Your Tax Place, Inc. - Tax Savings Strategies

  As we approach year end, everyone begins to wonder, "HOW MUCH MONEY WILL I OWE FOR TAXES for 2022?" As a business owner, it is extremely important to have a PROFIT/LOSS statement that either you prepare for yourself or hire a bookkeeper to prepare for you. Here is how you can figure out the taxes that you may owe by using your last Profit/Loss statement for yourself. As a business owner, nobody except YOU is required to automatically withhold taxes from your pay. And unless you withhold and pay your own taxes, YOU CAN EXPECT TO OWE TAXES ON THE PROFIT THAT YOU MADE. The only way that you will NOT OWE MONEY, is if you did NOT MAKE ANY PROFIT or YOU OVERPAID YOUR TAXES with having children or with estimated tax payments. If you don't generate a profit for any 3 of the last 5 years, the IRS will not let you claim to be a business owner any longer and take a deduction for those expenses. This is VERY DIFFERENT for first time business owners to understand. So, PLEASE R...

  Do you pay your workers as EMPLOYEES or CONTRACTORS? With the NEW YEAR now here, it's TIME TO GET THIS RIGHT! One of the most recent HOT TOPICS with both the IRS and the DOL is to investigate businesses for the MISCLASSIFICATION of their WORKERS. For the past few years, businesses have misclassified their workers as contractors instead of employees in order to save 7.65% in matching payroll taxes. Because these businesses have been able to get by without being monitored and corrected, these business owners have become comfortable with this process and don't think they are doing anything wrong. In fact, because a lot of businesses have been operating this way, new business owners starting up the same business believe that it is ok to operate like this as well. The IRS has been aware of this problem and now are about to use their newly hired employees to become very aggressive about correcting this KNOWN PROBLEM to assess back withholding taxes and penalties to those ...