Ideas for Running Your Home Business

Should I Take the Home Office Deduction?
A very helpful website for home office workers concerned about claiming their home office space as a tax deduction. Pros include reducing self-employment taxes, getting a deduction for rent and deducting part of your home expenses. Reasons to be cautious include if your home office is very small, paying taxes on the home office share of any gain when you sell your home, and the home office deduction cannot trigger a net loss.

Keeping Your Home Office Mobile
From the website YouCanWorkFromAnywhere.com, this article by "the mobile man," offers advice on keeping a fluid, mobile home office that's not tied down to one location. There are tips on accessing data from anywhere, advantages of WI-FI, tips for keeping balance, tips for managing remote and mobile workers, business flexibility, virtual office, etc.

How Can I Start to Work from Home?
This article covers all the first questions and answers, offering advice for those thinking of starting a home-based business. The article offers advice and information on starting a home business, and there are links within the text of the article to web pages within ivillage.com such as business owner's toolkit, idea café, and business profiles. The article offers advice on drawing up a business plan, marketing, and community resources.

Home Business Article Archive
From iBizTips.com comes this archive of information and articles on home busineses. Topics covered include using the web for marketing, handling requests for proposals, charging competitive prices, steps for starting a home business, freelance job boards, stress reduction, time management, and home office efficiency.

Keeping Track of Home Office Income, Expenses and Taxes
A home office is a business. As such you are seeking to make a profit. Whether you actually succeed or not in making a profit the government (the taxman) needs to understand how you have conducted your business and how you have allocated your money. This site provides 5 tips on the best ways to keep track of income and expenses and the best ways to report income and expenses to Uncle Sam. This site also has a wide range of accounting software for small business and home offices. Let's face it, the government wants its taxes and it has since before the time of Caesar. It's your job to pay only the taxes you owe and not a penny more. This site may be one step down that lower-tax road.

Escaping the Work at Home Blues
Self-employed guru Gil Gordon combines his love of travel and photography to get away from his home office. He enjoys connecting with nature, and appreciates the craft of being a nature writer as much as a nature photographer. Browse through galleries of his travels when you're cooked up in your home office, waiting for it to be vacation time.