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Starting an eCommerce Business? Bookkeeping Basics You Need to Know

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Just like a traditional brick-and-mortar business, your eCommerce business needs a good bookkeeping system for essential functions like tracking revenues and expenditures and filing tax returns. If you opt for manual bookkeeping, you’ll need to import all your information from your bank account into your ledger.

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What is the difference between sales tax and VAT?

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Businesses must track and document the VAT they pay on purchases to receive a credit for the VAT paid on their tax return. Under a VAT regime , tax jurisdictions receive tax revenue throughout the entire supply chain, not just at the point of sale to the final consumer. What triggers the tax administration requirement?

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Business Tax Rates: How Much Do Small Businesses Pay in Taxes?

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The IRS taxes corporations as separate legal entities, which opens them up to double taxation. The IRS then taxes them at the corporate income tax rate. Shareholders still must file their personal income tax returns and report the corporate dividends and capital gains they get as part of their taxable income.