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With June 15 just around the corner, many of you are starting to think about—and perhaps dread—filing your quarterly estimated tax payments. While QETs can be a nightmare for overworked and unorganized small business owners and self-employed individuals, there are many online tools available to make the process easier, faster and headache-free.

Here’s how they [...]

June 15th Deadline:  Quarterly Estimated Taxes
Now that we’re under a month away from June 15th, you might be one of the millions of self employed or small business owners that need to file a quarterly estimated tax payment. While not everyone’s cup of tea, the process can certainly be made more manageable by leveraging a few [...]

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Small Business Week was May 17 to 23, and the Internal Revenue Service urges small businesses to act now and take advantage of tax-saving opportunities included in the recovery law.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted in February, created, extended or expanded a variety of business tax deductions and credits. Because some of these [...]

The Internal Revenue Service announced today that small businesses with deductions exceeding their income in 2008 can use a new net operating loss tax provision to get a refund of taxes paid in prior years.
To accommodate the change in tax law, the IRS today updated the instructions for two key forms – Forms 1045 and [...]

With the credit markets as frozen as they are, it is difficult for many small businesses to get the loans they need to grow. Today, President Barack Obama announced new plans for immediate action to bring America’s credit markets back to life for small business owners.

Small business are a major component of the American economy. [...]

FreshBooks and Shoeboxed today announced a partnership to help small and home-based businesses transform piles of paper receipts into professional-looking invoices for their clients. Often, small businesses make purchases for their clients and expect to be reimbursed. Starting today, they can collect the receipts from those purchases, mail them to Shoeboxed to be scanned and [...]

Shoeboxed, the leader in online receipt management that many of our readers know and love, has announced an exciting new partnership to help you use your Shoeboxed receipts for online bookkeeping.
Outright.com, the easiest way for self-employed people to manage their bookkeeping, now integrates directly with Shoeboxed, allowing receipts from Shoeboxed to flow seamlessly into Outright.com’s [...]

Shoeboxed, the leading online service for organizing receipts, released a new feature today allowing users to download their receipt information into a format that they can import into Quickbooks, a popular accounting software program for small businesses.
Since many small businesses use Shoeboxed to organize their receipts, this move makes a lot of sense.
Follow these easy [...]

There are many factors to consider when determining where to locate (or relocate) your company. On top of personal preferences and where you may be rooted by family and friends, there are many factors that directly impact your business in any area. The labor force, financial incentives from the government, support from local officials, the [...]

Quickbooks Pro, the preeminent bookkeeping software for small businesses is free today at Staples store across the U.S. after a mail-in rebate. Normally $199, you can buy it at the store for $40 off and then send in a rebate for the rest of the $159. This deal is only available today, December 22, 2008.
The [...]

President-Elect Barack Obama plans to invest $250 million in government funds into business incubators every year as president, totaling $1 billion over four years. The move, which he says will encourage entrepreneurship by faciliating networking, business mentorships, and the free flow of innovative ideas, is part of an overarching strategy to help stop the bleeding [...]

During the recently concluded presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to eliminate capital gains taxes to help stimulate the economy. This is big news for start-ups, so let’s look into what this will mean in the coming months for small, fast-growing companies.

The Shoeboxed Blog has long been a resource for small businesses and individuals looking to find more information about receipt organization, tax preparation, business card organization, Shoeboxed, and much more. In fact, the Shoeboxed Blog has been around since before Shoeboxed even existed, with numerous posts leading up to Shoeboxed’s public beta launch in July [...]

A few months ago, Peter Shankman, a semi-famous social media expert became a full blow Internet celebrity with the launch of Help A Reporter Out, also known as HARO. This is a free service designed to connect you to journalists and bloggers that might be able to help you in your PR efforts.