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The Tax Complexities of Diverse Service Bundling

Diverse offerings, like bundled services your business clients may feature, can be attractive to consumers, but the tax implications can get complicated. Moreover, some of these services may even present the same tax obligations or associated regulations. Communications tax is different than regular ol’ sales tax, which is typically based

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15 Tax Breaks for Self-Employed Clients

Self-employed workers have become a prominent demographic amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Labour Market Information Council reports that in Canada, as much as 73 percent of self-employed people are working for their solely-owned businesses. While the numbers are less clear in the U.S., where nearly anyone can set up an LLC, the chances are that

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Optimize Your Employer Brand to Attract Top Talent

It’s being called the “Great Resignation.” In 2020, the pandemic brought into clear focus what today’s workers value: work-life balance, working remotely and a shared cultural fit. Not all employers recognized this swing—but they are feeling the effects of it. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, four million

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How to Add Opening Balance in Zoho Books? Explained

Zoho Books is a simplified accounting application with the aid of small business owners. It is crucial that you enter your business details in the records when you have switched from another software to Zoho Books. One of the most critical components of these records is the opening balance of

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Consumer Use Tax and Business Liability

If you have a client that is a new seller, are you aware that consumer use tax is just as obligatory as sales tax?  Many sellers overlook this fact and fail to report it properly. Where there’s sales tax, there’s usually use tax — most states that levy sales tax

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New Ways of Driving Value for Today’s Firms

After a crisis, we often look back at the way things were before and find them quaint. The ways in which we measured performance and value before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic now seem outdated. Historic drivers like scope, scale and efficiency are rapidly being replaced by new and transformative value drivers

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GRI revises universal sustainability standards, with focus on human rights

The Global Reporting Initiative unveiled its revised Universal Standards on Tuesday to reflect due diligence expectations for organizations to manage their sustainability impacts, including on human rights. GRI anticipates the revised standards will be used by the more than 10,000 companies already using its standards for their sustainability reporting. The

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Self-Employment Tax Plot Unraveled by Court

In a new case decided by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Slaughter, CA-11 No. 20-10786, 8/3/21, a famous author of crime novels was held liable for underreported self-employment income. Generally, a self-employed individual must pay federal income tax as well as self-employment tax on the net self-employment income received during

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Facing QuickBooks Error 400? This is What You Need to Do

It is easy to work on QuickBooks until the coding errors start showing up. One recurrent trigger text in the software is the “QuickBooks Error 400: The remote server returned an error – Bad Request.” The most common situation where this error comes up is when the server cannot establish

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