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Starting a Microschool or Learning Pod: The Bookkeeping and Business Structure Guide
Roughly 1 in 20 K-12 students now attends a microschool, and 38% received state school-choice funds in 2025 — here's how to choose an LLC vs. 501(c)(3), price tuition against ESA timing mismatches, and track per-student revenue from day one.
Sneaker and Trading Card Reselling Taxes: The 2026 Bookkeeping Guide
The 2026 IRS 1099-K threshold for platforms like eBay, StockX, and Whatnot is back to $20,000 and 200 transactions, but sneaker and trading card resellers still owe tax on profit below that line — here's how to nail cost basis, inventory tracking, and the hobby-vs-business test.
The Low-Profit LLC (L3C): What Mission-Driven Founders Should Know
L3Cs are legally recognized in only about ten states and roughly 1,700 exist nationwide, because the IRS never confirmed that L3C status automatically satisfies the program-related-investment test the structure was built around.
The FinCEN Residential Real Estate Rule Is Vacated: A Guide for LLC and Trust Buyers
A Texas federal court vacated FinCEN's Residential Real Estate Rule on March 19, 2026, eighteen days after it took effect, ending the mandatory reporting requirement for all-cash LLC and trust property purchases while FinCEN appeals to the Fifth Circuit.
Florida's New Protected Series LLC Law: One Master LLC or Five Separate Ones?
Florida's Uniform Protected Series Provisions (SB 316) took effect July 1, 2026, letting one LLC split into multiple liability-shielded "protected series" — a cost and bookkeeping comparison against forming a separate standalone LLC per property.
Business Divorce: How Partner Buyout Valuation and Deadlock Actually Work
Roughly 54% of business partnerships dissolve within five years and about 70% of small business owners never signed a buy-sell agreement, leaving price, timeline, and process to be fought over from a blank page once partners can no longer agree.
Consolidated vs. Combined Financial Statements: What Owners of Multiple LLCs Actually Need
Consolidated statements group a parent with the subsidiaries it controls under ASC 810; combined statements group entities that share a common owner with no parent-subsidiary link — the structure most multi-LLC owners actually have. Both require eliminating intercompany transactions, and neither changes how each LLC files taxes.
Why Your K-1 Is Always Late (and What to Do About It This Year)
Late Schedule K-1s are the norm, not the exception — a Form 7004 extension pushes partnership and S-corp returns, and every K-1 tied to them, to September 15, a full five months past the April 15 personal deadline. The fix is a simple playbook, file Form 4868, pay at least 90% of a good-faith estimate, and amend with Form 1040-X once the real numbers arrive.
OBBBA SALT Cap and PTET: A Four-Year Window for Pass-Through Owners
OBBBA raises the federal SALT cap to $40,400 for 2026 with a 30-cent-per-dollar phase-out above $505,000 MAGI, then reverts to $10,000 in 2030. PTET elections in 36 states remain uncapped and still beat the cap for most high-income pass-through owners. State deadlines, bunching priorities, and the 2030 cliff explained.
Section 199A QBI Deduction in 2026: A Pass-Through Owner's Playbook After the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act made Section 199A permanent, added a $400 minimum deduction for active small-business owners starting in 2026, and widened the joint phase-in range to $150,000. A field guide to the three QBI tiers, wage tuning, UBIA, aggregation, and SSTB positioning for pass-through owners.
Professional Speaker and Keynote Business Bookkeeping: A Practical Guide for Independent Thought Leaders
A bookkeeping guide for independent speakers and keynote artists, covering entity selection, revenue recognition across engagement fees and royalties, multi-state nexus, Section 274 travel substantiation, Section 179 studio equipment, and the KPIs that separate sustainable practices from feast-or-famine cycles.
Section 1402(a)(13) After Soroban: The Limited Partner SE Tax Exemption in 2026
Since the Tax Court's 2023 Soroban decision, a state-law limited partner label no longer shields distributive share from 15.3% self-employment tax. This guide walks through the functional test under Section 1402(a)(13), the Renkemeyer line of cases, the 2024 proposed regulations, and the planning moves that still hold up for fund managers, LLC members, and operating partners in 2026.