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The Self-Employed Health Insurance Deduction in 2026: Navigating the Return of the ACA Subsidy Cliff

The enhanced ACA premium tax credits expired January 1, 2026, restoring the 400% FPL subsidy cliff — about $60,240 for a single filer — and roughly doubling net premiums for the average subsidized enrollee. Here's how self-employed workers can use the 100% above-the-line health insurance deduction, Form 7206, HSA contributions ($4,400 individual / $8,750 family), and MAGI timing strategies to soften the hit.

mike

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FDIC Coverage for Business Accounts: Lessons from the Small Business Bank Failure in Lenexa, Kansas

On July 18, 2026, regulators closed Small Business Bank of Lenexa, Kansas — the fourth U.S. bank failure of 2026 — with $73M in assets and $69M in deposits assumed by Farmers State Bank of Oakley. Here's how the $250,000-per-depositor, per-ownership-category FDIC limit really applies to business accounts, and how to extend coverage with multiple banks or insured cash sweeps.

mike

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Selling Your Business to Your Employees: What the New SBA Worker Cooperative Lending Pilot Means for Retiring Owners

Six million U.S. businesses are expected to change hands by 2035, yet over 58% of owners have no succession plan. The National Worker Cooperative Development and Support Act, reintroduced in December 2025, would create an SBA pilot guaranteeing $60 million in loans over ten years for worker cooperative conversions — solving the 20%-owner personal guarantee problem that blocks most co-op financing. Here's how the pilot, Section 1042 capital gains deferral, and clean bookkeeping fit into an employee-ownership exit.

mike

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Billboard and Outdoor Advertising Bookkeeping: Yield, Volume, and Why Your Ground Lease Is COGS

A bookkeeping guide for small billboard and out-of-home (OOH) operators — why yield and volume must be tracked separately, why ground leases belong in COGS tagged by board, how static and digital faces differ on depreciation and revenue recognition, and the five KPIs worth reviewing, including 85%+ utilization targets and a ~2.5-year payback benchmark on new digital builds.

mike

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Business Savings Accounts in 2026: What Idle Cash Actually Costs You

With the Fed holding rates at 3.5%–3.75% through mid-2026, a business keeping $100,000 in a 0% checking account forgoes roughly $3,500–$4,000 a year. This guide compares top business savings APYs (Axos ~3.60%, Bluevine up to ~3.75%, Live Oak, Lili, Grasshopper), explains Insured Cash Sweep coverage beyond the $250,000 FDIC limit, and shows how to split operating, reserve, and surplus cash.

mike

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CLA and Digits Are Training an AI on Their Clients' Books: What Firm-Built AI Bookkeeping Means for Your Small Business

CLA, a top-10 U.S. accounting firm with nearly $2 billion in revenue and 9,000 people, is co-building a proprietary AI model with Digits trained on its own client base and rolling it out to thousands of clients over three years. Here is what firm-trained AI bookkeeping means for small businesses — what gets automated versus reviewed, where your data goes, how pricing shifts, and why keeping a portable plain-text copy of your books matters more as accounting goes AI-native.

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