Tax, Tax And More Tax. What A Bummer! Here’s How To Handle It.
When you run a business, it can feel like you spend far too much of your time worrying about tax. Here’s a quick guide to the what you need to know about tax.
What Do You Qualify For?
There are all sorts of tax breaks for home and small businesses, to try and make it easier for them to survive. To qualify for them, though, you will need to be using your home as the primary place where you do business. If most of what you do takes place in some space elsewhere that you rent, then you won’t qualify for home business tax rules. You also are unlikely to qualify if you haven’t set aside a specific part of your home as the ‘business area’. Be prepared for the fact that you might be audited, to make sure that you are running a legitimate business from your home.
Records You Need to Keep.
You need to keep records of everything — literally everything — you spend on your home business. You should especially keep records of things when their use might be shared between personal and business, such any business-related travel expenses you run up...