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

Kamoroff, Bernard B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493040200 ISBN 13: 9781493040209

Publisher: Lyons Press, 2019

Synopsis

Small Time Operator is one of the most popular business start-up guides ever. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author covers:

• Getting permits and licenses
• How to finance a business
• 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, and patents

In this new edition, the book will feature a section on surviving the Global Information Grid or GIG economy. The on-demand economy, also known as the sharing economy or the gig economy, is a new and greatly expanding business model that is basically nothing more than a mobile app that connects people who need some type of service—a ride, a delivery, a plumber, a house cleaner—with individuals who provide that service. There are hundreds of thousands of newly self-employed individuals. Uber alone claims that they have 160,000 workers just in California. The great majority of these on demand workers have zero experience or knowledge about self-employment. This book will give on-demand workers everything they need to know about being self-employed.

Bernard B. Kamoroff is a C.P.A. with over thirty years of experience specializing in small business. A University of California lecturer, he is the author of five books on business and taxes.

About this title

About the Author

Bernard B. Kamoroff is a C.P.A. with over thirty years of experience specializing in small business. A University of California lecturer, he is the author of five books on business and taxes.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493040200
• ISBN 13: 9781493040209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272