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How Understanding Sales Tax Can Help Your Business

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Think your business is too small to worry about sales taxes? South Dakota , small business sales tax has been an issue you cannot afford to ignore. With audits ramping up and penalties exceeding $100,000, understanding sales and use tax is essential. The cost of sales tax non-compliance. Think again.

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The 4 Keys to Building a 100% Remote Bookkeeping Practice

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Major soft skills involve time management, effective communication, writing, reliability and responsiveness towards clients, organization, project management, and your ability to own and address your problems and mistakes. World-class reporting also fosters better communication among the management team, board, investors, and lenders.

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Strategic Finance Focus at Year-End

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Tax Planning is Beneficial and Essential A wise person once said that failing to plan is planning to fail. This is certainly true in the area of taxation, where there are often opportunities to legally minimize or defer the timing of tax payments and to claim income tax credits.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 31-Jan 1) 2023

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Why it is important for advisory firms to conduct an audit of their tech stack and the steps they can take to conduct the exercise. For instance, a 2022 Vanguard study found that consumers have different preferences for the planning services they want to be completed by a human and those to be done by a digital solution.

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Dropping A B/D License Without Dropping Current B/D Platform

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I think the biggest thing that started it was when we would have our branch audits, we never had any feedback about something on the RIA side. And that is a very simple, it’s easy to communicate, and it’s very clear. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. Why Stacey Decided To Drop Her Broker-Dealer License [05:41].

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” It’s constant communication through the year. And then we got the transition done, and then were able to get right back into financial planning mode where we’re doing the systematic reviews and getting everyone on board and used to the new systems. All of the tax planning, and all of the behind-the-scenes work.

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Transcript: Tom Rampulla

Barry Ritholtz

So there’s the, “Hey, I’ll work with you and we’ll develop goals and a plan how to get there.” They’ll do tax planning, right? We’ll do estate planning and other complex financial planning. You communicate very clearly and candidly about the risks.