What's New
- Getting Ready for the Filing Season 2008: Part 2 (Businesses), on Tuesday, January 8, 2008
- "Small Business Growth: Searching for Stylized Facts," SBA Office of Advocacy
IRS’s January 8th Tax Talk Today Program Gives Small Businesses a Head Start on the Upcoming Tax Filing Season
The 2008 filing season is right around the corner. The IRS’s January Tax Talk Today program, “Getting Ready for the Filing Season 2008: Part 2 (Businesses)”, on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 2 p.m. will give tax professionals, their clients, and small business owners a head start.
This annual program picks up where the December program, Getting Ready for the Filing Season 2008: Part 1 (Individuals), ended. The show’s panel of experts will discuss business tax return issues for small businesses and self-employed taxpayers, recent tax law changes and updates for the 2007 tax year, IRS regulations, business credits, common errors, and processing issues which impact filing business returns for the 2007 tax year.
Sponsored by the IRS, Tax Talk Today is a free, live, monthly interactive Web cast aimed at educating tax professionals and their business clients on the most contemporary and complex tax issues. They are encouraged to watch and submit questions. Tax professionals in need of continuing education credits (CECs) are eligible to receive one CEC by viewing the January 8th Webcast.
The one-hour live programs begin at 2 p.m. ET on the second Tuesday of each month except April and August. In addition to viewing live Webcasts and archived programs, listening to audio podcasts and reading show transcripts, subscribers can order audio and video recordings from the Tax Talk Today Web site.
To access the Webcast at no charge, viewers can register online. Tax Talk Today can be viewed with Windows Media Player and Real Player. Both players are free software that may already be installed on your computer. If not, click the link for Installing System Software to view Internet Broadcast under “How to View.”
If you missed the program, the December 11 Webcast is accessible for viewing via archive for 12 months at Tax Talk Today. A transcript of the show is also available, as well as an audio podcast.
To learn about the availability of IRS products and services, subscribe to IRS’s e-News for Small Businesses. To see a representative sample and to start a free subscription to e-News, just go to IRS.gov at http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/content/0,,id=154826,00.html, type in your e-mail address and submit.
"Small Business Growth: Searching for Stylized Facts" is an Office of Advocacy working paper by Brian Headd and Bruce Kirchhoff.
The authors analyzed data from special tabulations of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB) database. The SUSB data provided information on how firms started, grew, merged, declined, survived, and closed from 1992 to 2002. The authors found that growing firms are generally a constant share of the economy with a minor business cycle effect, firms with employment growth outnumber firms with employment decline, and fast growing firms in a given year tend to revert to the mean in later years.
A full copy of this report is available at: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs311tot.pdf, and the research summary can be found at: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/rs311.pdf. Should you need further information, please feel free to contact Brian Headd at (202) 205-6533 or advocacy@sba.gov.