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December 2022

Deducting Startup and Organizational Costs

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One of the most common questions I get from people opening a business for the first time is, 'How do I deduct all of the many expenses incurred before the business actually opens its doors?' Most of these can be handled as either start-up expenses or organizational expenses. You can think of organization expenses as creating the paperwork part of a business and start-up expenses as setting up the physical structure of a business.

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How to Stop Website Spam Attacks

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One of the biggest headaches that those of us who design and maintain websites have are spammers. Those nefarious people who try to invade your website and use your servers to send out their junk to the masses. Since I maintain my own virtual private server (VPS), one of the biggest problems was spending the time to go in and delete the bogus accounts that were created or checking the logs to see if someone had found a way to insert malicious code into the site.

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IRS Mileage Rates for 2023

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The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2023 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.

Beginning on January 1, 2023, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:

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New Corporate Taxes for 2023

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It's the beginning of new year (2023) and of course, Congress has passed some new taxes for all the corporations in the country. While this will not affect most small businesses, I will briefly discuss them here for your consideration.

The first is contained in  Notice 2023-2, which provides interim guidance regarding the application of the corporate stock repurchase excise tax until the issuance of proposed regulations.

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