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What Should Small Businesses Look for with Payroll Services?

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Whether you’re switching providers or your staff has grown to the point that you need better management over payroll, it’s important to take the time to vet your potential payroll service.
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A Mid-Year Tax Checkup May Be Appropriate

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Taxes are similar to vehicles, in that they sometimes need a check-up to make sure they are performing as expected. That is especially true for 2018, with all of the changes brought about by tax reform.
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Payroll Vendors For San Francisco Small Businesses

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For some small businesses, there will come a time when the staff grows large enough to consider an outside service when dealing with payroll needs. There are pros and cons to going this route.
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What Makes Up A Balance Sheet?

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A balance sheet is absolutely critical to small business success, and here’s why: a balance sheet is the definitive single-sheet overview of what's bringing in cash and what's payout out cash.
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Marginal or Effective? Defining Tax Rates

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I talk with a lot to people about their taxes in my San Rafael office, both as individuals and as small business owners -- and one very common misunderstanding people present to me is when they say they know their tax rate.
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8 Tips for Small Business Owners After Taxes

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For Marin small business owners, January, February, and March are often a scramble to get taxes ready. We see it first hand at the San Rafael office of Books in Balance, as clients come to us with their bookkeeping and taxpreparation questions.
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Tax Tips for New Marin Businesses

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If you’ve started a new San Rafael business in 2018, one critical area to start thinking about early is your taxes. Starting a business comes with many tax implications, as well as many benefits. The exact type of logistics and benefits comes down to many different variables involved with your business, from the way things are set up to the way you pay your taxes.
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The Most Common Tax Forms Received by San Rafael Residents

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When the new year rolls around, each trip to your San Rafael mailbox probably requires keeping a sharper eye for tax forms. These usually come with big bold IMPORTANT TAX FORM INCLUDED on the outside. Various forms will arrive, and though they are technically required to be sent by the end of January, this doesn't always happen. You may also receive notifications in your email inbox about electronic versions available for secure download.
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How the GOP Tax Bill Affects San Rafael Residents

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Regardless of your politics, San Rafael residents will experience a significant change in how their taxes will be processed following the massive tax bill signed into law by the President just before Christmas. Even professionals such as myself are still just beginning to fully grasp the magnitude of this change. It's a lot to process, and unfortunately the bill was drafted rather hastily, so proper analysis takes time.
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What Are Common Home Office Tax Deductions?

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“Can I write it off?” I can't tell you how many times I hear that in my San Rafael office. Calculating deductions is the job of an Accountant or Tax Preparer but the bookkeeper is the first line of defense in preparing the source info, so I keep myself educated on the latest and most unique ways to approach tax deductions for home offices.