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Mike Thrift

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The Midyear Withholding Checkup That Can Prevent a Tax-Time Surprise
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The Midyear Withholding Checkup That Can Prevent a Tax-Time Surprise

A midyear withholding checkup turns "Will I owe?" into numbers you can act on—check your 2026 estimated-tax safe harbors (90% of this year's tax, or 100%/110% of last year's), project your withholding, and close any gap with a new Form W-4 or estimated payments.

tax
tax-planning
withholding
Minnesota Veterinary Technician Licensing: A Clinic Budget and Records Checklist
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Minnesota Veterinary Technician Licensing: A Clinic Budget and Records Checklist

Minnesota's licensed veterinary technician transition took effect July 1, 2026, with USD 282 in initial Board fees per applicant. A practical checklist for clinics to budget the costs, set reimbursement rules, control a staff roster, and clean up client-facing job titles.

small-business
compliance
licenses
Mobile Veterinary Practice Bookkeeping: A Per-Visit Profit and Van-Cost Guide
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Mobile Veterinary Practice Bookkeeping: A Per-Visit Profit and Van-Cost Guide

A bookkeeping framework for mobile veterinary practices — track per-visit revenue in layers, capitalize the van and conversion, split loan payments into principal and interest, and use contribution margin plus a rolling 13-week forecast to price each route.

bookkeeping
small-business
healthcare
Niger's 2026 Payment Taxes: A Recordkeeping Guide for Cash and Mobile-Money Businesses
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Niger's 2026 Payment Taxes: A Recordkeeping Guide for Cash and Mobile-Money Businesses

Niger's 2026 framework adds a 1% tax on qualifying cash payments above CFA 100,000 and a 0.5%/5% tax on deposits and inter-operator transfers. This guide shows small businesses how to map exposure, record the tax separately from the underlying transaction, and reconcile cash and mobile money daily.

small-business
tax-compliance
payments
Selling Notion Templates Through a Merchant of Record: A Bookkeeping Guide to Gross Sales, Fees, and Taxes
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Selling Notion Templates Through a Merchant of Record: A Bookkeeping Guide to Gross Sales, Fees, and Taxes

How to keep books for Notion-template sales when a merchant-of-record platform collects sales tax and nets fees from your payout—separating customer charges, platform fees, refunds, and taxes through a clearing account so a $1,530 deposit is fully explained, and treating Form 1099-K as a cross-check rather than your ledger.

bookkeeping
sales-tax
ecommerce
Purchasing Card Controls for Small Teams: Keep Spending Fast and Accountable
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Purchasing Card Controls for Small Teams: Keep Spending Fast and Accountable

A practical control framework for small-team purchasing cards—role-based limits, same-day receipt capture, weekly reconciliation, and independent review—so fast spending stays documented and auditable.

internal-controls
expense-management
small-business
QR-Code Payment Scams: Protect Your Accounts Payable and Checkout Controls
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QR-Code Payment Scams: Protect Your Accounts Payable and Checkout Controls

QR-code phishing (quishing) can redirect a vendor payment or capture a customer's card by swapping one image. The defenses are ordinary bookkeeping controls—verify the vendor master, separate approval from payment release, and reconcile QR channels daily.

accounts-payable
fraud-prevention
payments
Saudi Arabia E-Invoicing: A Practical FATOORA Compliance Guide for SMEs
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Saudi Arabia E-Invoicing: A Practical FATOORA Compliance Guide for SMEs

A practical guide for Saudi SMEs under ZATCA's FATOORA e-invoicing mandate—how B2B clearance and B2C reporting differ, why master data is a compliance control, and how to reconcile your accounting ledger with what your e-invoicing system submits.

invoicing
tax-compliance
compliance
How to Keep a Shared Commissary Kitchen Profitable: Revenue, Storage, and Overhead
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How to Keep a Shared Commissary Kitchen Profitable: Revenue, Storage, and Overhead

A bookkeeping playbook for shared commissary kitchen operators—separate every revenue stream, price storage and peak hours, allocate shared costs by a rule you can explain, reconcile bookings to bank deposits, and hold refundable deposits as liabilities until earned.

small-business
bookkeeping
financial-management
Tesla Q2 2026 Earnings: 480K Deliveries Could Not Save the Operating Margin
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Tesla Q2 2026 Earnings: 480K Deliveries Could Not Save the Operating Margin

Tesla's Q2 2026 revenue rose 25.5% to $28.24 billion on 480,450 deliveries and a record 13.5 GWh of energy storage, yet operating income fell 57% to $398 million as R&D rose 49%, SG&A rose 45%, and regulatory-credit revenue dropped 67% to $146 million. A $1.0 billion unrealized gain on Tesla's SpaceX stake then lifted net income to $1.13 billion, nearly triple the operating result. Full income statement, balance sheet and FY2021-Q2 2026 history in a public Beancount ledger.

financial-reporting
financial-analysis
financial-statements
Travel Agency Bookkeeping: How to Reconcile Ticket Sales, Refunds, and Airline Remittances
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Travel Agency Bookkeeping: How to Reconcile Ticket Sales, Refunds, and Airline Remittances

A ledger-based method for ARC-accredited travel agencies to separate ticket proceeds, airline settlement obligations, service-fee revenue, and refunds—so daily, per-period, and monthly reconciliation shows exactly how much cash the agency actually owns.

travel
reconciliation
bookkeeping
Uzbekistan's Simplified Tax Threshold: A Recordkeeping Guide for Small Traders
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Uzbekistan's Simplified Tax Threshold: A Recordkeeping Guide for Small Traders

Uzbekistan raised its simplified-regime threshold from 1 billion to 5 billion soums on June 1, 2026, and added a voluntary 6% simplified VAT for catering, retail, and services. Here is how small traders should track turnover in soums, keep tax collected separate from revenue, and model the VAT trade-off before electing it.

small-business
tax-compliance
international-tax
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