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Professionals like doctors, lawyers, and IT workers often pay a hefty amount of tax. Smart professionals often use the service of various agencies and save on their enormous taxes. They get more tax returns than they expected using certain strategic moves. All professionals can use these tips and tricks to save their hard-earned money and use it for other critical monetary needs. Even startups that haven’t started earning an income and paying the taxes can get a refund from their operational expenses to help them run the business. Read this list of the top five tips most professionals use to save huge money effortlessly. Deduction on startup expenses ...

Before buying second-hand lab equipment, you should consider several things. After paying for the equipment and claiming ownership, there might be no going back. The money invested in that equipment might not even get paid back if you have purchased defective equipment. How can you avoid this? By conducting thorough due diligence. Here are the main factors to consider before buying used lab equipment: The kind of equipment you will need First of all, when setting up a lab with second-hand lab equipment, you need to identify what equipment is needed. The kind of equipment you will need should dominantly be based on your lab type. For example, there ...

Top-quality tenants are every landlord’s dream. They pay their rent on time, never cause trouble, and look after the property they are renting. A landlord with such tenants can rest easy compared with one who has a revolving door of short-term unruly tenants who never seem to have their rent money when it is due. The pool of potential renters shrinks during a recession as people cannot afford to pay rent. What can you do to ensure that you snap up the best tenants before another landlord does? Work with professionals There are many affordable property management companies that are happy to get you the best possible tenants for a rental property. ...

Starting a business cannot be done hastily. You will need to do some research to find out more about your industry, the market and your competitors. You will need to find out whether people will buy your products and services and how to reduce certain risks. You will need to know how much capital you need for startup costs and much more. The following are some important questions to ask in advance. How will I get capital? Starting a business is likely to require money you don’t have. You will need to find ways to get capital for your startup costs. Many entrepreneurs start a business without enough capital and have difficulties right from the ...

What is the National Debt? The United States government receives revenue and spends revenue. When the federal government is gaining more revenue than it spends, a surplus of government funds exists. Conversely, when federal spending is higher than the amount of revenue being gained, then a budget deficit occurs. The total amount of the budget deficit is what is known as the national debt. On the surface, it sounds pretty similar to our debt on an individual consumer level, but it’s not. The major difference here is that Congress gets to decide what to tax, how to spend and whether or not they are going to pay the federal debt. While presidents have a right ...

Junior Achievement of Utah is a non-profit that provides financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship lessons to students across Utah with the support of local businesses and volunteers. We provide both in class programs for students K-12 and for 5th and 8th grade students we have an experiential, hands-on program where students come to JA City, a mini-municipality at the Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum. 5th Grade students participate in JA City which provides them with the opportunity to be “adults-for-the-day” running the City in various jobs and capacities. The 8th grade students participate in Finance Park where the students are given a life ...

Below are some headlines from around the internet over the past few days. I'll include references soon. Enjoy! Financing Q4 2016 marks the first quarter since 2011 that more residential solar customers chose cash/loans than lease/PPA’s to finance their solar panels. “ The end came in the fourth quarter of 2016, when only 47% of new residential solar installations were leased or operated under owner-purchase agreements (PPAs), according to new research from GTM Research. That’s the first time in six years that the portion of third-party solar had dipped below 50% in the residential sector.” Nicole Litvak (Senior Solar Analyst) “contends ...