{"id":1417,"date":"2018-06-26T15:04:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunbeltnetwork.com\/bakersfield-ca\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2022-06-22T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:31:40","slug":"opportunity-knocks-for-small-business-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeltnetwork.com\/bakersfield-ca\/opportunity-knocks-for-small-business-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity Knocks for Small Business Owner!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Carol Bennett<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to sell your business now? The new tax laws are already helping small businesses save money.\u00a0Buyers on the other hand are keeping a close eye on the interest rates for loans.\u00a0Consider where we are with the economic growth and recent world affairs that continue to change, especially in the last six months. Keep tuned in with news headlines which will help keep tabs on whether the global benchmark will change.\u00a0Here are four important areas to consider if you are thinking about waiting for the \u201cperfect moment\u201d to sell:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Small Business Tax Benefits<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Small Business planning will be critical probably through December 2025. Since the <strong>\u201cTax Cuts and Job Act of 2017\u201d<\/strong> went into effect, there are new rules, some bad, some good.\u00a0For example, a positive is that business deductions on net income went up to 20%, on qualified small business income. On the flip side, travel and entertainment deductions have changed and deductions to employees may end up on a W-2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/bakersfield-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2018\/06\/Opportunity-Knocks-May-Newsletter-1.pdf\">Continue Reading Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carol Bennett Do you want to sell your business now? The new tax laws are already helping small businesses save money.\u00a0Buyers on the other hand are keeping a close eye on the interest rates for loans.\u00a0Consider where we are with the economic growth and recent world affairs that continue to change, especially in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":11664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opportunity Knocks for Small Business Owner!! - Sunbelt of Bakersfield<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeltnetwork.com\/bakersfield-ca\/opportunity-knocks-for-small-business-owner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Opportunity Knocks for Small Business Owner!! 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