Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve loved watching NFL Football. Before we in North Carolina had a home team of our own, I was always a ‘Niners fan. But for the past decade or so, I’ve become what you might reasonably call a rabid Carolina Panthers devotee. So it was with great excitement […]
What Makes Travel Expenses Tax Deductible?
Here’s a little pop quiz. Which of these trips are tax deductible? Flying to Vancouver for a 3-day conference, then tacking on a side trip to Whistler for the weekend. Temporarily moving to another state for work. Traveling around the U.S. in your pickup truck while working as a freelance photographer. If you answered “all […]
Marketing & Advertising — What’s Tax Deductible?
The most popular article on my site, for some reason, has always been my original post on advertising expenses. Here’s an updated version. Almost any type of business-related advertising is a tax deductible expense in the year the money is spent, so long as it’s ordinary, necessary, and reasonable. Generally, for a business expense to […]
Independent Contractor or Employee?
The first article I ever wrote for this site, way back in 2011, was about this subject — the seemingly always relevant and never easily decided matter of worker classification. A few things have happened in the intervening four years to warrant an update: Despite the agency’s continued budget cuts, worker misclassification remains a priority […]
Six Reasons To Try Xero Accounting Software Today
How did your tax-info-gathering process go this year? Did you spend hours (or days) scrambling to tally shoeboxed receipts for your accountant? Did you go through the assorted hoops of creating a Quickbooks “accountant’s copy” only to discover — whoops! — that you and your CPA have different, incompatible versions? Do you even know how […]
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