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Financial vs Tax Accounting

SMBAccountant

One type of accounting that is well-known is tax accounting. According to Investopedia, tax accounting is “a structure of accounting methods focused on taxes rather than the appearance of public financial statements”. Tax accounting applies to individuals, businesses, and corporations.

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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

TaxConnex

Your sales tax obligations depend on knowledge and that knowledge often resides in a professional tax specialist (usually an accountant) who helps your company meet its sales tax obligations. This is a complicated time for sales tax obligations – and a terrible time to try to hire an accountant.

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Why you should have separate bookkeepers and tax accountants

Basis 365

It's OK to ask an outsourced accountant for help with your daily books. Before we get into the reasons, let's first look at how the duties of accountants and bookkeepers differ. This will allow you and your accountant to make better financial decisions. Why not hire bookkeepers and tax accountants for the year?

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Shutting Down a Tech Company – Some Tax/Accounting Tips

Shay CPA

Specifically, you should look at: Payroll accounts, including withholding, Department of Labor, and state unemployment insurance accounts. Sales tax accounts. State franchise and income tax accounts. File away R&D tax credit and pandemic aid documentation. File a final corporate tax return.

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4 Key Pieces of Your Sales Tax Compliance Process

TaxConnex

Both the process of reporting sales tax and the level of sales tax detail required varies from state to state. Some reporting requirements that should be considered in your sales tax compliance process are: 1. Returns are typically due either monthly, quarterly, or annually. Know your Deadlines.

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Understanding use tax

TaxConnex

One such phrase is “sales and use tax.”. We sure know what “salestax is. What about Use Tax? Use tax is defined ?as as a tax on the storage, use or consumption of a taxable item or service on which no sales tax has been paid. Use tax or sales tax is due on a sale, but not both.

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Top 3 Tax-Efficient Strategies for Deferring Real Estate Gains

Cherry Bekaert

1031 Exchange A 1031 exchange, also known as a “like-kind exchange,” is named after Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code and allows investors to defer capital gains tax by exchanging real property held for business or investment purposes for similar real property that will also be held for business or investment purposes.