Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble - Paperback

Here is the help you need to take control of your life and be a success, on your own terms:

• Getting all your permits and licenses
• How to finance your business
• Creating and using a business plan
• Do you need to incorporate?
• Keeping your records: quick and easy
• Federal, state and local taxes
• Insurance, contracts, trademarks
• Dealing with--and avoiding! --the IRS

...and much more.

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Written for small businesses, self-employed individuals, employers, professionals, independent contractors, home businesses, and Internet businesses, Small Time Operator is the most popular business start-up guide ever. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author covers getting permits and licenses; how to finance a business; finding the right business location; creating and using a business plan; choosing and protecting a business name; deciding whether to incorporate; establishing a complete bookkeeping system; hiring employees; federal, state, and local taxes; buying a business or franchise; dealing with--and avoiding--the IRS; doing business on the Internet; handling insurance, contracts, pricing, trademarks, patents, and much more. This new edition features sections on surviving the Global Information Grid--or GIG--economy. There are hundreds of thousands of newly self-employed individuals operating in this new, on-demand economy, but unfortunately the great majority of these workers have zero experience or knowledge about self-employment. This book will provide on-demand workers with everything they need to know to not only survive, but truly thrive in the modern economy.