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

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.,