The Business Views » spending profit http://www.thebusinessviews.com Our views on business Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Spending the Business Profits Before Year End http://www.thebusinessviews.com/business/spending-the-business-profits-before-year-end/ http://www.thebusinessviews.com/business/spending-the-business-profits-before-year-end/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:13:00 +0000 bus44 http://www.thebusinessviews.com/business/spending-the-business-profits-before-year-end/ Money in hand One of the things that many business owners do at this time of year is to look at their books and determine how much taxes they need to pay.  It is a great time of year to see how much profit that your operations have made and determine if you should spend some of that money to minimize your tax burden.

In the case of our business, we had a lackluster year and though we did make money, we sure didn’t make a whole lot.  Unfortunately our customers didn’t spend as much thanks to the recession, so though we were profitable, we sure didn’t do too well.

So we found ourselves in a position where we could either pay taxes on the little profit that we did make, or upgrade some of our equipment to put us in a better position to serve our customers next year.

We decided that upgrading some of our equipment was a better business choice, so we purchased a couple of new computers as well as bought a secure digital high capacity card for our digital camera.

Hopefully our business will do better next year and we will have to pay some taxes.  Even though many people complain about them, needing to pay taxes is a sign of success.

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