Aug. 18, 2025

Starting a Successful Business

Starting a Successful Business
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Season 2

TaxTalk4u : Starting a Successful Business. business startup checklist. : A comprehensive checklist for starting a business includes key steps like conducting market research, creating a business plan, securing funding, choosing a business structure, and registering the business, licenses and permits, securing an EIN, opening a business bank account, and establishing business credit, etting up bookkeeping, deciding on compensation, S-Corp, Website, Tax Compliance, Pricing, Payroll Services.

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Barry gen Fowler EA brings you tax talk for you

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right here on W four CY Radio and talk for TV.

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As an enrolled agent and a national leader.

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In tax resolution as well as Trucker bookkeeping and tax planning.

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With over thirty years of experience.

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Barry will break down taxes, bookkeeping, tax planning, and tax

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relief for.

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Individuals and businesses just like you. So let's have some

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tax talk for you with your host, Barry G. Fowler.

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Hey, good, welcome, and it was really a wonderful weekend.

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Well hot, we got out to do a bunch of

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good things around the ranch and actually working on some

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guys out there digging ponds. So and the existing pond

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that we had, which was just a little pond that

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somebody else had dug and wasn't very deep, actually had

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fish in it, which we were early surprised. So that's

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good news, and they'll keep working on it today. As

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matter of fact, talking about being prepared and getting out early,

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these guys were out there at six o'clock this morning

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already working on the pond, so you know they got

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an early start. We had to get an early start

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to get prepared for the show. In today's show, you know,

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we're talking about starting a successful business. You know, whether

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you're trucking, consulting, retail. Let's say you're even starting gas

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station or donuts, chat ice cream, whatever it may be

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that suit your fancy that you're going to get out

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and do even ranching, raising cattle or raising chickens, whatever

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it may be. In business, you've got to start your

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business correctly because you have a goal of what be successful.

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Nobody plans to fail. People just fail to plan. You know,

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that's the hard part in everything that happens in business.

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So when you're sitting down and you're saying, hey, I'm

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going to be in business and I am going to

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run a what successful business or you going to run

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a business that you plan to fail at.

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You know, it.

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Becomes a really hard thing because, like I said, nobody

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comes into starting business with the goal of failure. So

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what you first need to do is what I would

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tell you is start a checklist the things that you

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need to prepare and do before you ever get to

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the point of opening the doors in your business. I mean,

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you may need to start with market research, understanding what

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your target audience is, what your competition is, what the

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demand is for what you are going to offer. You

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know that sounds difficult, it really does, but that is

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the basis of where you're going to start, whether you're

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running and maybe an accounting firm or a tax firm

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or a trucking company. What's your competition doing? What are

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you going to be able to charge? What is the

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market for what you're providing? So, if you're going into

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trucking business, are you going to all hasmath? Are you

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going to be just pulling refer trail? What are you

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going to be doing in this business? If you're offering

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let's say you're going to put an ice cream shop,

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a little shop down the road here from US is

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about to open. Matter of fact, they've had a little

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shop somewhere else and so they have determined that they're

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opening a second shop. The market demand is high enough

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to put that shop into place and get it going.

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So they've done their research. They understand what their target

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audience is, what their competition is, and then what their

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demand is. Now part of the next step is let's

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put together a business plan. We covered business plans in

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one of our previous podcasts and shows. Should go back

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and look at that. We went into it in depth

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doing business plans. But your business plan is a comprehensive

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plan outlining your goals, your strategies, your financial projections, and

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there's places that can help you with this. SBA, a

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small business association, has a group called I Believe It's Score,

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and you know, they have their steps to developing a

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business plan and they actually have business plan models out

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there for you. So go take a look at some

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of that stuff to see how you can put together

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the right business plan. Again, planning for success, and that's

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what we always want to be when we go into business.

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We want to be a success. So you need to

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plan for that and how you're going to get there

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how you're going to define success. It's not just being

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able to reach into your pocket and pull a dollar

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out or ten dollars or one hundred dollars, whatever it

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may be. You have to have a defined goal and

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then reach those goals. Hey, you've got a question here,

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Frank SBA Small Business Association. You know you can go

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in log into the Small Business Association. They got ten

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steps to start your business. They've got sample business plans

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in there. There's a lot of others things, and then

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there's a group called score And I forgot what those

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at acronym is for, but you can see that over

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at the SBA. The next thing you're going to want

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to do is choose your business structure. Now, when I

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talk about business structures, we always look at business structures

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from a tax standpoint because we do tax advising. Now

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you may look at it from a legal standpoint. And

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when you're talking about a legal standpoint, you want to

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reach out and talk to an attorney. I'm not an attorney,

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never wanted to be an attorney, and don't charge legal fees.

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So you want to reach out to attorney in local area.

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It's good to have somebody that you might call a

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friend as an attorney, somebody that will be on your

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side that can help you. But it's also good to

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have an attorney that when you do need one, it's

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somebody you know. It's just like having a tax preprayer,

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a tax advisor, bookkeeping business advisor on your side, somebody

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when you reach out and you need help, they know

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about you and your business. It's not somebody you're reaching

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out to at the last minute to get some advice

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and they're going to not have any clue what you're

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doing in your business or how you're structured or anything else.

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And it's a beautiful part about having business people on

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your side that you work with and you guys can

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also refer back and forth because it's great you know

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people that I know in business, we refer people to

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when they're looking for that service or that product, and

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the same goes when they get to meeting other people

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and they want somebody that's professional in tax business, bookkeeping

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business and such, they refer back to us. Or if

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somebody has a tax problem, maybe they forgot to pay

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their payroll taxes in their business and they need help,

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they reach out to us at Taxation Solutions, Tax relief.

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As a matter of fact, if you got a tax problem,

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you know you can call us and Taxation Solutions tax Relief.

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Go to Taxation Solutions dot net, or you can call

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us at eight eight eight nine three zero one zero

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one six again eight eight eight nine three zero one

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zero one six and get the help you need with

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your tax problem. Whether it's an individual business, we're here

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to help. So now that you've got you know, hey,

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you've talked about your business plan, you've talked about what

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kind of structure you're looking. Before you can get that structure,

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you need to choose a business name. You know, you

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got to choose a name that's available, memorable, inappropriate for

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your business. Sometimes you choose names that you know it's

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it's really hard to get the website for, or the

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names really long, like Taxation Solutions dot net. You know,

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two big words out there. A lot of mistakes can

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happen putting in those names. Maybe you want a shorter name.

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Those things you can find our more memorable name. So

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when we work with bookkeeping and taxes for truckers, we

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do that under the name of Trucker tax Tools dot com.

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Something easy to remember. Trucker Tax Tools dot com. So

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if you're in a trucking business and you're looking for

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bookkeeping or tax help, that's an easy website to go

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to and be able to look us up and connect

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with us so that we can do bookkeeping and taxes.

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So business name can really make a difference. Well, he

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asked a question, name comes before structure or is it

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the structure. Well, you could start working on the business

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name when you're talking about determining the structure. Now, you

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cannot go and get the structure for your business, like

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you can't go to the Secretary of State and put

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your business in and have the structure until you come

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up with a business name. So you're kind of working

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on these things simultaneously. So when you're going through you

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know just this first step the planning and preparation, you know,

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you're doing your market research. You're kind of researching names too.

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You're putting your business plan together, you're putting the name

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to it, you're determining structure, you're determining what you're looking

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at your income and you're planning for profit. And then

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you're choosing the actual structure, putting that into the business

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plan as well, and getting that final name out there.

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So you know, these are all things about planning phase

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of doing this business. And we're going to continue talking

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about starting up your business. And we're going to talk

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right after this break registration and more legal will do

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that right after this.

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We have only scratched the surface of play's show.

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Please stand by as Paraging Power will be right back

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with tax talk for you. If you owe the IRS

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or are going through an IRS audit, don't go at

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it alone.

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Relief at eight eight eight nine three zero one zero

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back taxes, garnishments, leans and levees. Whether you're an individual

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or business, you need a solution and a strong, aggressive

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tax resolution. Don't let the IRS walk all over you.

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Stop the IRS now call eight eight eight nine three

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net now for a free no obligation consultation.

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Let's get back to tax talk for.

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You with more tax tock once again. Here's your host,

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Barry G.

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Fowler back.

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I've got phone's going off, everything else forgot to put

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things on to not to start for the show. Hey,

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things happen when you're sitting here and getting ready for

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a show, and you kind of forget that, Hey, there

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are certain things that you've got to go through and do.

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It's kind of like starting a new business. You're doing planning,

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you're doing preparation. Part of that planning and preparation might

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be thinking about securing initial funding. Where is the money

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going to come from? Is it all your money? You're

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going to bring in outside sources. So when you're doing

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your business plan, you start planning for what the funding

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is going to be for your business, any business loans,

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what is it going to take to get this business

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started off the ground going. So you've gone through and

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done your planning, you've kind of figured out what your

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name of your business is going to be. As we

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tell people, always think about the possible other names of

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the business just in case your business name is already

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taken and if that's the case, then you might need

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to move in a different direction or a different name.

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But the next step is you start looking at your

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registration and legal so you can contact hopefully to your

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attorney to get you set up with the right structure

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and register your company with the Secretary of State. So

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your state is where you go to register your company.

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So we went to the Texas Secretary of State's office

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and registered Taxation Solutions, Inc. Tax Relief, and we put

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our DBAs underneath that name as well, so that the

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business structure was set up correctly from the beginning. Then

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you're going to go to the IRS. You can work

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with your tax profession'll do this, but you can go

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online and get your Employer Identification number that's the ei

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that online. When you're doing that, make sure you're reading

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the form and the boxes, because when you put the

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structure together, the IRS will send you a letter telling

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you exactly what you need to start filing for your

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business this year. So if you are in LLC and

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you're a single member, then you would end up filing

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as a schedule CEE ten forty. But you may have

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checked the box that you have employees, are going to

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have employees soon, and they would require you to start

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filing nine to forty once payroll tax returns or nine

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forty threes or nine to forty five. You got to

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read the form to see what they are going to

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acquire of you, or if you were multi member then

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they would make you file as a ten sixty five

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a partnership if you were inc. Taxation Solutions, Inc. When

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you first filed, you would be required to file an

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eleven twenty which is a corporate tax return, and then

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you would have to apply to become recognized as an

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ES corporate through the federal government the IRS, and then

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you would file eleven twenty s. So you've got to

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follow all the guidelines and the hoops. You're going through

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this all right, So we had a question here, Secretary

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of State needs the EI in before the articles are filed.

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get the name of your business. Then you're going to

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turn around and file with the federal government through the

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IRS for your employer identification. So that is the order

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that you have to go through, no matter what your

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state's says. You can't get an employer identification number until

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you absolutely have the company name. That is the way

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it works. And then you can go to the IRS

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and say, hey, I've got Lucky's Bar and Grill, Inc.

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can go and get The next step would be your

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licenses permits, so Lucky's Bar and Grail. You then have

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to go out and get license and permits, your liquor

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licenses and everything that you would be required. Or if

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you were running an ice cream place or other food establishment,

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you would have to do licenses. If you're running another,

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let's say retail business, you may have to get licenses

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in your state, such as sales tax and so forth.

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All those things would you would have to go through

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in fall in place so that you could then go

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in and be closer and ready to start up the

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business and open the doors. Now, once you've got that

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employer identification number, you're going to have a lot of

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steps you've got to continue to fillow you know, getting

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your license and permits. Of course, you're going to have

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to open up your business bank account. Whether you are

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at LLC, DBA, Inc. General Partnership, you need a separate

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business bank account, something that you're going to run only

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business transactions through. You do not want to run personal

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transactions to through your business account. You want to keep

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everything separate. It's easier for accounting, it's easier for taxes,

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it's easier if you were to go through an audit

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that you did not commingle things, and then as lawyers

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tell me, it keeps that corporate veil in place to

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protect you from anything that happens within the business. Hey,

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that that's up to lawyers and you to discuss. We

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just recommend you follow through. Hey, good question here. What

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were you saying about the S thing and what is

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that S corp sub Chapter S. What is is it's

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a different style of taxing your business. So when you

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open up Taxation Solutions, Inc. If you were taxed on

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eleven twenty, the business would pay a tax and then

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dividends would come out to you. You're running it like

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a major corporation out there. Es Corp allows all the

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net income to pass through to you and be taxed

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on your tax return without double taxation. So INC has

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double taxation. Es Corp only has passed through whatever the

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net income is it's passed to you. Is what your

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taxes are going to be. It's more complicated than that

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because you know in distributions and other things that can

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happen in the business. But that's something to talk to

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your tax advisor about as you're getting set up. Also

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question came in, do all businesses need licenses and permits.

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You know, a lot of times it depends on where

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you live, depends on your state, locality, you know, location,

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and the types of business that you may be in.

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Certain businesses require more permits and more licenses than others.

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Some businesses don't require a permit or a license at

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all that you can open it up and go into business.

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There are some things you look at and go just

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doesn't make sense to have a license. You know, I

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would say kind of like fishing. It doesn't make sense

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to have a license to go fishing. You should be

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able to go fish and feed your family with fish,

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if that'd so be it. But hey, that's another day

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soapbox about licensing and how these governments, whether it's state, local,

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or federal, have too much red tape sometimes getting people

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into business much less being able to just live your life. Hey,

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good news. When you live out on a ranch, there

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are certain things that you don't need licenses for or

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permits for, such as taking upond Now, if I was

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a little bit closer into town or in the zone

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restricted area, yes, I'd have to go get another permit

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or a license to do that. So you know, there's

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each business that has its own thing so now you're

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setting up, you set up your business and you're getting

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ready for financial operational you might want to get own

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business credit card. American Express discover places like that don't

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necessarily need timel and business. They're going to grant you

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that credit card. Some of the banks that you go

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to work with would grant you that line of credit

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or that business credit card. Although the line of credit

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on that business card may be limited, but it is

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something that could be available to You need to discuss

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that with your bank. You're definitely going to want to

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make sure you've got bookkeeping. You set up a system

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for tracking all your expenses. You know, we go through

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and cover bookkeeping in depth for trucking companies and small businesses.

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To go back and listen to some of those podcasts

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out there that we have about bookkeeping and taxes, and

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you know, you start establishing these things and you need

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to make sure that you're following through. Now there's a

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lot of things that happen in business structure, a lot

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of things that operational set up. We're going to keep

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talking about starting this new business and making sure that

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you've gotten off on right foot. Right after this, we.

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Have only scratched the surface of today show.

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to tax talk for you with more tax tock once again.

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Here's your host, RYG. Fallum.

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Hey, welcome back man. I love all the questions we're

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getting today. It's makes the show easier if this is

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supposed to be interactive. So if you've got the questions,

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we try to give you the answers the best we

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can here in the limited time we get to talk

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about uh you know, startup to do business and trying

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to be successful at your business. You know, and we

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look at it that you know, statistics are out there

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roughly fifty percent of businesses fail in the first five

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years as a result of not planning. And that's what

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today is about planning, planning to be successful in your business.

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So we got a question here does the credit get

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issued on a personal Social Security number or a company? Now,

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first off, you've got to remember your startup. So depending

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on the bank that you are dealing with, you may

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be able to get a loan in the business name

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or credit card in the business name with you as

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a co signer. So when you're setting up the structure

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and you're working with your bank, you want to talk

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to them to determine, you know, if they're able to

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do it. Now, sometimes the banks will refuse to do

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a credit card for a new startup or line of

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credit out there. You're going to have to have a

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good business plan. Maybe you need to go and get

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a small business loan through the SBA, which your bank

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may or may not offer, and then you know, you

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can get that through the business, but sometimes you can't.

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Sometimes you're getting set up and it goes through and

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you're not going to be able to get that loan

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or a line of credit or the credit card and

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you're going to have to use a personal card. I

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have not had any buddy from attorney, friends or say hey,

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that is a no go. We're doing bookkeeping, we're going

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to be mostly looking at as a loan from owner,

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not tying that personal credit card out there. We also

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ask you to use that card just for business so

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that there's not a commingling there of like interest expense

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and when we're trying to write off interest saying a

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portion of it went to these expenses that were charged

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on there for the business and a portional personal So

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you know, you kind of got to look at it.

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How are you going to be able to operate your

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business and then differentiate business and personal. Keep that one

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card to the side that's just then used only for

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the business, and it makes it easier somebody who's asking

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on business set up, is it better to go with

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an LLC or an escort? Well, an LLC can used

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and structured to become an escorp. So remember escorp is

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an election that you make through the irs. Now that

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es corp election, whether you are an INK or a

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LLLC is basically the same. And then when you make

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that es CORP election, then business owners that are working

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in the business have to be on payroll as well,

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a lot of complications. We have a great whole show

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about escorps and how escorpse operate. So go back and

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look at the podcast. Go to tax Talk for you

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dot com and you can see all of our podcasts there,

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or you can go on iHeart and look up tax

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Talk for you dot com and see the podcast. You

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can see the escort podcast out there. I'll give you

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all the information about ESCORP and rules and regulations and

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being an escorp. We can't talk about all those rules

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today because of how much time we have to actually

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get through the show. They only give me an hour.

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I could be on here for hours and hours and

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talking about business startups and answering all the questions that

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we've got here today. You know, when we talk about

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you know, structure, and we're talking now about you're going

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to be up and operating. Just talk about employees and payroll.

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I will recommend it is worth every dime you spend

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to have a payroll service. I can't tell you how

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much payroll services benefit you as a business owner when

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you have some a service out there, payroll relief that's

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offered by you know, truck or tax tools and some

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of the other ones that are out there. They're filing

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your nine forty ones for you. They're filing your nine

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forties for you. They're going to file your W two's

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for you. That you don't miss deadlines. They make the

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tax payments with each of your payrolls or monthly, depending

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on how it's going and what the rules are by

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the IRS. When you set up payroll from the get

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go and then choose how everybody's going to get paid,

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and then that way you have the structure in place,

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how much everybody's getting paid, getting the taxes being paid,

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and you're not missing deadlines. So one of the worst

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things a business does, especially startups or maybe when business

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gets a little bit slow, it's the easiest thing to

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do is avoid pay and payroll taxes because they don't

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see it right away that you didn't pay, and they

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don't hit you for three six months down the road,

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and then all of a sudden, the fines and penalties

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are out of this world and you're wondering what had

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happened to you. Using a payroll service and making sure

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those taxes are being paid is extremely extremely important. A

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matter of fact, as I tell people, if you refuse

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to do payroll with us, do it so where with

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somebody else, and don't do it yourself because of the

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fees to get payroll done are much cheaper than the

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fees to get you out of the problem with payroll

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by far. So the question is would payroll be through

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your bookkeeping service? It can be so here at Trucker

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Tax Tools, we offer bookkeeping tax service and then we

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will offer payroll services to our clients that need it,

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and we are cheaper than a lot of the other

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payroll services that are out there. But you can do

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it through Gusto or Patriot Software. Those will offer it.

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Matter of fact, our bookkeeping software we now use, which

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is Zero, is now integrating with Gusto, so we'll be

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able to work with Gusto to provide payroll services to

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our clients right through our bookkeeping program that we're doing already.

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So maybe you choosing to do bookkeeping yourself, maybe you

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choose Zero and starting I think probably next year, they'll

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have Gusto offered as part of right there with zero

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as an add on as well, so you can choose

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how you wanna set up your bookkeeping services and then

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payroll services as well. But if you're a trucking company,

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make sure you reach out to truck or tax tools

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dot com. Give us a call here at eight seven

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to get you set up with your bookkeeping and then

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talk about whether you should be an es corp or

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or not. What are the benefits, especially like if you're

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an LLC, we go through and look at how it

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would benefit you to be an es corp or multi

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member LLC versus being a single member reporting on schedules.

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See another question came in, is it different if you

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don't have employees or if you have ten ninety nine people? Well,

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contractors are ten ninety nine.

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Now.

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The IRS has a lot of rules and regulations and

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what dictates is an employee. I always break it down

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to control. Who controls the person doing work, controls their time,

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the way they do it, how they do it, the

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tools they use to do their work. Are they coming

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into your office? Are they what do they have to

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follow as a person out there. If you have control

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over that person. They are an employee. Put them on payroll.

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If you've contracted out, let's say bookkeeping services, they're contractors.

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You're not dictating how, who, what, where, when or how

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they're doing it. Therefore, they are contractors. Somebody comes in

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and just provides a service or time here and fixes

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the and goes does a little bit of consulting for you,

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and goes does it for other people as well. They're

506
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going to be contractors, not employees. But if they're working

507
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just for you and you're controlling their hours and their time,

508
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they're an employee. Fam as an employee. Lots of things.

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When you're setting up business and you're planning for success, plan,

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plan for your future, plan to be successful. Do the

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planning that you need. When we come back, we're going

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to talk about some additional considerations as you're going into

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business and operating your future successful business.

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Right after this, we have only scratched the surface of

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today's show. Please stand by as Barry G. Fowler will

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be right back with tax talk for you as an

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owner operator. You already spend too much time away from

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your family. Stop spending time during paperwork. Go to truck

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or tax tools dot com A solution built specific please

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run smoothly. Let's get back to tax Talk for You

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with more tax Talk once again.

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Here's your host, BARRYG. Foller.

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Hey, by the way, we've got great news. We just

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got ritten the huge for a whole other season here

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at W four c Y Radio. So you get to

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have me boring you with taxes and bookkeeping talk and uh,

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starting your businesses, and hey, the topics you want to

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hear is what we want to get out to you.

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So if you've got ideas, you can go over to

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tax Talk for You dot com messages and hey, we'll

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probably try to put a show around your questions and

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getting your answers out there for businesses all across the board. Again,

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you can go to tax Talk for You dot com

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and follow us. You can follow us on Facebook and

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follow us Instagram, different social media sites. Just go in

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an episode and then message us. Let us get something

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that you want to hear on the air. And like

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I said, it's great news. We've just been renewed for

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a whole nother year on W four CY radio, and

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we'll continue to pushing these podcasts out to use. You

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can help yourself in your business, your personal life, and

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help with your taxes. Now we're talking about additional factors.

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So we've talked about the payroll, we've talked about you're

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getting ready to open your doors. Make sure you're thinking

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about tax compliance. Hey, there's only a couple of things

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for sure in life, and that is death and taxes.

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And we get to address taxes here. Tax compliance. You

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need to understand what your future tax obligations will be

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from sales tax, income tax, payroll taxes, use tax, heavy

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highway tax, fuel tax, you name it. If there's a

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way to tax it, the governments try to find a

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way to tax it. Beverage tax, the fixed beverage, you

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name it. It's there as taxes, both federal, state, and local.

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So you know you've gone into business. You got to

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remember you're not just dealing with the federal government and

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the state government. You got to deal with your local

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governments and regulations as well. Now you're building the business, now,

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you know you need to define your company culture, identify

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key roles, right job descriptions, hire employees where necessary, get

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your supply chain in order identifying established relationships with your

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suppliers to meet your requirements for quality, price delivery products.

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You're going to be offered your sales channels, you know,

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was going to be in person online, whether you're going

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to have a brick and mortar business or a digital

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online business. You know, the great question just came in.

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Is there a difference between a brick and mortar business

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and a digital line business? The building really a funny story.

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I had a magician, I believe it or not, that

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contacted us years ago, called then asked our receptionist, are

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you in a brick and mortar building? She goes a

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whole lot a minute, let me go outside and look.

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And she came back in and she goes, no, it's

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actually looks like wood or heartody plank on the outside

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of the building, but there's no brick. Magician just shook

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his head and laughed, and she is, well, then you're

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in a brick and mortar building. So they started using this.

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They've been a client of IRUs for twenty five years now.

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It's fantastic, but nothing like having a magician and then

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I get to do the magic tricks and helping him

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save money on his taxes and watching his taxes get

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reduced down as far as possible. So we all have

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a little bit of magic in us. But as far

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as the business structure know, there's not going to be

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your digital online business isn't going to have a local presence.

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They're just going to have a name presence. Which brings

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us to making sure that whether you're a brick and

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mortar business or you are online business, it comes down

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to a lot of times website, having a good website,

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whether it's just for e commerce, and even if you've

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got brick and mortar, you do an e commerce as well,

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so you're going to want to make sure you have

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a very functional, global friendly website, have a good e

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commerce platform that can handle all your online sales and

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payment processing. Now, payment processing, choose your payment processing under correctly,

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because you've got to remember the payment processing vendor is

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going to be taking three percent of your money, depending

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on how you're set up, could be as high as

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four percent with American Express, and you know, maybe you

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don't want to be that way. Maybe you want to

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get more through your debit card transactions. Maybe you want

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to pass that three percent on to people buying decisions

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you've got to make and look at with your marketing

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and your planning so that you're set up, you know,

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correctly for these people and that your cost is going

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to be it. Sometimes I don't like going into stores

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where they're going to charge me three percent more for

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using my credit card, where another store doesn't charge me

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that same fee, and sometimes their prices are are lower,

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and so I'm going to head to that store that

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givens same product and not charging me that three percent

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for using my credit card. That's where I'm going to

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head to sometimes, even if it's not as convenient as

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stopping it at the other store. So you kind of

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got to watch that and look at how you're going

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to plan and price in your business. You're also going

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to want to look at your business software CRMs and

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everything else, your customer relationship management system, project management, inventory management,

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and other needs you may have for software out there.

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software for the right type of business and it manages

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everything to manage and not having complications by having the

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wrong software. Sometimes the right software makes your life heck

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of a lot easier than running the wrong software within

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your business. To me, bard needs. Now you also got

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to start looking at ongoing management. You know you're getting

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ready to launch your business. You're announced, you're opening. Get

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out social media. Blast social media that you are open.

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there in the building. Launch your products online they're in

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the store. Do some kind of huge promotion to make

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yourself this success. I mean, it's kind of like I said,

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thinking about going into business, we're talking about business startups here.

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that's what I'm going to be there talking about with

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we've been renewed for another whole season here. It's going

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your business, and how you can benefit from that bill.

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The only way we can continue to do. This is

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Are you an individual or business that wants to understand

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