Five Things To Help You Financially Next Year

Every year, I make goals.  Get in shape, eat better, spend more time with my family, read more.  However, I also try to make goals for my business.  Here are five things to think about to help your business financially  →

Celebrate Money Smart Week!

This week Colorado celebrates Money Smart Week.  The goal of the week is to help adults, business owners, and even children learn how to be better about their money.  As many of my readers know, I am going to be  →

It’s Tax Day!

But wait, it is April 18th, not April 15th?  So what is up with that?  Well, Tax Day typically falls on April 15th unless there is a federal holiday or the 15th is on the weekend.  This year, Washington DC  →

More online sales tax drama

In recent news, Arkansas is yet another state that has passed the so-called “Amazon Tax”. In addition, Connecticut and Hawaii are both looking at similar laws. As many of my readers know, this tax makes companies that use affiliate marketers  →

How long should I keep business records?

Businesses quickly become overwhelmed with the amount of papers flowing around. Credit card receipts, bank statements, contracts, leases, employment papers – all of these can become overwhelming without a good filing system, even if the filing system is digital. So  →

Online taxes everywhere! Oh my!

As many people remember, especially those that use to be Amazon affiliate marketers, last year Colorado passed a tax that in essence stated that is a company had affiliate marketers in Colorado, it had nexus to Colorado and had to  →

Email scam alert about federal tax payments

A phishing email has been going around for about a month now. In most instances, if you have gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc then it is going to your spam folder.  But just in case, if you get an email that  →

Turkeys for Employees? Beware the IRS!

One of the memories I have of working at UPS was every Thanksgiving, a truck would be loaded with turkeys.  Each employee would grab his or her holiday gift on the way out of the facility carrying the frozen box  →

Can I be sued there?

Today’s Legal Minute for Small Businesses: The last thing a small business owner needs is to be defending a lawsuit in a state that the small business owner doesn’t live in.  Unfortunately, that is exactly what can happen if the  →

Quarter Third 941s

Today’s Legal Minute for Small Businesses: If you are required to prepare 941s, please make sure to prepare and file your third quarter 941s this month.  If you are mailing them, you should mail them certified mail, return receipt requested.  →