Dual green gains from working at home
It used to be working at home was a way to tell the boss to shove it, exit the rat race, work in your jammies and get a few tax benefits in the process. Now home workers can also boast ...
View ArticleWork-at-home owners catch mortgage malaise
Home-based business owners and other self-employed workers are the latest victims of mortgage market malaise. Self-employed workers often use income tax returns, IRS (Internal Revenue Service) Form...
View ArticleAvoiding home-based business blunders
Tapping your home’s potential as a business venue lets you cash in on the intrinsic value of a roof over your head without treating it like an ATM. The benefits are numerous. • A home-based business...
View ArticleStarting a home-based business as an economic refuge? Insure it
Recession refugees who turn to a home-based business to make ends meet threaten their livelihood if they aren’t properly insured. Homeowner policies limit coverage for work-at-home ventures and that...
View ArticleWhere’s the bail out for home-based businesses?
Isn’t it time for a big fat tax credit for home-based businesses? They’ve paid their dues. Home-based business owners typically don’t qualify for unemployment benefits, they can’t buy job-loss...
View Article1099 Nation
One in five works as a ’1099er,’ helping to support an unsupportive economy. Some of them are reluctant, others entrepreneurial, a third variety is a hybrid of both and many of them work from home....
View ArticleHome-based businesses get tiny, after thought-sized slice of economic relief
An updated federal rule should make business opportunity offers more transparent and less prone to fraud, but the rule is small potatoes for the largely-ignored work-at-home economic sector. A Federal...
View ArticleIRS offering simplified home office deduction for 3.4 million taxpayers
Beginning with the 2013 tax return, an estimated 3.4 million taypayers with a home-based business taking the home office deduction will get a simplified option to figure the deduction.
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