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7 Ways Small Business Owners Can Borrow Money

Perhaps they want their business to expand, or maybe they’re just having cash flow issues. Whatever the need is, your business-owning clients often have a love/hate relationship with banks. The reason is simple: Your client needs money. Banks are in the business of lending it. Many people have often felt

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IRS Issues Guidance on Tax Filing Extension

The IRS has now clarified some of the rules relating to the extension in Notice 2021-21 (IR-2021-67, 3/29/21). Background: The normal tax filing due date returns and paying any resulting tax is April 15 (or the next business day if the 15th falls on a holiday or weekend). However, this

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How to Encrypt Client Data on Your Personal Device

In my previous article on keeping data secure while working remotely, I covered steps to take to ensure your devices and those of your employees are protected from data breaches while everyone is working from home. The next best practice to implement is data encryption. I recommend being thorough and

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How Did the TCJA Impact Deductions on 2020 Taxes?

2017 was almost over when Congress approved and then-president Donald John Trump signed the TCJA, short for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Both its supporters and opponents agree that there can be no two opinions about whether enacting tax reductions was Mr. Trump’s signature legislative accomplishment. Those who praise

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QuickBooks Cash, Payroll Insights and More Coming

New updates from Intuit and the QuickBooks team this month include QuickBooks Cash coming to QuickBooks Online Accountant, a payroll insights dashboard, simplified search within QBO Accountant and the opening of Accountant Council applications. QuickBooks Cash in QuickBooks Online Accountant Intuit has started rolling out to accountants and their firms

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Five Tips for Disengaging With a Client

Issues with clients often happen, but when it becomes disruptive to a positive working relationship, it is usually best to move on and hopefully amicably. In this blog post, Jody Linick shares her personal experience about the right things to do when it comes time to disengaging with a client.

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The Maryland Digital Ad Tax’s Possible Impact

Maryland’s newly minted digital advertising tax went into effect recently, but for how long remains an enigma, as a coalition of technology and business organizations have mounted a compelling legal challenge. The coalition in the civil case says in their lawsuit that the new law violates three specific laws: The

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Signs Your Accounting System is Holding You Back

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3 Powerful Benefits of Funded Buy-Sell Agreements

Private businesses have many safeguards in place to ensure that they remain independent after an event such as the death or retirement of an owner. It’s best to decide beforehand what would happen to this person’s shares in the company. How do they do this? The answer is funded buy-sell

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