2016 Decrease in Standard Mileage Rate – Tax Season Countdown
How to Plan for the IRS Standard Mileage Rate Change in 2016 Attention all food trucks operators, delivery drivers and road warrior marketers! (Oh, and anybody using their automobile for business purposes? You'd better listen up, too.) The IRS has changed the standard mileage rate. As you might remember, the standard mileage rate is one of the ways…
“Can I Write It Off?” – Business-Related Gifts
Wondering if you can write off business-related gifts on your 2016 tax return? Here's everything you need to know. Say what you will about the commercialism of Valentine's Day, it's great for working folks! Our office was awash with chocolates, cookies, flowers, cards, and boxes of those chalk-textured conversation hearts. (#FunToRead #GrossToEat) Of course, we sent our…
2016 Tax Season Countdown: February
Want a stress-free tax season? Here's the stuff you need to do and when you need to do it. My mom used to always grumble when Christmas advertisements showed up a week before Thanksgiving. “They're ruining the holiday,” she said. I remember thinking Um, you're crazy…who doesn't want to think about Christmas as soon as possible?!…
Xero + Shopify – A Marriage Made in Cloud Accounting Heaven
Our favorite cloud-based accounting system just got awesomer. We didn't think Ben & Jerry's could get any better. Then they put a cookie core in it and blew our minds. That's about how we felt when we heard that Xero, our favorite cloud-based accounting system, was combining forces with e-commerce engine Shopify. In case you haven't…
