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The Difference Between Stocks And Crypto, And How Crypto Affects Taxes; The Short Version

When it comes to the topic of crypto or cryptocurrency, we’re never going to claim that we’re experts. When it comes to taxes we know a lot more on how to handle them. Still, we’d feel remiss if we didn’t talk a little bit about what crypto is and how it compares to stocks, which most people have heard about but might not understand either.

not a bitcoin!

Let’s talk about stocks, the stock market and investing. A quick explanation about stocks is that they’re investments in a company or corporation. You can buy them through a stockbroker or some kind of digital application run by either individuals or companies.
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Yearly Tax Update; 2022

Thanks for everyone who’s visited this blog and worked with us in 2021. Here are a few updates we wish to share with everyone as it pertains to our business, your business and taxes in general for 2022.

Normally we don’t have an “our business” spot in our yearly update, but we have exciting news we wish to share. We’ve moved to a new location, though we’re still in the area. Our new address is 403 East Taft Road, North Syracuse. If you’re familiar with the area, we’re across the street from the main post office. Lots of parking in the rear, totally dedicated to use; we’re happy about that. We’re still working on the logo on our main page, but our new address has been updated at the bottom of the page.
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Should You Get A Part Time Job?

One of the main themes on this blog is helping to advise people on how to be more fiscally responsible. We talk about budgeting often because we don’t believe anyone can get ahead and feel secure with their financial situation long term without knowing how much money they’re bringing in, how much is going to bills, how much is being put away and how much is left to begin thinking about other things you might want to buy.

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Sometimes people wait too long to get financial counseling, and then they discover they’re making less than what their bills are costing them, or barely breaking even. This leaves people with 5 basic choices for getting out of trouble:
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Should You Hire An Employee For Your Small Business?

Something that every sole entrepreneur learns at some point is that they need help with “something”. It could be with sales, answering the phones, handling marketing… almost anything.


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When you get to this point, it begs this question: do you hire or hire out? For some it’s an easy answer; for others it’s complicated. As an owner, you have to think about what’s at stake for your business.
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Not Filing Taxes When You’re Owed Money Is A Bad Idea

I know a lot of people who say that if the IRS owes them money that they don’t file their taxes. Some of these folks are owed literally hundreds, even thousands of dollars. I can’t comprehend why they wouldn’t want their money, but from an accounting perspective it’s still a bad idea not to file yearly and on time.


One fact is that if you’re sure you don’t owe taxes, you’re exempt from filing by the yearly deadline. The magic word there is “sure”. If you file later in the year or the next year and they calculate that you indeed owed something, you’ll not only earn a penalty but it’ll be calculated monthly for every month you were delinquent. The rate won’t be the same each month either; the balance will compound like a credit card.
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