Cool tax tip website - no, that's not an oxymoron
At some point in time Dennis' site led me to stumble upon tastytax.com, which is run by a tax lawyer out to provide some useful advice.
The page I linked to is cool in itself because it shares a thirteen-point list of suggestions on how to manage your small business' records if your business is really small (so you can't afford a full-on part-time bookkeeper), and organizing your records isn't your strong suit.
The advice is both straightforward and clever. Like remembering to open a separate business account to keep your personal and business funds from getting mixed up in case the tax man comes around and audits you.
Four of the thirteen points are actually just steps to point out how simple it is to keep track of how much money you earned in sales. I found the writing to be simultaneously clever, interesting, and hilarious:
- Get those carbon pad receipt books from Staples or wherever.
- Write “2008″ on the outside of them.
- Try if you can to put the dates on the receipts when you sell
stuff. At least put a date on the first transaction of 2008 and the
last one.
- At the end of the year, Lynda’s staff will “run a tape” (YES I
KNOW!!!! ADDING MACHINES WITH A PAPER TAPE!!! WTF!!! OMG OMG
OMG!!!1ELEVEN!). That will give us gross sales for the year and a base
on which to remit sales tax collected.
I'm a sucker for the OMG!!!1!!ELEVEN gag which has been featured on Videosift before. Annoyingly, I can't find a direct link to the gag, but I welcome you to search Videosift for it.
The site's now in my Google Reader feed, I'll be following to see what else I find there. Even the about page is great and is inspiring me to re-write mine, when I find the time.
This site is clear, breezy, open, and humorous. I will pay a $5.00
penalty by Paypal to the first person to point out a four-syllable word
on the website. Hmmm. That will be hard. Alternative minimum tax.
“Alternative” is four syllables.” Gotta rethink this. Hold on a sec.
That would be a fun game. Even more fun than getting paid for sitting for interviews.
About today's photo: sure, I could come up with some esoteric rationale for linking a discussion of a blog about taxes with a shot of flying pigeons in Paris. But it's more fun if I make you come up with the rationale instead. It's better than thinking 'Tax, accounting, tax, accounting'. I want you to think, "what are these pigeons doing here?" Have fun.