Monday, November 21, 2011

Own a Business? Don’t Forget these Tax Deductions

Own a Business? Don’t Forget these Tax Deductions

As the year draws to a close, it’s time to think about the best ways to reduce your tax liability. If you own a business, you have quite a few options to help you on your way to a lower tax liability. Make sure, of course, that you have kept good records, and that you can back up the tax deductions you are taking.


Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Business Tax Planning: Auto Deduction

Business Tax Planning: Auto Deduction

Now that it’s almost the end of the year, it’s time to start planning what deductions to take. You want to get the most bang for your buck, reducing your tax liability as much as you can legally. One of the ways that you can reduce what you owe is to deduct some of your expenses for your vehicles.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Magnitude of asset protection – Is it really required in a volatile economy?




If you’re a business owner, it’s a pre-requisite for you to identify the most appropriate structure
through which you may run your business successfully. No what do you mean by an appropriate  
structure for your business organization? Well, an appropriate structure is that which will not  
only offer you taxation benefits but also provide your business with enough flexibility and  
safeguard it from the most common business risks. In the present volatile economy, this move  
by all business organizations is more important than ever. Failure to protect your assets may

make you run into the risk of incurring business debts and require running to business debt  
consolidation non-profit companies for financial help. But will you benefit by getting in touch 
with them or will it be just a waste of time?


Well, the debt relief companies are all there to assist you in getting out of business debts and re-
establishing a firm footing in the market, but is it not always better to stay safe than sorry? You  
bet it is. An effective business structure does not always need to be complex but rather requires
enough consideration of the present and future needs of the business organization.



The increasingly litigious economic environment in the US makes asset protection a mandatory 
consideration for all business owners who are keen on staying afloat. A business organization 
might be at the risk of being sued by its customers, suppliers, employees and even by the 
regulatory bodies for breach of law. This is the reason why the business structure that you choose 
must provide high level of protection of your personal financial assets of the company. Does this 
mean that the personal assets of the business owner are not at risk of being sued? Yes, it is not at

risk unless the company is proven to be trading while being insolvent. During such a situation,  
the Director’s personal assets may also be at risk.


Using a Trust structure to operate a business can be a good asset management strategy that you 
can adopt. Through a Trust structure, the assets of the business will be separated from that of the 
individual and this will enhance asset protection of the company as a whole. The Trust is not a 
separate entity but the business operations will be held in the name of the trustee. However, a 
note of caution is always given by the asset management experts that you must ensure that the 
personal assets are held separately from the business. When the business underperforms your 
personal assets may be at risk and this can only be avoided by effective business structure.


Often there are business owners who do not have a perfect Will in place or have a Will that was 
drafted ages ago. Such Wills that were drafted ages ago usually do not reflect the present asset 
holdings and the financial circumstances. When a Will is appropriately crafted, it will provide 
effective asset protection for your family by ensuring that the assets are equally distributed 
among your beneficiaries of choice, in the event of your death.


There may be some other structures like operating your business in your own name as the only 
trader of the company or through a partnership structure. But such aforementioned structures do 
not provide flexibility to distribute the income and also offers low levels of asset protection for t
he company. With so much economic uncertainty at the moment, asset protection is one of the 
things that you can do in order to get back your peace of mind, irrespective of what is happening 
in the economy.