Tuesday 29 September 2009

Personal and Business Finances

If you are fixing to set up your own small business, the one thing that you will want to make sure that you do is open a separate business banking account.  Do not combine your personal and business finances together.  If you ever decide to incorporate your small business, it is required by the IRS to have a separate account.  However, if you choose not to incorporate the small business you will want to make sure that you have a clean and accurate accounting system.

The IRS will make you establish that in the beginning that your small business is a business and not just a hobby.  So by keeping a separate banking account will make it very easy to make the determination.  It will also help you keep a clean case if the IRS was to ever decide to audit your business.

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