Running a Home-Based Business


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Summer Tax Tips

By Barbara Weltman |  Jul 16, 2007

Use the slow summer months to consider how you might best decrease your tax burden. Inc. Expert Barbara Weltman offers five tips to help you get started. ...  Watch video


Bootstrapping 101: Work From Home

By Max Chafkin |  Jul 1, 2006

Yvonne Shortt launched a marketing firm from the cramped, toy-strewn basement of her home--now she has five full-time employees, who also work from home.  Read more


Deducting Your Home Office Expenses

By Barbara Weltman |  Mar 1, 2006

Home office deductions can offer excellent tax savings for entrepreneurs. However, there are very specific rules that apply to home-based small business owners.  Read more


How to Set Up a Home-Based Business

Jan 26, 2006

Here's what you should consider before you decide to run a company from your home.  Read more


Keeping Business Records for Tax Purposes

By Barbara Weltman |  Jan 1, 2003

There's no time like the present to start getting your paperwork in order for next year's tax season.  Read more


Trading Places: Are You Ready for Self-Employment?

By John Case |  Nov 1, 2002

Thinking of chucking the security of a job to become a soloist? Make sure you understand the forces that keep most people trapped in cubicles and dreaming of...  Read more


The Work-at-Home Diaries

By Joseph Rosenbloom |  Feb 1, 2002

Offers show up every day in your E-mailbox promising that you can escape your straitjacketing day job and make plenty of money working from home. Could it be...  Read more


Proxim's Cordless PC Networking Solution

By Keith Camp |  Oct 10, 2000

Proxim's cordless PC networking solution offers simple installation and use, but a few glitches might trip up novices.  Read more


Taxing Matters for the Home Office

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Dec 1, 1999

A new set of rules from Congress in 1999 broadened the guidelines for home office deductions. Do you qualify?  Read more


You Think You Can File an Accurate Tax Return, Do You?

Nov 19, 1999

When it comes to paying taxes, independent professionals should consider if they can tackle the project themselves.  Read more


How Planned Development Rules (CCRs) Affect Home-Based Businesses

Oct 21, 1999

In subdivisions, condos and planned-unit developments, rules pertaining to home-based businesses are often significantly stricter than those found in city or...  Read more


Can I Claim a Tax Deduction for a Part-Time Home-Based Business?

Oct 21, 1999

Your business must be more than a disguised hobby--it has to pass muster with the IRS as a real business.  Read more


Meeting's at 9. I'll Be the One in Slippers

By John Grossmann |  May 15, 1998

Home-based businesses are gaining new legitimacy as affordable office technology levels the playing field and a growing number of downsized executives opt to...  Read more


Nine Steps Toward the Home Office of Your Dreams

By Debra Cash |  Mar 17, 1998

What to think about when it comes to design, equipment, and management.  Read more


Cybersecretary

Jan 1, 1998

Program your telephone to handle everything while you're away from your one-person business.  Read more


Non-Taxing Matters

By Ellen DePasquale |  Mar 15, 1997

A small-business automation expert looks at several popular tax preparation software packages.  Read more


Resource: Phones for Soloists

By Phaedra Hise |  Mar 1, 1996

A quick review of the book Telecom Made Easy.  Read more


Things We Love

By Joshua D. Macht |  Dec 15, 1995

A CEO tells readers about a service that brings him CD-quality sound through his local cable company.  Read more


How Information Technology Is Leveling the Playing Field

By Sarah Schafer |  Dec 15, 1995

Various business people discuss how technology allows them to compete with the "big boys."  Read more


CEO Compensation: The ABCs of Paying Yourself

By Karen E. Carney |  Sep 1, 1995

Advice from experts and CEOs that adds up to primer for execs to figure out their annual salaries.  Read more


Tool on the Hill

By Scott Eriksson |  Mar 15, 1995

A software developer discusses what equipment he uses to stay connected to his office while he works in a log cabin.  Read more


More On Home Offices

Nov 1, 1981

Meet the college professor who lost his war with the Internal Revenue Service but who may have won an important battle for others.  Read more


How to Make $10 Million from Home in 4 Easy Steps

By Max Chafkin

Plenty of Fish founder Markus Frind runs a company that makes $10 million a year—from home. Here's how.  View slideshow


Recession Feeds Increase of Home-based Businesses

By Lauren Folino

More than half of all businesses in the United States are now home based.  Read more


Coworking Spaces Grow in Popularity

By Sarah Kessler

How shared working spaces are facilitating start-ups.  Read more