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Why is Good Bookkeeping so Difficult (and Important)?
TMA Accounting has been helping small businesses with their bookkeeping for nearly 25 years. While a lot can happen in 25 years, we appreciate our...
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Protect Your Company Retirement Plan from an IRS Attack
When your company sponsors a qualified retirement plan, you must comply with complex rules established by the IRS and the Department of Labor. Ignore...
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How does TMA Accounting Determine the Prices it Charges to Clients?
TMA determines our regular fees based on a formula we’ve developed that considers the volume and complexity of the work to be performed. This...
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2023 Q4 tax calendar: Key deadlines for businesses and other employers
Here are some of the key tax-related deadlines affecting businesses and other employers during the fourth quarter of 2023. Keep in mind that this...
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How Better Bookkeeping Helps Me Understand Profitability and Taxes
Often, small business owners juggle various responsibilities while trying to grow their business. Bookkeeping and tax compliance tasks often get less...
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What Services Does TMA Accounting Provide?
In the ever-changing landscape of running a small business, having a relationship with a reliable accounting firm can be a great asset to your...
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How to Transition to a New Accounting Firm
It is not uncommon for small business owners to find themselves working with an accounting firm that isn’t a great fit for their needs. A mismatch...
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What Can You Do to Lower Your 2023 Tax Obligation?
It's hard to believe that 2023 is already half over. Although summer is a time for vacations and relaxing in the backyard, you can't afford to take a...
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4 Strategies to Strengthen Your Small Business
Even at the best of times, the future is unpredictable. As anyone who has run a business for any length of time understands, there will often be...
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Beware of a 100% Personal Liability Penalty
A "100% penalty" can be assessed against a responsible person when federal income tax and/or federal employment taxes are withheld from employee...
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The advantages of using an LLC for your small business
If you operate your small business as a sole proprietorship, you may have thought about forming a limited liability company (LLC) to protect your...
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What You Should Expect from a Great Accounting Team
A Great Accounting Team AND YOUR NEEDS! One of the challenging things a small business owner must do is to create and maintain accurate and reliable...
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6 Types of Payroll Tax Obligations Employers Should Know
There's more to paying taxes than just federal and state income taxes. Another major tax chore for employers is payroll taxes. These expenditures can...
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Payroll Deduction IRAs Are a Cost-Free Benefit
If you've considered setting up a retirement plan for your employees and decided it was too costly or too much trouble, there is an alternative. No...
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Strong billing processes are critical to healthy cash flow
Once a business is up and running, one fundamental aspect of operations that’s easy to take for granted is billing. Often, a system of various...
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Risk Management: 8 Ways to Reduce Business Insurance Costs
How much money is your business spending on insurance products? Insurance is often a major business expense, and it can be a lifesaver when the...
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Midyear Tax Planning for Small Businesses and Owners
Summer isn't just for barbeques and baseball. It's also a good time to think about ways to cut your 2023 business tax bill. Here are four planning...
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Update on Luxury Auto Depreciation Deductions for Businesses
Federal income tax deductions for taxpayers who use passenger autos more than 50% for business were permanently expanded by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
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Federal Tax News For Businesses
What Certain IRS Notices Mean What does it mean if a business receives a Notice CP2100 or CP2100A from the IRS? These notices tell recipients that...
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Cutting the Kiddie Tax Down to Size
Despite its name, the "kiddie tax" is anything but child's play. If you're not careful, this provision of the tax code can result in children having...
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10 Payroll Issues for Small Businesses
You may not think of your small business's payroll function as risky. But if you don't properly handle certain payroll challenges, you may risk IRS...
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Deposit Interest into Five Tax Buckets
Interest rates rise and fall periodically, but the tax rules for deducting interest expenses remain the same — unless Congress changes them....
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2023 Q3 tax calendar: Key deadlines for businesses and other employers
Here are some of the key tax-related deadlines affecting businesses and other employers during the third quarter of 2023. Keep in mind that this list...
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What Employers Should Know about Health Savings Accounts
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are a tax-smart way to cover an individual's uninsured medical expenses, as well as certain other out-of-pocket...
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Can My Business Afford an Accounting Service?
Have you ever asked yourself the question, can my business afford an accounting service? My guess is yes. Generally, the small business owners we...
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Annual Accounting Services vs. Monthly Accounting Services
When starting a small business, determining how you’ll handle the bookkeeping, accounting, and taxes isn’t exactly the first thing people choose to...
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Estimating the Value of Your Business Today
Proactive business owners always have an eye on the future. And part of that preparedness means knowing what the company is currently worth and doing...
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Use an Old Rule to Add Value at Work
Here's a trivia question: Name the management consultant credited with launching the Pareto Principle who lived to be more than 100 years of age?...
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What Employers Need to Know About Payroll Tax Responsibilities
As your payroll staff or provider can likely tell you, your organization is responsible for meeting several types of payroll tax obligations...
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Federal Tax News For Individuals
What to do if you missed the tax day deadline Did you miss the 2022 tax filing deadline? For most taxpayers, that was April 18, 2023. Taxpayers who...
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Squeeze More Out of a Company SEP [Simplified Employee Pension Plan]
If you want a retirement plan for your small company or self-employed business -- but you don't want to be buried in paperwork -- consider a...