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THE ECONOMIC STIMULUS package signed by President Bush on Wednesday includes two significant tax breaks for small-business owners. The provisions, designed to encourage business spending, come in the form of bigger depreciation write-offs:
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A House Small Business Committee hearing was called this week to examine a trend that is alarming small businesses across the country. A growing number of states are imposing so-called "business activity" taxes on companies that have a connection, or "nexus," with the state. A nexus can exist, even though a business has no employees or physica
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MoreBusiness.com releases a new center featuring tips and tricks on preparing small business taxes. Visitors can learn about small business tax deductions, view a 12-point tax to-do checklist and access useful forms, links and tax tools.
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Businesses are big winners in the economic stimulus package signed into law earlier this year. They may not be getting rebate checks, but they are getting showered with $45 billion in tax breaks designed to spur them on to purchase more equipment, cars and other assets sooner rather than later.
Congress boosted the limit on first-year expensin
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The federal government's in-house advocate for small businesses released a list of 10 regulations that agencies should review, including simplifying the home office business deduction. This regulatory change would benefit millions of home-based businesses, many of which now don't take the deduction because of its complexity and the fear it would
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Advocates for small businesses are fighting changes in tax laws that the Bush administration says are aimed at cracking down on tax cheating, particularly by the self-employed. These changes will create a mountain of new paperwork that will be cumbersome and costly.
One proposal, part of President Bush’s budget, would require detailed reporting
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Small-business owners take note: Changes in the tax code this year could add a few dollars to your coffers. But you could be in for colossal headaches if you've been sloppy in your record keeping.
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The New York State legislature has passed a law requiring online retailers to collect sales tax on items shipped to New York inhabitants, regardless of the retailer's base of operations.
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Federally speaking, there are a wide variety of tax benefits for small businesses. Many depend on the type of business you own. One of the most fundamental, but dramatic, is available to LLCs and corporations with S-status. If they're eligible, they only pay tax at the shareholder/owner level, as opposed to paying at the corporate level and again
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Intuit's TurboTax and H&R Block's TaxCut might be the most popular tax software for do-it-yourselfers, but they're certainly not the only ones that can do the job.
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