Free Tax, Accounting & Bookkeeping Guides for NJ Business Owners

How to Use These Resources

If you are just starting a business, begin with our entity-selection guide and the QuickBooks setup walkthrough — both are linked under Guides & Checklists. The decisions you make in the first ninety days (LLC vs. S-Corp election, accounting method, chart of accounts) compound for years. Getting them right at the start is dramatically cheaper than reworking them later.

If you are preparing for tax season, the Tax Calendar lists every federal and NJ deadline that affects pass-through entities, C-corps, payroll, and individual filers. Pair it with the document checklist on the Guides page so nothing in your records gets overlooked. Most taxpayer underpayment penalties trace back to a missed quarterly estimate, not a botched return — the calendar exists to prevent that.

If you are actively managing a business, the blog is the most actively updated section. We publish on NJ-specific topics (the SALT workaround, BAIT election mechanics, sales-tax nexus changes), federal updates that move the needle for small businesses (Section 179, bonus depreciation, R&D capitalization), and recurring problems we see in client engagements (mismatched 1099s, incorrect S-Corp shareholder basis, missed reasonable-compensation analysis).

If your situation is outside the patterns these resources cover, that is the right time to talk to a CPA. The IRS does not give partial credit for good-faith reliance on a generic article. Schedule a free consultation and we will work through your specific facts.

A note on what we deliberately do not include here. We do not publish a roster of aggressive tax-shelter strategies, doorway pages targeting every imaginable city-and-service keyword combination, or AI-generated "tax tips" rephrased from federal publications. Those are the patterns Google increasingly demotes and that the IRS increasingly examines. The resources we publish are the ones we would actually want our own clients reading, written by the same CPAs who would advise on the underlying decisions in a paid engagement.

If you are an existing ProAxis client, the resources here are intended to supplement — not replace — the conversations you are already having with your engagement CPA. Specific tax positions on your return depend on facts only your CPA has full visibility into, and a published article cannot capture the weighing of facts that goes into a real recommendation. Use the resources as background context that makes the engagement conversation more productive, and route the actual decisions through the engagement.