Tax Center
Forewarned is cheaper.
This is the reference shelf: the deadlines that actually run the year, the small-business basics nobody explains until they're expensive, and the official sites worth bookmarking. Plain English throughout. When the reading raises a question, the phone still works.
What's on the shelf.
Two guides, kept current, written for people with somewhere else to be.
Business Taxes
Entity types, quarterly estimates, payroll, the deductions people forget, and the recordkeeping that makes all of it defensible. The paperwork side of running a business, explained without the lecture.
Useful Links
The official sites — the IRS, California's Franchise Tax Board, Nevada's Department of Taxation, Social Security — collected in one place, so you never have to gamble on a search result again.
The calendar that matters.
The dates below run a standard calendar tax year. When one lands on a weekend or federal holiday, it slides to the next business day — and California and Nevada keep calendars of their own. When in doubt, call before the date, not after.
- January 15Final estimated tax payment for the year that just ended. The last quarter always sneaks up; this is your warning.
- January 31W-2s to your employees and most 1099s to the people you paid. If you ran payroll or hired contractors, this one's yours.
- March 15Calendar-year S corporation and partnership returns — or their extensions. A month before the famous deadline, and routinely forgotten.
- April 15The big one. Individual returns, calendar-year C corporation returns, the first estimated payment of the new year, and usually the last call for prior-year IRA contributions.
- June 15Second estimated payment. Yes, it's only two months after the first. Nobody said the schedule was fair.
- September 15Third estimated payment, plus extended S corporation and partnership returns come due.
- October 15Extended individual returns. The end of the road — an extension moves the paperwork, not the money.
- December 31Last day for most moves that count toward the current year. After midnight, the year is what it is.
Missed one anyway? Don't go quiet. The cure for a missed deadline is movement — file, pay what you can, and call us. Penalties grow in the dark.
Don't memorize any of this.
Our clients don't track these dates. We track them, and we call before they arrive — that's the arrangement. Ten minutes on the phone and you'll know whether it's a fit.
Rather write it down first? The short version is fine — send it through the contact page and we'll call you back.