#small-business
Financial management strategies and tools for small business owners
HUBZone certification unlocks set-aside contracts, sole-source awards up to $5.5M, and a 10% price preference — if 35% of your staff live in a zone. Here are the four rules and the records examiners ask for.
Iceland requires every self-employed person to impute a minimum salary — 795,000 kr a month for a solo media freelancer, 1,199,000 kr for a solo specialist in 2026, up about 7.7% — plus 6.35% social security tax and 15.5% pension contributions on top.
Kuwait's Decree-Law No. 10 of 2026 requires every social-media seller to register with MOCI, issue Arabic e-invoices, honor a 14-day return window, and keep influencer records five years — penalties reach KD 10,000 or a year in prison.
Missouri's SALT Parity Act lets partnerships and S corps pay tax at the 4.7% top individual rate on Form MO-PTE, moving the deduction past the federal SALT cap. Here are the 2026 rules, deadlines, and filing traps.
Morocco's auto-entrepreneur caps are 200,000 DH for services and 500,000 DH for commerce; the 500,000/2,000,000 figures online belong to the CPU regime. Counting rules, the 80,000 DH per-client withholding, and what two over-cap years trigger.
Three ways to move an LLC across state lines — domestication keeps your EIN, contracts, and tax elections when both states allow it; foreign qualification suits businesses staying active in both states; dissolve-and-reform means a new EIN and a new S election — plus a 7-item tax and paperwork checklist for the transition year.
A 4.08% muni yield equals a 6.00% taxable yield in the 32% bracket. How to run the tax-equivalent yield math on business reserve cash, and where munis beat FDIC-insured savings.
Extended your 2025 return? You can still open and fund a SEP IRA by October 15, 2026 (September 15 for S corps and partnerships) and deduct up to $70,000 — but Solo 401(k) elective deferrals for 2025 are gone for good.
What to do when an OSHA compliance officer arrives — scope the opening conference, mirror the walkaround record, and file a protective Notice of Contest within 15 working days or penalties up to $165,514 per violation become final.
Most PEO brokers are paid by the PEO you pick, not by you — a commission that can vary by provider. Here are the compensation, network, and CPEO questions to ask before signing, and when going direct is faster.
Portland raised its Business License Tax gross-receipts exemption from $50,000 to $75,000 for 2026 and $100,000 for 2027, the first update since 2007. Who qualifies, why exempt businesses must still register and file, and how to track revenue against the cliff.
A married couple co-owning an unincorporated business is taxed as a partnership by default, but the qualified joint venture election lets each spouse file a separate Schedule C and Schedule SE instead — no Form 1065, and both spouses earn Social Security credits. Both spouses must materially participate, and businesses held in an LLC or corporation cannot use it.
