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Keep Your Self-Employment Taxes Down This Year! View Tax Reduction Strategies for Spouse-Owner BusinessesIf you own a profitable, unincorporated business with your spouse, you're probably fed up with high self-employment (SE) tax bills. An unincorporated business in which both spouses are active is typically treated as a partnership that's owned 50/50 by the spouses — or a limited liability company (LLC) that's treated...
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Factoring Uncertainty into the Value of Your BusinessBusiness valuation professionals are no strangers to dealing with market uncertainties—and neither are business owners and investors. The approach to valuing a business interest doesn't change because of the uncertainties surrounding the current political environment.
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Managing the Ups and Downs of Seasonal BusinessesWhat do pumpkin patches, ski resorts, ice cream shops and accounting firms have in common? They're all seasonal businesses that experience a surge in revenues during their busy seasons that tapers off in the slow season. Seasonal peaks and troughs present challenges that require creative planning and fiscal prudence. Understand...
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Got Questions About the New Overtime Rule?The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recently released some Q&As about the new federal overtime rule, which goes into effect on December 1, 2016. Under the final rule, the standard salary level used to determine whether executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) employees are eligible to receive overtime will...
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Transfer Business Ownership or Remain Boss?For family business owners, estate planning can be a challenge. Often, most if not all of their wealth is tied up in their companies, which creates a conflict between the desire to transfer ownership to the next generation and the desire to stay in control. One potential solution is to...
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Client Success StoryA business owner's 20-year experience with a competent attorney. This documentary explores the 20-year experience that Ed and Georgette Stormo had growing from a small entity to over a 30 Million Dollar corporation with over 225 employees. It demonstrates the critical role a competent attorney plays through a business owner's...
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DOL Gets Tough on Independent Contractor Classification"The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) continues to receive numerous complaints from workers alleging misclassification, and the Department continues to bring successful enforcement actions against employers who misclassify workers," said a detailed document issued July 15. The Administrator's Interpretation 2015-1 is from David Weil, who heads the...
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Do You Have Employees? This WILL Affect YOU!NOW IT PAYS TO BE SICK IN CALIFORNIA! Date: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 Time: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Location: Goralka Law Firm Training Center: 4470 Duckhorn Drive, Sacramento, CA 95834 Speaker: Dejon Hart, Regional Payroll Specialist Accountant Centric If you only have ONE employee, this will affect you! Effective...
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Consider a GRAT to Transfer a BusinessSuccession planning for your real estate business can be daunting. Along with selecting the right family member or other individual to carry on the business, you must weigh a variety of tax and financial planning issues. Some closely held business owners have found it pays to use a grantor retained...
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Small Business Reprieve on Health Premium Reimbursement PlansHistorically, companies that wanted their employees to be protected with health coverage, but didn't want the hassle of having a company health plan, could simply give employees an amount of money sufficient to reimburse them for the cost of buying that coverage or some portion of it. As long as...
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Tax Savings on the Sale or Transfer of Personal GoodwillIf you're planning on selling/buying a business or transferring a business to a related party, then you need to be aware of the existence of goodwill and the tax effects. The ownership of the goodwill, by either the business entity or a key employee, may affect the tax treatment from...
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Succession Planning Lessons From TaiwanAnalysts fear for the future of the Taiwanese economy because of the failures of large family-owned businesses to come up with workable succession plans. Family-owned United States companies can learn some lessons from the potential crisis. In Taiwan it is normal for even extremely large multinational businesses to follow the...