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San Francisco Employers and Employees: New Severance Payments and FICA
When an employer terminates an employee, they often provide what is called “severance pay” or “severance payments.” These one-time payments are usually meant as a goodwill gesture to help the employee...
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Tips for Selecting a Last Minute Tax Service in San Francisco Announced by...
Safe Harbor LLP, a top San Francisco tax service, has published an informative post on tips for selecting a last minute tax service in San Francisco. The accounting firm specializes in business taxes...
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Google’s Top Tax Trends for 2014 – Food For Thought
Google, the world’s #2 search engine, has released something very interesting for tax folks. A list of the 2014 tax trends, based on Google searches. We at Safe Harbor LLP, being in San Francisco, try...
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Passive Losses (PAL) Rules and Your San Francisco Business Endeavors
San Francisco is a city of entrepreneurs. Sometimes they are very active: working in the business day-in and day-out. But other times, people are passive. There are IRS rules and regulations governing...
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San Francisco Tax Tips: August Bulletin
Happy August! August gets its name from Roman times, and here is a little bit of history on that fact: After Julius’s grandnephew Augustus defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and became emperor of...
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A CPA Firm for Corporate Finance and Accounting: Your In-House CFO
We at Safe Harbor LLP excel at accounting, tax, and the financial side of business. We eat, live, and breathe numbers. We love taxes; well, we don’t love taxes, as much as we love minimize the tax...
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Educational Courses and Business Tax Deductions for San Francisco Residents
San Francisco is a city of education, with many wonderful universities and colleges. For example, San Francisco is home to the University of San Francisco, San Francisco City College, and other fine...
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San Francisco Small Business Tax Tips for 2015: Some Resolutions
The new year the new year is of course a time of resolutions. We have many small business clients who come to us in San Francisco looking for one of the most friendly small business accounting firms in...
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New Tangible Property Regulations and San Francisco Business Depreciation
People come to us at Safe Harbor LLP to act as their “in-house” CFO and small business tax expert.. We advise on everything from how to set up a business (or startup) to how to structure employee...
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Being San Francisco’s Top Corporate Tax Service: Our Goal
Being the best is our goal, as it should be yours. Life is too short to settle for second-best, whether that’s in baseball (Go Giants!) or in Wine (Go Napa!), or in bridges (Go Golden Gate!). And so it...
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San Francisco Contractor: Are You a Contractor or a Worker (Bee)?
Business owners often struggle with whether to hire employees, or to use outside contractors. And these days many residents in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area, especially in Silicon Valley...
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Family Businesses and San Francisco: It’s Not all Tech
San Francisco is known these days as the “capital of tech.” Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp, Google – they all call the San Francisco Bay Area home. Tech, tech, tech, tech. We are the city of tech....
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Summer Tax Deadlines for Employers and Small Business
As one of San Francisco’s top-rated CPA firms for small business, we like to keep our clients informed of deadlines. It’s summer, but taxes never stop nor do tax deadlines. So while you are out...
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San Francisco New Business Formation: A Reference List
Updated: September 25, 2015. San Francisco, as we are sure you know, is a hotbed of entrepreneurship. Everyone wants to be the next Pinterest, or even the next Twitter (despite its current problems,...
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Health Plans and Small Business Taxes: a San Francisco Perspective
Small businesses in San Francisco, generally speaking, care about their employees. These days nothing is more important than health care benefits when one looks at the benefits portfolio your small...
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San Francisco Tax Tips – July 2016 – Newsletter
Retirement never ends, or at least planning for retirement. Americans are urged, constantly, to save more. But are you saving more wisely? July’s newsletter dives deep into retirement, first explaining...
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Why We Love Working with San Francisco Startups!
We love working with small business people here in the city of San Francisco. Having been around for quite some time, we have many clients who run mom and pop businesses here in the city, and who have...
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A CPA for Restaurants, A San Francisco CPA for Startups, And a CPA for…
Stop for a moment. Pull out some money. You know, the paper green kind or the hard metal kind. No, not your Apple iPay, not your credit card, but some real money! Some cold hard cash. And then I want...
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Summer Tax Deadlines for Employers and Small Business
As one of San Francisco’s top-rated CPA firms for small business, we like to keep our clients informed of deadlines. It’s summer, but taxes never stop nor do tax deadlines. So while you are out...
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San Francisco New Business Formation: A Reference List
Updated: September 25, 2015. San Francisco, as we are sure you know, is a hotbed of entrepreneurship. Everyone wants to be the next Pinterest, or even the next Twitter (despite its current problems,...
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