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Lance Wallach

FACT - "The Federal Tax Code is composed of 45,662 pages that require taxpayers to choose from 703 different forms. The Internal Revenue Code has grown to almost 1.4 million words today and is now 500,000 words longer than the Bible."

There is another unequivocal fact that every small businessperson should know - "small privately held businesses pay a considerably higher percentage of their earnings to taxes than do large corporations in America."

Though competent and qualified, the attorneys and accountants serving the small business community are not tax specialists. They are general practitioners. Small business attorneys focus mainly on legal matters such as contracts, entity formation and debt collections. Small business accountants wear many hats, such as: handling the books, interacting with the state and federal revenue services, reconciling bank records, preparing quarterly wage reports, etc. They simply don't have the time to spend 50 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, learning the intricacies of the ever changing tax code and applying the tax saving opportunities that lie within it.

When it comes to taxes, we have consistently found that most small businesses are merely doing year-end compliance work. Year-end tax compliance is what the IRS requires of a business. Basically, your accountant subtracts your expenses from your revenues, throws in the standard deductions and tells you how much you owe Uncle Sam. Does this sound familiar?

Small businesses should, like big businesses, properly structure their organizations to take advantage of the tax code.