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January 31st Is Closer Than You Think – W-2 & 1099 Reminder

W-2 and 1099 Delivery Deadlines for the 2025 Tax Season Every year, January seems to move faster than expected. Before most businesses have fully settled into the new year, a major compliance deadline arrives that cannot be ignored. January 31, 2025 is the deadline to deliver W-2s and 1099s to employees, contractors, and the appropriate [...]

From Bank Statement to QBO; Clean, Reconciled, and Ready to Use

If you are searching for bank statement to QBO, chances are you are trying to solve one of three problems. You are new to QuickBooks Online and want to get started the right way.You already imported bank data and something does not look right.Or your CPA or tax preparer told you the books need to [...]

How QB-LA Uses QuickBooks Online’s New AI Agents to Support Your Business

Continuing on from our article The New Quickbooks AI Experience; the latest version of QuickBooks Online has introduced a set of AI agents designed to work alongside you and your accounting team. Think of them as background teammates who take on the repetitive work, surface important information, and keep your books moving forward. You remain [...]

Understanding the 2025 ADA Tax Credits for Small Businesses

For 2025, the Disabled Access Credit remains one of the most overlooked incentives available to small businesses in the United States. This credit helps business owners offset the cost of improving accessibility for customers and employees with disabilities. If you are planning upgrades to your facilities, equipment, or digital properties, understanding how this credit works [...]

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Paying Yourself as a Small Business Owner

A problem that many small business owners struggle with is a very basic one - how to pay yourself! It might feel weird to pay yourself as the owner of your own business, but you owe yourself a salary or some form of compensation while you’re maintaining and growing your business. Whether you use Intuit [...]

Intuit Launches QuickBooks Commerce for Online Stores

Big news!  Intuit has just launched QuickBooks Commerce. This addition to the growing portfolio of Intuit accounting solutions will be welcomed by QuickBooks Online product (vs services) sellers who need inventory management, order processing and accounting automations across multiple sales channels.  This includes users of eBay, Amazon, Squarespace, WooCommerce, Shopify, Magento, Zapier, Etsy, Shipstation and [...]

S. S. Payroll Tax Deferral Program – Help or Headache?

The latest payroll tax deferral program was recently rushed into existence as part of the U.S. government’s response to the Coronavirus and continues to evolve – and much remains unclear.  Major questions remain which most employers must unfortunately deal with as they remain in the middle, between both the IRS and employees.  For example, it [...]

Preparing QB Desktop files for import into QB Online

As more and more firms make the move from PC and server-based QB Desktop (“QBD”) to cloud-based QuickBooks Online (“QBO”) file size can be a concern, especially for QuickBooks Desktop files containing many years of transactions. However this conversion is a good time to purge your system of old and useless entries (vendors and customers [...]

Help Applying for CARES

The SBA CARES Act On March 27, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law the CARES Act (the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) — a significant piece of legislation that provides approximately $2 trillion of economic assistance in various forms to both consumers and businesses. As a part of CARES, the Small [...]

Los Angeles City Small Business Emergency Microloan Program

IRS FTB UPDATE: COVID-19: IRS and CAL FTB Tax file and pay deadlines extended to July 15, 2020. - Outdated links removed 2025 COVID-19 has hammered our southern California economy, as a large portion of businesses – and workers – are now in hibernation.  No one really knows when we can all just get back [...]