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I am so confused by this comment. Accounting software for small businesses is standard. Quick books is so ubiquitous and it's dirt cheap and supposed to be oper
by iteria 2y ago
I am so confused by this comment. Accounting software for small businesses is standard. Quick books is so ubiquitous and it's dirt cheap and supposed to be operated by a lay person. There are whole professions here are almost exclusively small businesses. Trucking being a decent call out. I know several moonlighting tech people who spun up single person businesses using a template and carried on that way for years just using very basic accounting software. They do contracts and everything on their own. I have an aunt who has spun up several businesses doing business with the actual federal government and she's never had more than an accountant she has check her receipts for taxes. She has no background in anything and somehow was able to launch these businesses. I have writer friends and artist friends who have LLCs. I've never heard anything like what you're talking about.
I don't know anything about the UK, but it most certainly is not hard to spin up a business in the US.
- noodlesUK 2y agoI agree about QuickBooks being good for small businesses. Perhaps I've just been so personally burned by how complicated US compliance is from outside (form 5471 and friends being a personal boogeyman of mine) that I've missed that it's quite easy to do business inside the US. I am aware that you have to do stuff like file as a foreign business if you do business between multiple states. I don't like that you have to pay a private monopoly company (Intuit) to stand a chance of being compliant with your tax obligations over there.