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Before I dive into some year end tax strategies Kern Countybusiness owners can and should be making, I want to address some rumors and misinformation about the SALT workarounds that are available to some of our clients (though not all).Essentially, 22 states (as of...

Whether you like it or not, you’ve most likely found yourself in a fight against inflation. Somebody hikes prices on your supplier and suddenly your supplier has no choice but to increase the price on you. Then you have no choice but to raise the price on your...

There are many of our clients for whom this time of year is like their version of the Super Bowl. Some Kern County businesses are earning 30-50% (or more) of their yearly revenue in this one month.Others ... well, this is a normal month -- except of course for all of...

Blink, and we're already into December.Which also means… 2022 is right around the corner.Are you ready?The reason I put this so starkly is that you and I have less than 30 days left to make a tangible difference on your taxes (business or personal).For your business...

If your Kern County business sells a lot online, then we’re coming into the most wonderful time of the year.And this year, your customers will probably shop your website (and elsewhere online) EARLY in order to bypass all those supply-chain snafus. Cha-ching for...

“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” I think we can agree that Charles Dickens’s famous lines ring true when looking back at 2020 and 2021 (though “best” might seem like a stretch).With employees shifting their worlds to make room for new priorities,...

The shape of your business affects your future and when I'm talking about the "shape," I of course am referring to your Kern County business entity type.Did you know that you CAN change that after the fact? Depending on which entity you are switching to, the process...

How’s your client/customer list faring these days?If you’re like every other business around you, you’ve got some churn happening. People move, change jobs, experience a shift in financial circumstances … the list goes on. Even in predictable economic times (remember...

Are you watching your COGS these days?(I, ahem, hope you know what those letters stand for, because if not ... well, then we should DEFINITELY talk. 661-872-7696 )Has it gone up?You're probably not alone given what kind of signals the economy is sending these days.In...

Your employees are happy, right? They’re never going to leave you ... right?They’re not looking for another Kern County job ... uh ... right?You know what the answers are: Maybe, wrong, and I sure hope not.Sooner or later, the advantage will swing back to you, the...

Any of you Kern County business owners remember those halcyon days when you could "talk a little business" with somebody while traveling ... and then you got to write off the whole getaway on your taxes?Even if that ever really happened, that ain’t today. Now, the...

Remember when the monster cargo ship Ever Given jammed the Suez Canal? After the Givenhad been stuck just five days, almost 400 other freighters were backed up waiting to pass through the Canal. Experts began predicting temporary shortages of everything from exercise...