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I started building this website in January of 2021. It took me several months to design the layout and write the first batch of articles on starting and running a small business. I took the site live in May. From then on, I published one new article a week. Each… Read More »Starting and Running a Small Business: The First Full Circle
If you’ve read our general article on taxes, you know that a business has to deal with a lot of different types of taxes. One of these taxes is the sales or use tax (and their international equivalent—the VAT). These taxes come into play when you sell goods and, sometimes,… Read More »A Small Business’s Guide to Collecting Sales Tax, Use Tax, and VAT
In our last article, we talked about how small businesses must pay quarterly estimated income taxes. Then, at the end of the year, the business totals up its actual revenue and expenses and then calculates its true taxes based on actual income. You get the revenue and expenses numbers from… Read More »Income Tax Software for Small Businesses
Businesses have to pay income taxes. We touched on this briefly in our overview article on the types of taxes businesses have to pay. But, in the US, you have to pay your business’s income taxes in four quarterly payments. You can’t wait until the end of the year, figure… Read More »How to Calculate Quarterly Estimated Taxes, for Small Businesses
Businesses, like people, have to pay taxes. But, unlike people, most businesses have to pay a lot more types of taxes. Keeping track of and paying these taxes on time can get pretty complicated, pretty fast. This is why we wrote this tax guide for small businesses. In this series… Read More »Tax Guide for Small Businesses
Things don’t always work out. And this is true, too, where it comes to employees. Sometimes, it’s because the person you hired can’t or won’t do the job you need them to do. Other times, it’s you: you didn’t scope the job out correctly, so you hired a wrong set… Read More »How to Let an Employee Go, for Small Businesses
In the US, there are a lot of laws about how businesses should treat their employees. These employment rules and regulations apply to different sized businesses in different ways. Larger businesses can afford to hire lawyers to help them comply with these laws. But, as a small business, you don’t… Read More »US Employment Rules and Regulations: A Guide for Very Small Businesses
So far, 2023 has been a strange year for jobs. Very large companies have been doing mass layoffs—some of them have had multiple rounds already. But unemployment rate is still very low. As far as we can tell, small businesses are still having trouble recruiting new workers. So, now that… Read More »Great Job Posting Sites for Employers
Most people don’t like to do detailed, repetitive math. And payroll math is nothing but detailed and repetitive. It’s too easy to get things wrong and risk being fined. Traditionally, your accountant could handle payroll calculations for you. But, these days, there are a lot of small business payroll software… Read More »Great Small Business Payroll Software
When you start a business, you hope the business grows. But, sometimes, it grows and then it shrinks. You have to let employees go even though they didn’t do anything wrong. This is where unemployment insurance comes in. The employees can get a payout from the state government to tide… Read More »How Unemployment Insurance Works, for Small Businesses
