Small Business Tax Preparation: Why Year-Round Planning Beats a Panic in April
Every March, as the tax deadline looms, I watch the same scene unfold in the offices of small business owners across Canada. A stack of receipts lands on a desk, a pile of spreadsheets lands on another, and someone is frantically calling their accountant asking if they can still claim that mileage from July. The problem is not that these owners are disorganised. The problem is that they have been told, year after year, that tax preparation is a one-week event in spring. It i
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Every March, as the tax deadline looms, I watch the same scene unfold in the offices of small business owners across Canada. A stack of receipts lands on a desk, a pile of spreadsheets lands on another, and someone is frantically calling their accountant asking if they can still claim that mileage from July. The problem is not that these owners are disorganised. The problem is that they have been told, year after year, that tax preparation is a one-week event in spring. It i
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