With National Small Business Week recently passed, it’s a good time to look at how business owners appear on their personal tax returns. The IRS’s ...

May 2-5, 2022, is National Small Business Week. It is a time to recognize the important contributions that small businesses make—to their families, their employees, ...

COVID-19 started a revolution in remote work arrangements. Initially, workers were forced to work from their homes because of government-mandated shutdowns. Then, workers continued working ...

When you start a business, your goal is to bring in revenue so you can meet your financial obligations (e.g., pay the rent, cover your ...

Despite the persistence of the pandemic and the fact that some many employees continue to work remotely, Valentine’s Day is still a time for romance, ...

Combat fatigue, according to the dictionary, is a psychological disturbance caused by prolonged exposure to active warfare, especially being under bombardment. But this sounds a ...

If you engage independent contractors and pay them in the aggregate $600 or more during the year, you must report payments to them and to ...

With the “Great Resignation,” in which 4.2 million employees quit their jobs in just October 2021, small business owners need to be smart about handling their ...

There’s no getting around it…high inflation is having an impact on small businesses. The historic average rate of inflation is between 2% and 3%. Since June ...

The annual national holiday of Thanksgiving for many businesses is the official start of the holiday shopping season. For some businesses, this period represents their ...

Late with filing a tax return with the IRS? Didn’t correctly figure and pay what you owe? Did something you weren’t supposed to do? Don’t ...

Today’s challenges to small business owners are immense. COVID-19 aside (which, of course, is hard to put aside), there are challenges from the marketplace as ...

It’s axiomatic that small business owners are optimists who, as Winston Churchill said, “see the opportunity in every difficulty.” Why else would they risk everything—their ...

More and more people are working from home. The pandemic introduced many workers and business owners to this environment and, with the ebbing of COVID-19, ...

Small business owners have been through a lot in the past months. Many have seen substantial declines in revenues, some have had to pivot their ...

This year has been a very difficult one for small business owners. Some tax rules have made it a little easier to defer some taxes ...

Most insurance policies run annually, and many business owners automatically renew their coverage without reviewing what is and is not covered. Now is a good ...

The world first heard about the coronavirus a month ago. Yet it has intruded on many aspects of life and certainly has a negative economic ...