Here are some tips for using QuickBooks’ Income Tracker QuickBooks’ provides numerous ways to learn about your company’s health. Income Tracker is one of the most effective. You can get an enormous amount of useful information from QuickBooks’ reports – especially if you customize them to isolate the precise data you want. Reports included with the […]
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Domestic Production Activities Deduction (DPAD)
Did you know that you could get a tax deduction for manufacturing goods in the United States? As incentive to get manufacturers to produce goods in the United States, taxpayers have the luxury of getting a tax deduction. How much of a deduction? As of 2010, a taxpayer can have a deduction of up to 9% […]
Net Operating Losses Provide Tax Benefits
For many businesses, profits vary from year to year. However, with proper planning, even a bad year can be helpful from a tax perspective. Where business deductions exceed gross income, a taxpayer may have a net operating loss (NOL) that can be used to offset income in another tax year, potentially generating a refund of […]
Tax Reductions – Depreciating Assets
Depreciation deductions can be extremely valuable for a business. For example, in a recent court case, a federal judge ruled a company could begin taking its depreciation deductions for two buildings housing retail stores at a point prior to when they were “open for business.” The ruling allowed the company to show a loss for […]
Part 3 on Tax Credit
Alright, last post to follow up the first 2. We apologize for the length, but it’s a lot of information to cover. Okay so we’ve got Research and Development Tax Credit along with Sales and Use Tax Exemptions. We’ll try to make it short and sweet. So with research and development, a tax credit […]
Cost Segregation Lowers Taxes for Atlanta Businesses
Cost segregation is the process of identifying your assets and classifying those assets correctly for the purpose of paying federal taxes. In this process, personal assets that are mixed with real property assets are separated out, so all assets can be depreciated properly and potentially increase your bottom line. Cost Segregation Studies A cost segregation […]