Entries for April 2010

By Guest Blogger Reg Baker, CPA (702) 360-2823 If you are self-employed; beware! The Internal Revenue Service plans to increase audits of the self-employed by checking for unreported or understated income during correspondence audits. Estimates by the IRS show that at least $68 billion of the tax gap (tax gap is defined as the difference between...

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When naming your business, it's important to check the public records to be sure there isn't any other business already using the name.   I received a call today from a client who wanted to use the plural version of a name already in use for the exact same business.  In support of his using the name, he said that the city business licens...

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By Guest Blogger Rich Vallari Southwest Sales Tax Solutions (702) 283-4686 Nevada Use Tax may be an area of exposure for individuals and businesses that purchase goods from out of state. Nevada Use Tax is imposed upon property purchased for storage, use or consumption within Nevada. As a corollary to Nevada Sales Tax, Nevada Use Tax is imposed up...

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After suffering for years with the dough-in-the-can and graduating to the dough-in-the-bag from the store, I finally decided to put my cherry red KitchenAid 90th Anniversary stand mixer to work on pizza dough.  It came out absolutely delicious, fluffy and crispy, and it was much easier than I thought it would be.  And so I share... Pizza...

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A new client will often present me with a thick file folder full of e-mails, faxes, letters, receipts, and handwritten notes, all in disarray.  One of the most time-consuming yet unproductive tasks I undertake is getting this kind of file into some logical order.  As the client, you know far more about the situation than your lawyer does ...

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