Business owners who look at the Internal Revenue Code for a list of deductible business expenses may be surprised to find that there isn’t a list of specific deductions. For example, the tax law doesn’t explicitly state that a business can deduct office supplies and...

Government officials monitor the number of new businesses that are launched each year. In the aftermath of the pandemic, government officials saw a large increase of businesses formed. The U.S. Census Bureau measures this by monitoring the number of businesses applying for an Employer Identification...

The notion of bartering may conjure an image of a crowded, bustling medieval bazaar. But these types of transactions continue to occur in today’s high-tech modern world. This brief article discusses whether and when bartering is taxable....

The IRS has treated owners of LLCs and LLPs as limited partners for purposes of the passive activity loss rules. This could be a tax negative. As this article explains, however, LLC and LLP owners can now be treated as general partners, which means they...