Category Archives: Accounting

First Time Doing Taxes Online? 4 Resources That Make E-Filing Easy by @DeborahSweeney

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As the due date for tax day on April 15th gets closer and more people get comfortable filing federal and state taxes online (with more than 80% using IRS e-file on their taxes), it’s easy for any business owner new to e-filing to feel nervous about what websites to get started with first. Where’s the best site to go to if they have questions in a sea of Google search results? How can they take boxes of shoeboxes filled with paperwork and transfer it over to the cloud? And what if they still want to be walked through the process with an accountant – are there any sites that offer that ability without having to drive over to an office? The answers to all of these questions and more for the first time e-filer can be found in some of my favorite resources for filing taxes.

12 Tax Return Organization Tips for Filing Your 2012 Tax Return by @StickelCPA

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by Lisa Stickel, CPA | Featured Contributor The majority of your tax documents that you will need for your 2012 tax return are required to be mailed out to you by January 31, 2013. What this means is a lot of extra mail in your mailbox either on the street or on your computer. Based…

How to Use The Home Office Deduction To Your Advantage by @ThriveConsultKY

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by Holli S. Powell, CPA | Featured Contributor When you start working for yourself, it seems one of the first questions everyone asks you is “are you writing off the costs of your home office?”  Or, “don’t take the home office deduction or you’ll get audited.”  When I get calls from clients, this is typically…