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Everything You Need to Know About Medical Practice Financing

Whether you are a physician with a well-established medical office, or you’ve just completed your residency and are getting set up, obtaining funding for a medical practice is different from applying for a standard business or personal loan.…

Here’s What Happened in the World of Small Business in June 2021

Here are five things that happened this past month that affect your small business. 1) There’s a tight labor market nationwide these days, and it’s giving workers more leverage. The economy’s recovery is giving low-wage workers more…
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Accounting for Restaurants: Setting Your Business up for Success

Operating a restaurant is a dream for many, but there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. There are far more restaurants and food-related businesses that fail than succeed, and that’s frequently because entrepreneurs spend more time focusing…
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Tax Planning to Help New Franchisees

Investment can be a wonderful opportunity, but it also involves a completely unfamiliar set of rules when it comes to your taxes. Whether you are considering becoming a franchisee or are already involved, it’s important that you have the support…
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Running a Trading Business – and What it Means for Your Taxes

The average American taxpayer is not aware that people who officially qualify as running a trading business receive special tax treatment. Their income comes from the profit they make by trading options, equities and other asset classes, and…
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How Employee Stock Options Are Taxed

Many companies, as an incentive to employees to help grow the companies’ market value, will offer stock options to key employees. The options give the employee the right to buy up to a specified number of shares of the company’s stock at…
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What Is a Joint Venture?

When multiple business entities make a decision to start a new business together as a cooperative arrangement, they form what is known as a joint venture. In creating a joint venture, each of the involved entities agrees to what assets they…
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Solar Tax Credit Extended for Two Years

A federal tax credit for the purchase and installation costs of a residential solar system has been extended through 2023. The credit for 2021 and 2022 is 26% of the cost of the solar installation but drops to 22% for 2023, the final year of…
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Day Trader Rules and Tax Treatment

Day trading is neither illegal nor unethical, but it can be highly risky. Most individual investors do not have the wealth, time, or temperament to make money or sustain the losses that day trading can bring. Day trading in securities is…