Federal Regulations

  • States Taxes: How Does Your State Compare?

  • Equal Pay Day

  • Screencasting

  • Being Happy at Work

  • April Fools’ Day

  • Employer reporting and the IRS

  • Overcome Your Fear of Business Planning

  • PayPal Fees Up for Overseas Sales

  • Do you have a written disaster recovery plan?

  • Tax Simplification for a Mobile Workforce

  • Lower Taxes for Pass-Through Entities?

  • ICON Starts One Month from Today

  • Identity Theft and Tax Fraud Prevention Act

  • Small Business in the U.S.

  • Tax Policies on Virtual Currency

  • Comparison of International Corporate Tax Rates

  • Start of Spring and Time to Think about Summer interns

  • Dividend Treatment for Corporation’s Payment of Owner’s Expenses

  • Right-to-Work States

  • St. Patrick’s Day

  • Gentlemen Farmers Beware

  • Filing Deadline for Certain Business Income Tax Returns

  • Webcast on Your Fiduciary Responsibilities

  • Dentist as Real Estate Pro

  • IRS Criminal Investigation Annual Report

  • Daylight Savings

  • Does Your Company Have an App?

  • Tax Calendar for Businesses and the Self-employed

  • Notice Period for QSEHRAs for 2017 Extended

  • America’s Main Streets Contest

  • FedEx’s 5th Annual Small Business Grant Contest

  • Emojis and Your Messages

  • Employer Contributions to 529 and ABLE Accounts?

  • The Story Exchange’s 2017 List

  • Furnish Employees with Health Information Returns

  • Today is the Start of Women’s History Month

  • Deadline for Transmittal of Certain Paper Returns

  • Regulations Scorecard

  • Can Your Business Recover Costs from the IRS?

  • Business Traveler: Check Your ID

  • Postage Rate Guide

  • Sellers Choice Awards

  • National Entrepreneurship Week

  • Small Business Policy Index 2017

  • Presidents’ Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Proposed Tax Change for Startups

  • Fiduciary Rule Shelved

  • Credit for Hiring Student Loan Repayers?

  • Brewing the American Dream Pitch Room Competition

  • Exemption from Withholding

  • Valentine’s Day

  • Phishing Tops the IRS Dirty Dozen List of Tax Scams

  • Remembering President Lincoln’s Birthday Today

  • Acts of Kindness

  • Trust Fund Penalty Not Deductible

  • Need for Skilled Workers

  • Business Number on Your Smartphone

  • RV Used for Business Not Deductible

  • Your Marketing Efforts this Year

  • Superbowl LI

  • Employer Help for Paying Student Loans

  • Gig Economy Access

  • Comparison Shop Shipping Rates

  • Black History Month and Entrepreneurship

  • Important Tax Filing Deadline

  • Entrepreneur Scholarship Opportunity

  • Co-borrowing Doesn’t Create Shareholder Basis

  • 'Virtual-only' Shareholder Meetings

  • Student Loan Forgiveness for Young Entrepreneurs

  • 25 Years for ADA’s Public Accommodations

  • Retirement Payments Subject to Self-employment Tax