{"id":2901,"date":"2010-06-10T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.huddlestontaxcpas.com\/CPA%20Article\/starting-a-new-business-a-checklist\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:43:09","slug":"starting-a-new-business-a-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/blog\/starting-a-new-business-a-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting A New Business &#8211; A Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking to start your own business?\u00a0 Below is a quick checklist of things you will need to do when starting your own small business.\u00a0 This is a starting point as\u00a0there may be other steps required for the business type you select.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Apply for your Employer Identification Number (EIN) with the Internal Revenue Service &#8211; this can be done online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Select a business structure.\u00a0 You can choose to be a Sole Proprietor, an LLC, a Partnership, a Corporation, or an S-Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Choose your tax year.\u00a0 For most business types this will simply be a calendar year ending on December 31st.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Register with your State and possibly your City or County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 If you are starting off with employees make sure you have them fill out the form I-9 and the form\u00a0W-4.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 Make sure you file all required tax returns and pay all required taxes!<\/p>\n<p>Often times new business owners find all of these steps to be overwhelming or will accidently miss a step.\u00a0 Often times it will be in your best interest to hire a CPA or lawyer to help you in this set up process.\u00a0 If you should be in need of help with starting your new business feel free to contact us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huddlestontax.com\/\">http:\/\/www.huddlestontax.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/huddlestontax.com\/\">Jessica Chisholm, CPA<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huddlestontax.com\/\">Seattle\/Bellevue Tax Accountants<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking to start your own business?\u00a0 Below is a quick checklist of things you will need to do when starting your own small business.\u00a0 This is a starting point as\u00a0there may be other steps required for the business type you select. 1.\u00a0 Apply for your Employer Identification Number (EIN) with the Internal Revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-small-business","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huddlestontaxcpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}