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7 Tax Planning Strategies for Small Businesses

The Startup Magazine

As tax filing season approaches, small business owners start to panic. Small business tax planning is a crucial task to get right from the beginning. Here we have listed seven tax planning strategies for small businesses to lower their tax burden. Does your business provide health insurance?

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Why You Can’t Afford To Wait To Create A Succession Plan For Your Small Business

YoungUpstarts

Whereas, small businesses are at a much bigger disadvantage and those that don’t have a bona-fide succession plan in place either struggle and lose money trying to remain active, go into liquidation mode, or go bankrupt and go into receivership. 2: Human Resources & Appointing A New Small Business Successor.

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Obama proposes no capital gains tax on qualified small business stock

Startup Company Lawyer

One proposal would dramatically improve the treatment of “ qualified small business stock &# issued after February 17, 2009. If enacted, this would significantly enhance the tax incentives currently available for qualified small business stock. ELIMINATE CAPITAL GAINS TAXATION ON INVESTMENTS IN SMALL BUSINESS STOCK.

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How Employee Share Schemes Work

YoungUpstarts

Whereas SAYE is a tax-advantaged employee share scheme, you must pay Capital Gains Tax when after selling the shares. The EMI employee shares scheme is an excellent choice for small startup firms with no more than 250 full-time employees. If a company staff sells these shares, they may be eligible to pay Capital Gains Tax.

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Thoughts on Convertible Notes

K9 Ventures

When an investor buys equity in a priced round, the capital gains clock on that stock starts as of the date of investment. However, in the case of a note, and especially for notes with long maturity dates, the capital gains clock doesn’t start ticking till the the note converts. and it is a positive outcome.

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Convertible Debt: Worst Form Of Seed Financing — Except For All The Others

Gust

There are some other nuances, but those are the primary differences introduced with the concept of convertible equity.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

For states with state income taxes, creating state/local level Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) rules to incent company development and early-stage investing would help too. State and local government States can limit non-competes and non-solicits, which would help with job mobility and enabling entrepreneurship in more places.