Chapter 14

Ten (Almost) Useful Apps and Software Packages for Small Business Tax Issues

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Processing small business payments

Bullet Accounting for your small business revenue and expenses

Bullet Preparing and filing your small business income taxes

Small business owners and managers have plenty to keep track of concerning their business’ financials and taxes. So, using well designed technology to help with those tasks can be money well spent.

In this chapter, I highlight and discuss a variety of software programs and apps to help you with your small business’ taxes.

Tracking Expenses with Expensify

Expensify (www.expensify.com/) as you may surmise from its name, is an expense-tracking app. You can capture pictures of receipts on your smartphone and classify by expense category as well as download transactions from your credit card. Although its basic version is free for individual users, most users will find that they need to pay at least $4.99 per month to get the functionality that they desire. Expensify is also partnering with other companies like Lyft and Uber so that you can import expenses from those services, and Expensify can integrate with applications like QuickBooks. ...

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