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How to Stay on Top of Your Tax Obligations

Ronika Khanna CPA,CA

Table of Contents As an accountant I frequently receive panicked calls from business owners who have received ominous letters from the tax authorities requesting that overdue tax returns be immediately filed. Others receive notices of assessments for estimated taxes payable if they have an overdue tax return.

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Lost Accounting Data – Emergency Plan for Limited Company Contractors

Cheap Accounting

Some times accountancy data can be lost. They say that “a reasonable excuse is something that stopped you meeting a tax obligation that you took reasonable care to meet”. The first step in your recovery plan will be to establish a clean starting point – the last date at which you have your accounting data available.

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Calculating the benefits of direct tax software

ThomsonReuters

As the burden of corporate tax compliance mounts, companies are increasingly turning to tax and accounting firms for help in complying with direct tax requirements. That ’ s why it is essential for firms to have a robust corporate tax technology platform in place.

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Thomson Reuters Steps Into Mobile SMB Accounting

PYMNTS

Thomson Reuters is stepping into the world of mobile small business accounting with the launch of a new app, OnBalance Express. The tool allows users to log expenses through the use of optical character recognition (OCR) technology to automate entry of receipt data into businesses’ accounting systems.

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10 Tips for Setting up Your QBO File for the first time

Ronika Khanna CPA,CA

The idea of using an accounting software can be a bit intimidating for some new business owners. While a spreadsheet makes sense when you have a simple business with very few transactions per year, accounting software has significantly more functionality. There are two options here – accrual or cash.

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What is a provision for income tax and how do you calculate it?

ThomsonReuters

A tax provision is just one type of provision that corporate finance departments set aside to cover a probable future expense. Other types of provisions a business typically accounts for include bad debts, depreciation, product warranties, pensions, and sales allowances. How provision for tax is calculated.

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What You Should Know After You Have Incorporated

Ronika Khanna CPA,CA

Maintain all your incorporation documentation, either physically in a file folder or scan it to accounting/corporate folder on your computer. This will be very useful when you are asked for your corporate documentation, business numbers etc. For many small corporations, not much needs to be done, from a tax perspective.

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