If you use a car or truck in your business in the US, the IRS has rules (of course). Here’s some highlights: Deductible Car and Truck Expenses What qualifies? Traveling from one work location to another within the taxpayer’s tax home area. (Generally, the tax home is the entire city or general area where the…
IR-2006-168, Nov. 1, 2006 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service today issued the 2007 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (including vans, pickups or panel trucks)…
UPDATE: NEW BRAGS! Are you in? I mean, are you in the Brag Basket? Why not? It’s simple. You tell us something great, we all applaud, and you can even have a banana. Thanks to our friend BJ who donated the graphic. By the way, the Brag Basket is always open! We may start on…
This fall, Intuit will integrate several Google services into QuickBooks 2007. While this made quite a splash in the business blogs, I’m not sure users are very aware of this yet. So, now that the dust has settled from the original announcement, let’s review. The Google marketing-related services that will be integrated in QB are:…
Melonie Murray, Small Biz Mentor, spotted a $5,000 sweepstakes from Avery: Would five grand help things pick up around your office? It’d sure help around mine! That’s why a new sweepstakes from Avery caught my eye today, and I just had to pass on the details to you as well. Turns out that Avery (yes,…
Michael Gurau is president of CEI Community Ventures Fund , an early-stage venture capital fund that finances growth-oriented businesses in targeted communities in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont. He writes in the New Hampshire Business Review, and his column on Friday was about building your business in a rural community. Here are some excerpts: Let’s…
UPDATE: New brags listed below!We don’t think there are enough chances to brag in the real world of small business, so we have gone bananas here. That’s why we have a Brag Basket. You can post a comment bragging about whatever wonderful thing from this week. If you feel a bit bananas yourself, you can…
Podcast:Becky interviews Pat Matthews, CEO of Webmail.us, Inc., based in Blacksburg, Virginia. Pat blogs at Small Town, Big Ideas. Pat talks about advantages of being in a small town, working with the community, and encouraging more small town entrepreneurs. Watch for a second interview with Pat on the Great Big Small Business Show. small biz…
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