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Why It Might be Time for Your Small Business to Migrate to Cloud Accounting

Cloud accounting is a big idea that brings with it a lot of lofty implications, but if you had to distill all of that down to its bare essentials it would probably look at lot like this:

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QuickBooks Tip: Customizing QuickBooks' Forms

The invoices and other forms you send to customers and vendors should reflect your company’s attention to detail, accuracy, and consistency.

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Don't Toss Those Tax Records Yet!

Even though the 2021 tax due date has come and gone, and even though you have filed your 2021 tax return, you may still need to keep your 2021 tax records. Generally, tax records are retained for two reasons: (1) in case the IRS or a state agency decides to question the information on your tax returns or (2) to keep track of the tax basis of your capital assets so that you can minimize your tax liability when you dispose of those assets.

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You May Not Get a Tax Refund Next Year

With all of the tax reform changes and the corresponding reductions in most taxpayers’ income tax withholding, there are serious concerns that the reduction in withholding, although providing more take-home pay now, could end up resulting in unexpected taxes due at tax time next year. For that reason, taxpayers should be overly cautious about their payroll withholding for 2018. One need only look at the W-4 instructions to realize that an individual without any substantial tax training can quickly become lost when filling out the worksheets. It is not business as usual.

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Understanding the Health Insurance Mandate

As of 2014, the Affordable Care Act imposed the new requirement that all people in the United States, with certain exceptions, have minimum essential health care insurance or they will be subject to a penalty. How this affects your family will depend upon a number of issues. Penalty ends after 2018.

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