Accounting, bookkeeping, and tax tips to help you understand your small business finances.

7 Common Small Business Growth Mistakes and How To Avoid Them

As small businesses grow, they face brand new challenges. With this guide, you'll know what these challenges are and how to tackle them.

Tax Tips

What is the IRS Fresh Start Program?

The IRS Fresh Start program makes it easier for struggling taxpayers to resolve their tax debt and get back in good standing. Is it right for you?

Tax Tips

Understanding Your CP504: A Breakdown

A CP504 is one of your last chances to repay your IRS balance without triggering further penalties, collection action, levies, and even liens on your property.

Tax Tips

When Are Taxes Due? 2023 Filing & Extension Deadlines

Filing deadlines can creep up on you. Take a few minutes to save these 2023 tax filing deadlines to your calendar, and stay ahead of the IRS this year.

Tax Tips

Five Ways to Pay Off IRS Tax Debt

Unpaid tax debt affects many small business owners, but paying back that debt doesn't have to be stressful with these five tips.

Tax Tips

How an IRS Audit Works—and How to Prevent One

It's normal to be afraid of the IRS. But when you know what all the penalties are, and how to avoid them, the IRS will seem less scary.

Tax Tips

Estimated (Quarterly) Tax Payments Calculator

Having to calculate and pay estimated quarterly taxes four times a year may seem like a chore. But it can actually ease your burden come tax time.

Operations

How to Pay Yourself as a Business Owner, by Entity Type

The best way to pay yourself from your small business depends on your small business structure, your business’s development stage, and your respective tax obligations. Here's how to decide what makes sense for you.

Learn what happened to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the details behind their collapse, and the ways SMBs can protect themselves against similar situations.

Banking

The Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank: What Business Owners Need to Know

Learn what happened to Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the details behind their collapse, and the ways SMBs can protect themselves against similar situations.

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