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Idea Of The Day®

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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.


  • 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

  • Key Findings on Business Risk

  • Simplify Label Making

  • How Small Business Owners Are Spending Tax Savings

  • IRS Can’t Levy against a Domain Name

  • ABC Test for Worker Classification

  • What’s Small Business Like In Your State?

  • Relief for Small Businesses Claiming the Health Insurance Credit

  • Mother’s Day

  • Task Force on Postal Service Reform

  • New Rules for Obtaining Business Credit Cards

  • E-Verify Enhancements

  • Correlation between automation and job stress

  • Learn How to Protect Your Business Email

  • What Walmart Is Doing to Attract and Retain Employees

  • Proposed Tax Credit for Worker Training

  • Tips Paid to Volunteers Are Subject to FICA

  • Get Government Stats Anywhere, Anytime

  • IRS Fact Sheet on Depreciation and Expensing

  • Reform in Occupational Licensing

  • Attorney’s Sideline Car Business Was for Profit

  • National Small Business Week Virtual Conference

  • National Small Business Week Begins Today

  • Small Business Taxpayer Bill of Rights

  • Inclusion Amounts for 2018

  • Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

  • National Administrative Professionals Day

  • National Business Travelers Day

  • Culture of Equality

  • Earth Day 2018

  • Reconstructing Mileage Records

  • Pay Gaps Still Exist

  • Tax Freedom Day

  • PayPal Changes Tomorrow

  • Tax Deadline

  • What Minimum Wage Rate Hikes Mean to Small Businesses

  • Visa Claims Resolution Initiative Effective Today

  • State-run Private-sector Retirement Plans

  • SMB Hiring Is Up

  • No Overtime Pay for Car Dealer Service Advisors

  • States with the Best and Worst Taxpayer ROI

  • Audit Rates Continue to Fall

  • When Do Individuals File their Tax Returns?

  • Inc. / The UPS Score Contest

  • Proposal to Expand Retirement Savings

  • Small Business SEO

  • Pilot DOL Program

  • What are you doing with your website?

  • Hiring Autistic Workers

  • Disability Claims Rule

  • Paycard Rule

  • Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018

  • How to Prepare for any Crisis

  • National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day

  • Small Business Credit Card Forecast

  • E-Verify Enhancements

  • Small Business Confidence at Record Highs

  • Proposal for New Health Savings Accounts

  • Proposal to Expand HSAs

  • Labor Shortages for Small Businesses

  • Growing Interest in Incorporation

  • Help employees with student loans

  • Start of Spring and Time to Think about Summer Interns

  • Declutter Your Office Space

  • Small Business Sales See Steady Growth

  • St. Patrick’s Day

  • Improper Business Credits Is a “Dirty Dozen” Tax Scam

  • Filing Deadline for Certain Business Income Tax Returns

  • Worker classification initiative not a success

  • Webinar Today on Cybersecurity

  • What’s Important to Job Candidates?

  • Website for New Tax Law Guidance

  • Daylight Savings

  • Inventory Management App

  • International Women’s Day

  • Mobile Security Threats

  • FedEx 6th Annual Small Business Grant Contest

  • Basis Is an Issue for S Corporation Owners

  • Health Care Spending Still on the Rise

  • Deadline for Transmittal of Certain Paper Returns

  • IRS’s Revised Priority List

  • Today Is the Start of Women’s History Month

  • Payday Loans

  • Cadillac Health Care Tax Postponed Again

  • C Corporation Renting Owner’s Home

  • Are small business owners kidding themselves about cyber threats?

  • Inc. 5000 Applications

  • Building or Rebuilding for Disaster Mitigation

  • “Legitify Your Small Business” Grant

  • Expansion of Small Business Health Plans

  • Automated Bookkeeping

  • Presidents’ Day (Federal Holiday)

  • National Entrepreneurship Week

  • Acts of Kindness

  • Sexual Harassment Training

  • Tracker for Multi-State Residents

  • Valentine’s Day

  • Lending to Small Businesses Post-Financial Crisis

  • Remembering President Lincoln’s Birthday Today

  • Settlement for Accounting Firm’s Malpractice Isn’t Taxable

  • IRS Whistleblower Awards

  • Concerns about Cybersecurity Have Dropped

  • Small Business Owner-Parents’ Optimism about their Children’s Future

  • SBA’s Webinar Series on the HUBZone Program

  • Beware of Employees Seeking New Jobs

  • Equipment Financing Trends

  • Super Bowl LII

  • Digital Trade in North America

  • Bitcoin as Payment?

  • Black History Month and Entrepreneurship

  • Important Tax Filing Deadline

  • Mid-year Changes to Safe Harbor 401(k)s

  • Greater Security with 2FA

  • Getting Email Under Control

  • Form I-9 Inspection Overview

  • Surge Pricing

  • State Tax Amnesty Programs

  • Tax Calendar for 2018

  • New Tax Breaks for Small Business Owners?

  • Check Your Driver’s License for Air Travel

  • New Postage Rates Effective Today

  • S Corporation Status Isn’t Property

  • Cyber Security for the Internet of Things

  • Need More Time for W-2s?

  • International Mentoring Day

  • Final Installment of 2017 Estimated Tax

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

  • Tax Filing Season

  • Establishing Values for Your Business

  • Extension for Employers’ 1095s

  • Small Business Optimism for 2018

  • Paying Invoices with Cryptocurrency?

  • Most Small Businesses Lack Bankruptcy Protection

  • Un-retirement Is a Growing Trend

  • Using 529 Plans for Apprenticeships

  • Draft of New Tax Form

  • New Withholding

  • I Am A Mentor Day

  • 2018 Forbes Small Giants Nominations

  • IRS Mileage Rate for 2018

  • New Year’s Day (federal holiday)

  • End of 2017

  • Retailers Should Monitor Trends

  • End to Tax Deductions for Sexual Harassers

  • Employment Posters for 2018

  • Business Insurance Costs

  • Boxing Day

  • Christmas Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Congratulations to the SBA Microloan Program

  • S Corporation Shareholder Taxed Despite Being Barred

  • Automatic Retirement Plan Act

  • RMD Reminder

  • Industries with Best and Worst Failure Rates

  • Impact of Ads on Buying Habits

  • Electronic Logs Required for Small Truckers

  • Sharing Tips between Certain Workers

  • Farmers Market Can’t Get Tax-Exempt Status

  • Corporate Estimated Taxes Due

  • Marketing Automation

  • IRS’ One-Stop Resource Center for Small Businesses

  • SBA Webinar Today on Cyber Security

  • Revised Social Security Wage Base for 2018

  • Veteran Entrepreneurs Act

  • Turn Customers into Advocates

  • Many Small Businesses Are Clueless about Digital Marketing

  • Small Retailers Take Note of New Walmart Action

  • Gig Economy on the Rise

  • New Type of American Express Card

  • U.S. Small Business and Global e-Commerce

  • Customized Phone Numbers

  • No Deduction for Loan Repayment

  • National Write a Business Plan Month

  • National Tax Security Awareness Week

  • Big Banks Approved 25% of Small Biz Loan Applications in October

  • Giving Tuesday

  • Cyber Monday

  • Worker Training Tax Credit

  • Small Business Saturday

  • Black Friday

  • Thanksgiving

  • Technology Doesn’t Replace Business Travel

  • National Entrepreneurship Day

  • Small Business Banking Survey

  • Who Earns Pass-through Income?

  • Sharing Company financials with employees

  • Nominations for National Small Business Week Awards

  • Google Local Services

  • Small Business Friendliness Survey

  • eBay Seller’s Tax Woes

  • Global Entrepreneurship Week November 13

  • Expansion of Deduction for Start-up Expenses

  • Veteran-owned Franchises

  • Veterans Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Tax Credit for Automatic Savings Plan

  • Tomorrow: SBA’s Small Business Success Virtual Conference

  • Election Day

  • Most Trusted Brands in Small Business

  • Daylight Savings Ends

  • White Collar Apprenticeships

  • Turning Gigs into Businesses

  • IRS’s Priority Guidance List

  • Open Enrollment on the Marketplace Begins Today

  • Halloween Spending to Reach All-time High

  • Five Years Since Hurricane Sandy

  • Small Businesses Developing Apps on the Rise

  • Employer Participation in Student Loan Assistance Act Proposed

  • 2018 State Business Tax Climate Index

  • Small Business Exporters Are Optimistic

  • One Month to Small Business Saturday

  • Small Business Guide to Cybersecurity

  • Regulations Impacting Family-owned Businesses Pulled

  • Paid Sick Leave

  • No Education Credit for Dog-grooming Course

  • Distributions to a Sole Shareholder from E&P Are Dividends

  • Holiday Sales Expected to Rise

  • National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day

  • Ethics premium

  • Tax Deadline: Due Date of 2016 Returns on Extension

  • Hiring and Health Care Are Top Issues for Small Businesses

  • More than Half of Small Businesses Are Not EMV Compliant

  • Are Online Marketplaces Beneficial to Small Businesses?

  • SBA Webinar Today on Making Ethical Business Decisions

  • Automatic IRAs?

  • Nominate Your Favorite Small Town

  • Columbus Day

  • Check Smoke Alarms

  • Taxes on Retailers Really Borne by Consumers

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

  • One Fix for Regulatory Overreach Is Nomenclature?

  • Flu Season Underway

  • Class Action Lawsuit Against Equifax

  • National Cyber Security Awareness Month

  • National Disability Employment Awareness Month

  • SIMPLE Plans: Deadline Tomorrow

  • Lost Revenue from Disasters

  • Tax on Business Income Compared

  • Success of Crowdfunding?

  • Will Service Businesses Be Subject to Sales Taxes?

  • Tightening Job Market

  • Business Owners Concerned about Cybersecurity

  • Getting Inspired at Work

  • Contest: Indie Awards

  • Cost of New Labor Regulations

  • 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

  • Tax Deadlines

  • Tips on Avoiding Tax Scammers

  • 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?

  • Majority of Small Business Owners Are Women

  • Sales Tax Amnesty Program

  • SBA Loan Deferment for Hurricane Harvey Victims

  • Labor Day - Labour Day

  • Estimated Tax Penalties on the Rise

  • IRS Scrutiny of Payments to Family Members

  • National Preparedness Month

  • IRS Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center

  • IRS Isn’t Catching Payroll Tax Underreporting

  • Verizon’s Business Unlimited

  • Certified PEOs

  • Employer Tax Credit for Paid Leave

  • Best Franchises

  • Community Investment Incentives

  • Payments for Overseas Sales

  • Is Your CPA Small-Business Certified?

  • Loan Search Engine

  • Total Solar Eclipse in the U.S. Today

  • Save Local Business Act

  • Worker Classification Law?

  • 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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  • Independence Day (federal holiday)

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  • Canada Day

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  • Small Business Tax Index 2017

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  • Main Street Revival Act Proposed

  • Father’s Day

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  • New Credit Card for Freelancers

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  • Preferred Method of Communication

  • Small Business Owners Look Back

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  • Mobile Searches Exceed other Venues

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  • Webinar on April 25 on Reaching More Customers

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  • Tax Simplification for a Mobile Workforce

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  • ICON Starts One Month from Today

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  • Start of Spring and Time to Think about Summer interns

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  • Right-to-Work States

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  • Daylight Savings

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  • Tax Calendar for Businesses and the Self-employed

  • Notice Period for QSEHRAs for 2017 Extended

  • America’s Main Streets Contest

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  • The Story Exchange’s 2017 List

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  • Business Traveler: Check Your ID

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  • Brewing the American Dream Pitch Room Competition

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  • Valentine’s Day

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  • Remembering President Lincoln’s Birthday Today

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  • Trust Fund Penalty Not Deductible

  • Need for Skilled Workers

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  • RV Used for Business Not Deductible

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  • Black History Month and Entrepreneurship

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  • Baby Boomers Leaving the Workforce

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  • Inauguration Day

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  • Final Installment of 2016 Estimated Tax

  • Martin Luther King Day (federal holiday)

  • SBA Contest for Female Entrepreneurs

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  • Updated Cost Segregation Guide

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  • Tax calendars

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  • New Form I-9

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  • Looking Back on the Corporate Tax

  • Circular E for 2017

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  • New Minimum Wage Rates

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  • Small Business Still Struggling with Loan Approval

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  • Boxing Day

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  • Webinar Today on Healthcare

  • Colorado’s Internet Sales Tax Continues

  • 2017 National Small Business Week Awards

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  • America Supports Small Business

  • Expanding Internationally

  • Estimated Taxes for Corporations

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  • Higher Cost for Installment Agreements with IRS

  • Tax Help for the 'Gig Economy'

  • More Time to Furnish ACA Forms

  • No Home Office Deduction without Proof

  • 2016 International Tax Competitive Index

  • Trade Shows

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  • National Tax Security Awareness Week Starts Today

  • Event Marketing

  • Flight Updates

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  • Do You Need to Trademark or Copyright Something?

  • Giving Tuesday

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  • Small Business Saturday

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  • Plan for Your Annual Meeting

  • Small Business Saturday

  • Is Your Website ADA Compliant?

  • Small Business and Social Media

  • Small Business Saturday is Around the Corner

  • Backup Services

  • Final Regulations on the Research Credit

  • 4th Annual SAP SME Summit

  • Design Your Own Logo

  • E-filing Employment Forms

  • Exchange Unused Leave Time for Perks?

  • IRS Priority Guidance Update

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  • Veterans Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Worst Thing about Owning a Business

  • Entrepreneurship on the Rise?

  • Election Day

  • Workers at Polling Places

  • Millennials Believe in Entrepreneurship

  • Due Diligence for EITC for Self-employed Clients

  • Help in Your Personal Life

  • Automate Your Marketing?

  • Where Do You Stand with EMV?

  • Open Enrollment on Marketplace Begins Today

  • Halloween Spending to Reach All-time High

  • Women Entrepreneurs Make Strides

  • Termination Fee Treated as Capital Loss

  • Starting a Blog?

  • Franchisee Not a Limited Partner

  • One Month to Small Business Saturday

  • CPA Blows Mileage Deduction

  • SBA Accepting Nominations for Awards

  • Will Your Employees Jump Ship?

  • Small Business Bill of Rights Act

  • OSHA Pilot Program

  • Education and Training for Small Businesses

  • State Equal Pay Laws

  • Information Overload Day

  • Tax Deadline: Due Date of 2015 Returns on Extension

  • 2017 Business Tax Climate

  • PTIN Renewals

  • Your Risk of Cyber Crime?

  • Which Form I-9 to Use?

  • What You Drink at Work-related Events Matters?

  • Proposed Retirement Plan Reform

  • Columbus Day

  • Check Smoke Alarms

  • New IRS Audit Technique Guide

  • Are Mandatory Retirement Plans Coming to Your Workplace?

  • Flu Season Underway

  • Court Bars EPA from Privacy Disclosures

  • Toll-free Phone Number Directory

  • Graduate Students Can Unionize

  • National Cyber Security Awareness Month

  • National Disability Employment Awareness Month

  • SIMPLE Plans: Deadline Tomorrow

  • Are You Ready for Gen Z?

  • Best Mobile Apps

  • An App for To-Do Lists

  • Small Business Borrowing Is Down

  • Entity Can Change Form without Losing Qualified Tax Status

  • Employees Can Adjust Withholding During the Year

  • Easy Ways to Boost Morale

  • Post events on WomensCalendar

  • When Closing a Business Keep the Records

  • Online Sales Tax Simplification Act of 2016

  • Appification of Small Business

  • Removing Negative Online Reviews

  • National Preparedness Month

  • Tools to Pay Your Bills

  • Tax Deadlines

  • Which Generation Is Most Prepared?

  • Revised Form 5500-EZ

  • Tenant Allowance: Taxable or Tax Free?

  • 15th Anniversary of the Terrorist Attacks

  • Kabbage 'Elevator Pitch' contest

  • Cardless Cash

  • How U.S. Corporate Tax Rate Compares with Rates Worldwide

  • Sharing Economy Tax Resource Center

  • Do You Have a Sexual Harassment Policy?

  • Labor Day - Labour Day

  • Older Workers Staying on Jobs

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  • IRS Priority Guidance Plan for 2016-2017

  • Inc. 5000 for 2016

  • Highway Use Tax Return Due Today

  • Scholarships for Budding Entrepreneurs

  • Tax Relief for Louisiana Storm Victims

  • Cost of MBA Can Be Deductible

  • New Gig Economy Business Model?

  • Free Online Document Storage

  • Intuit Partners with Etsy

  • Changes Coming to S Corporation Taxation?

  • Americans Are Not Redeeming Travel Points

  • Tips to Protect Your Business from Cybercrime

  • Entrepreneurship in Decline

  • What Are Consumers Doing with Savings from Gas Prices?

  • Do You Protect Your passwords?

  • New Form for Research Credit

  • Increased Cap for Flexible Spending Accounts?

  • Real Buying Power of $100

  • Mobile Office Phone Solution

  • 30-Year-Olds: Then and Now

  • Left Hander’s Day

  • NRF Upgrades Economic Forecast

  • Online Tutorials for R&D Funding

  • Partners Cannot Be Employees

  • Portable Retirement Savings Plans for Low-Wage Workers?

  • No Deduction for Bonuses to Owner’s Children

  • Tax Foundation’s Monthly Map Club

  • Regulatory Changes Negatively Impacting Small Businesses

  • No Regulation without Representation Act

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  • Payroll Solutions for Small Businesses

  • Granting a Leave of Absence

  • Qualified Plans: File Annual Return Today

  • Your Decision-Making Style

  • Emojis in Business Email

  • Chatbots for Customer Service?

  • United State of Women Summit

  • MIT Flex-Time Program

  • Beware of Fake OSHA Claims

  • Prepare for Sales Tax Holiday

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  • Attorney’s Sideline of Restoring Cars Not a Hobby

  • Brother’s INKvestment Program

  • Working Remotely on the Rise

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  • IRS Initiatives for Cyber Security Next Year

  • Sale of Business to Ex-Spouse

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  • Manta’s Marketing Support

  • Venture Capital from a Cereal Company?

  • Tax Credit for Buying an Electric Vehicle

  • Tax Savings from Section 179 Deduction

  • FEMA App

  • Tax Refund Withheld for GSA Debt

  • Certain First-Class Mail Postage to Increase

  • Empowerment Zones Unchanged

  • Tax Court Reminder on Keeping Mileage Records

  • Fine Increased for Posting Violations

  • Independence Day (Federal Holiday)

  • Transgender Health Benefits

  • Sales Tax Increases

  • Canada Day

  • Deadline Today for FBAR Filing

  • Extension for Work Opportunity Credit Deadline

  • Small Businesses Face Hiring Challenges

  • Small Business Health Care Relief Act

  • Intuit’s Firm of the Future Contest

  • Encrypt Your Email?

  • SMBs Remain Wary of Online Backup

  • Nearly One-Third of Small Businesses Lack a Website

  • Family Responsibilities Discrimination Cases Are Up

  • Business Licenses

  • Supreme Court Sides with Landowners

  • Father’s Day

  • IRS Warns about Payroll Spoofing

  • 5 Facts about the Small Employer Health Insurance Credit

  • Number of Schedule C Filers Is Up

  • Second Installment of Estimated Taxes

  • Employer Shared Responsibility Tool

  • Multi-million Dollar Compensation Package Reasonable?

  • New Bill to Help Small Business Taxes

  • No Deduction for Nice Business Clothing

  • Entrepreneurship -- A Good Career Choice

  • IRS Admits Error

  • Where NOT to Die

  • Sharing Political Views?

  • Perks Preferred Over Pay Raises

  • Hiring Your Child this Summer?

  • Firing an Employee for Being Too “Cute”

  • Current Deduction for Shopper Rewards

  • Correcting ACA Information Returns

  • Voluntary IRS Certification for PEOs

  • Deadline for Sending Employer Health Care Forms to the IRS

  • Memorial Day (federal holiday)

  • Borrowing Up, Delinquencies Down

  • Advances to Your Corporation Aren’t Deductible

  • Tax all types of businesses the same?

  • Rethink Red Tape

  • What brands do you trust?

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  • Less Revenue, More Taxes?

  • Tax Refund Applied toward Payroll Taxes

  • State Income Tax on Nonresident Workers

  • Retiring before age 65 is a health risk?

  • A Profile of Small Business

  • Tax hike on small businesses in Illinois?

  • Relocation Costs Not Taxed

  • New Phase in Equity Crowdfunding

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  • Customer Tips Aren’t Gifts

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  • FedEx Small Business Grant Contest

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  • Bill to Simplify Tax Reporting for Mobile Workforce

  • Community Bank Measure Makes Headway

  • Mompreneurs on Mother’s Day

  • e-News from the IRS

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  • IRS Webinar Today on Worker Classification