Tax Planning Workbook - 2021 and Beyond
This workbook is a hands on process. Our intent is to show you the process of producing a tax plan for your business.
Tax Planning is to make you aware of:
- Some of the many tactics allowed by tax law.
- Ways you can maneuver business activities to bring taxes down both business and personal.
- The process of developing a tax plan.
Getting started:
You will need your business’ financial statements year to date. These statements then need to be projected to the end of this calendar year.
Picturing Your Financial World
Identifying your financial assets and their relationships
One way to see your financial world and its many aspects is a “Playing Field Graphic.” This graphic shows all of the “players” in your financial world. “Players” are entities or activities that exist in your financial world. The “Players” tend to be accumulated but not necessarily planned.
Financial World “Playing Field Graphic”, a picture of your financial world
Your Financial World “Playing Field Graphic” is a pictorial representation of all of your financial assets in the form of players (entities and activities that make up your financial situation).
What You Need to Know Before Starting a Business
Critical Areas of Consideration
Creating A Business
Most people who want to start a business have the same question, what do I need to know to have a business that works? Building a successful business remains one of the great mysteries in our modern society. Is the secret luck, hard work, who you know, what you know, or unknowable? While there are many sources of information on each of the various parts of a business, none seem to be complete, because it is a very complex process.
Business Help Resources
- Can You Use Independent Contractors?
- Doing Business in the 21st Century Electronic World
- How to Get Up and Running
- Notice to LLC Owners
- Ten Essential Business Functional Areas
- The Money Pump
- Understanding Risk Management
- What You Need to Know Before Starting a Business
- What You Need to Know When Your Business Needs Workers



