5 Overlooked Auto Deductions For Small Business Taxes
Taking the standard mileage rate or business percent of your auto expenses is pretty clear to most entreprenuers. As an entrepreneur, all expenses used to legitimately start, expand or maintain your business are deductible regardless of your income – including your auto expenses. Taking the standard mileage rate or business percent of your auto [...]
Build a Business From a Hobby
Dr. Susan Biali, MD wrote a piece in the March 9, 2012 edition of Psychology Today’s blog “Prescriptions For Life” suggesting that even if we can’t quit the job that pays the bills, it may be good for our mental well being to also participate in making a go at doing something we love as [...]
Crowdfunding – Creative Financing for Startups
Easily the biggest business killer of a new startup business is the lack of access to financing to get the business off the ground. At the MoneyTalks Cafe we encourage small business owners to create and continually update their business plans. But often business plans for young fledgling businesses are more indicative of aspirations [...]
Start up Businesses -Turnkey Websites
It’s a great time to start a small business. One quick and easy way is to purchase a turnkey website using sites like Flippa.com (a site whose biz model is similar to Ebay, but that specializes in the buying and selling of websites for anywhere from the start-up rookie to the more experienced e-commerce business [...]
The Newer, Younger, Better Way to Make Money
It’s crucial to get the inside tips from people who have already found money-making success if you want to follow in their footsteps. That’s why you should check out this video: It’s a bunch of the world’s top young entrepreneurs (like Michael Dunlop and Adam Horwitz) sharing a little bit of inspiration with whoever has [...]
3 Start Up Business MUSTS!!!
So you’ve decided to try to take your finances by the horns and started your own business. Congratulations!!! Whether you started a new full-time enterprise or are still working while operating a business part time until it can support you or whether you just want a small business on the side to supplement your income [...]
5 Tax Tips For Year End Tax Planning
Its November now and time to start preparing for our year end tax planning meetings. The tax code is so fluid and has been rapidly changing over the past few years that some of the things tax accountants were worried about at the beginning of the year have been repealed while others have been clarified. [...]
HIRING YOUR CHILD IS GOOD BUSINESS
My son has been playing baseball since kindergarten – thirteen years now. Anyone with children active in organized extracurricular activities knows the expense can be daunting. In our case, its $300 for a bat (that may or may not pop), batting lessons, pitching lessons, catching lessons, batting cages, new batting gloves, new mitts, new uniforms [...]