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Events

Conejo Chinese Cultural Association: Tax Planning Seminar

Conejo Chinese Cultural Association presents 2013 Tax Planning Seminar with Joshua V. Azran

March 8, 2013/by Josh Azran

News

Joshua Azran is interviewed by Intuit for Intuit’s Firm of the Future article: Sustainable Methods for Surviving the Busy Tax Season

Intuit® Accountant and Advisor Customer Council member and Origins Group Founder, Joshua Azran shares some ideas for Sustainable Methods for Surviving the Busy Tax Season. Joshua V. Azran, Origins Group APC: Scan everything. As soon as documents arrive in the office, scan and catalog them along with the rest of the tax files. This process […]

February 12, 2013/by Josh Azran

Accounting, Entrepreneur, Startup, Startup Q&A

Accounting for Startups: From Bookkeeping to Taxes for Early Stage Businesses

Accurate record keeping for a startup is a fundamental practice. It is never too soon to develop best practices for your early-stage venture’s financial records. Quality data leads to actionable information which is the backbone of business intelligence. High-quality information is a necessity for accurate decision making in the operations of any business. Rather than being […]

January 28, 2013/by Josh Azran

Corporate Income Tax, Entrepreneur, Federal Tax Law Updates, Partnership Income Tax, Tax Planning

Maximizing Deductions for Business-Use Vehicles

How would you like to squeeze more time out of your busy week, cut down on record-keeping duties, and reduce piles of paperwork and old receipts? The optional standard mileage rates for business vehicles can help you do just that. Businesses that operate up to four vehicles at the same time can deduct this standard […]

January 26, 2013/by Josh Azran

Events, Startup

Meet YEC’s Rahim Fazal of Involver on #StartupLab

Rahim Fazal, this week’s live chat host (click here to RSVP), still remembers the exact moment he knew he would be a lifelong entrepreneur. It was June 14th, 2000. Rahim was in his senior year at high school, and he’d just sold his first venture, a Web hosting company, for a sweet $1.5 million. “Up to that […]

January 7, 2013/by Josh Azran

C-Corporation, Corporate Income Tax, Entrepreneur, Estate Tax, Federal Tax Law Updates, Gift Tax, Individual Income Tax, International Tax, Partnership Income Tax, S-Corporation, Startup, State Tax, Tax Planning

Overview of the 2012 American Taxpayer Relief Act / Fiscal Cliff Legislation

After weeks, indeed months of proposals and counter-proposals, seemingly endless negotiations and down-to-the-wire drama, Congress has passed legislation to avert the tax side of the so-called “fiscal cliff.” The American Taxpayer Relief Act permanently extends the Bush-era tax cuts for lower and moderate income taxpayers, permanently “patches” the alternative minimum tax (AMT), provides for a permanent 40 […]

January 4, 2013/by Josh Azran

Events, Startup

Meet Nick Friedman of College Hunks Hauling Junk on #StartupLab

When Nick Friedman (this week’s live chat host — RSVP here) and his best friend Omar Soliman co-founded College Hunks Hauling Junk, all they had was a beat-up van and a local service. But what started as a small business went VERY big, very fast, following a storm of media attention and customer demand. Nick and Omar — who […]

December 31, 2012/by Josh Azran

C-Corporation, Corporate Income Tax, Entrepreneur, Federal Tax Law Updates, Individual Income Tax, Partnership Income Tax, S-Corporation, Startup, Tax Planning

Planning Opportunities for New 3.8-Percent Medicare Tax Using S Corporations

Planning Opportunities for New 3.8-Percent Medicare Tax Using S Corporations The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act implemented Code Sec. 1411, which imposes a new 3.8-percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher-income individuals. The tax will take effect January 1, 2013, and applies to the net investment income of […]

December 7, 2012/by Josh Azran

C-Corporation, Corporate Income Tax, Individual Income Tax, S-Corporation, State Tax

California Income Tax Update

An estimated tax underpayment penalty will not be imposed against taxpayers who underpay their estimated California personal income taxes to the extent that the underpayment was created or increased as a result of the personal income tax rate increases just approved by the voters with the passage of Proposition 30. California law contains a safe-harbor […]

November 27, 2012/by Josh Azran

Entrepreneur, Startup

Welcome to #StartupLab at Origins Group APC: Your one-stop shop for all things entrepreneurship!

Have you ever thought about what you would ask the founders of the world’s most successful startups — like RentTheRunway, 99Designs and iContact? If you could really pick their founders’ brains, what would you MOST want to know? We have some exciting news to share with you — you don’t have to wonder anymore. You can ask […]