Get an accountant as soon as you have $10k in revenue. Open a new CC account; put all business expenses on the CC. Keep a detailed travel log so that you'll b

Get an accountant as soon as you have $10k in revenue. Open a new CC account; put all business expenses on the CC. Keep a detailed travel log so that you'll be sustained on the possible eventual audit of your travel expenses. The single best thing a consultancy can do to decrease tax burden is keep really good books on expenses. Don't drop $14k worth of CC receipts on the floor prior to entry; that costs you $5k+. Also as a software engineer you get far, far, far more economic advantage from working on your business than from tax optimization. Get people to do that for you; spend as little time and brain sweat on it as possible. I use bench.co for bookkeeping. Best money I every spent. Talk to your accountant about retirement funding options; they're the modestly-more-brainsweat required option for decreasing present-year tax burden.